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96 year old WWII veteran receives salute and applause at a recent New York Yankees game. Watch until the end
Lieutenant Colonel Sam Sachs
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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Normandy’s largest WWII cemetery
#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.
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
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 […]
Shoes on the Danube Promenade
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 […]
Today at Buckingham Palace
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 […]
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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: hankewitz.com
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The Hidden Synagogue of Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czech Republic was discovered only recently and here is the amazing story behind it.
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 […]
“It was around the time of the First World War,” said Miriam, “when a group of evil bandits came to town.”
“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 […]
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but I think this one is worth about six million.
“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 Mikhail Lubarsky who fought the nazis in WWII currently lives in Brighton Beach Brooklyn. He’s 94 years old and was at my house this past Thursday for Thanksgiving and sang the yiddish song “Le Chaim”.
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 […]
Two million people gathered in Times Square to celebrate the end of World War II, 1945.
Source: History In Pictures
Proud Grandmother
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 […]
“The first lone soldiers in Israel were the young holocaust survivors. Cleaning out my parents house I came across this old gem.”
“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
COMING SOON: Jerusalem Monopoly
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 […]
Artwork Returned to Rightful Owners
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 […]
CONDOLENCES: The nurse in the iconic “V-J Day in Times Square” photograph, a Jewish refugee from Austria named Greta Zimmer Friedman, passed away last week at the age of 92
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 […]