This is Lieutenant Colonel Sam Sachs, a Jewish-American WWII veteran who survived the invasion of Normandy (D-Day) and helped liberate a concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Born in North Dakota in 1915, Sachs served as a U.S. Army officer with the 325th Glider Infantry, 82nd Airborne Division. On June 6, […]
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🇺🇸 #memorialday Normandy’s largest WWII cemetery is home to 9,387 graves at Colleville-sur-Mer, 149 are marked as Jewish graves. Instead of crosses, these burial sites bear marble Stars of David ✡️ Source: @stenhankewitz — at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial
Today in Jerusalem, Russian-Israeli WWII veterans marched to celebrate victory over the Nazis in World War II, 74 years ago. Source: Sharon Gabay – Photographer
CONDOLENCES: Georges Loinger. Loinger was born in Strasbourg in 1910 and was best known as a French Resistance hero having saved 350 Jewish children during WWII. Loinger said that he used to train the children to run before telling them they were going to play ball near the border. “I […]
During WWII, Jews in Budapest were brought to the edge of the Danube, ordered to remove their shoes, and shot, falling into the water below. 60 pairs of iron shoes now line the river’s bank, a ghostly memorial to the victims. ‘Shoes on the Danube Promenade’ by Can Togay and […]
The Royal Family posted: The Queen presents 101 year old Lieutenant Colonel Mordaunt Cohen with an #MBE at today’s Investiture Ceremony, held at Buckingham Palace. Lt Col Cohen received his MBE for his services to Second World War Education. Every year around 25 Investiture’s are held by Members of The […]
?? #memorialday Normandy’s largest WWII cemetery is home to 9,387 graves at Colleville-sur-Mer, 149 are marked as Jewish graves. Instead of crosses, these burial sites bear marble Stars of David ✡️ Source: hankewitz.com
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František Bubák owned an apartment in Theresienstadt but was forced to leave by the Nazis in order to make room for thousands of Jewish prisoners. After the war, Bubák moved back to the property. Sometime later, he was doing some renovations, which included taking down a kitchen wall. As the […]
“Pogroms were quite common in Zaporozhe, Ukraine during those years. When they entered the synagogue, they found an old, pious-looking man deep in prayer. They grabbed him by his beard and dragged him through the streets of the town.” “Four days later, he died from the wounds. His family […]
“In the center of this photo is my amazing grandfather, whose family left Poland for New York when he was ten years old. At 21, he was drafted into the Army where he fought in every major battle of World War II – with the exception of D-Day. His service […]
My grandfather was born in 1926 in a small Jewish village called Saroki back then it was a territory of Romania which eventually was renamed Moldova and became part of the Soviet Union. When WWII started my grandfather was only 15 when he was given the task of evacuating his […]
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Rina Pearl Zakaj was 10 years old when WWII began. She passed through the concentration camp (Ukraine) and the Warsaw ghetto. After the war, she went on to Israel where she fought for it’s independence. Today, 70 years after the Holocaust, Rina has three grandchildren that all serve in the […]
“My grandfather on the right Aaron Moskowitz served in the IDF post WW2 in the war of Independence in 1948. Looking at these young men with smiles on their faces, one would never know what they endured. #survivors #עםישראלחי#lonesoldier @humansofjudaism” Source: Sara Leibowitz
What a great addition to the game pile! Did you know: In 1936, Parker Brothers began licensing the game for sale outside the United States. In 1941, the British Secret Intelligence Service had John Waddington Ltd., the licensed manufacturer of the game in the United Kingdom, create a special edition […]
France on Monday officially returned a 16th-century portrait, attributed to Joos van Cleve or his son, to the descendants of Hertha and Henry Bromberg, a German-Jewish couple who were forced to sell the work of art in Paris when they fled Germany before World War II. Source: The New York […]
Although Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photo quickly became an iconic symbol of the euphoria marking the end of WWII, for decades no one knew the identify of either the nurse or the sailor pictured nor did the two know about its existence. It wasn’t until 2012 that author Lawrence Verria conclusively proved […]
