Historic!
Watch this unprecedented event, Thursday January 23, 2020. Over 45 world leaders and Heads of State gather at Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem for the 5th World Holocaust Forum, under the banner: “Remembering the Holocaust, Fighting Antisemitism.” The forum includes addresses from a number of world leaders, short video […]
Meaningful View
Pictured here is an exit at Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem. The top image is a look back at the memorial. The bottom image is when you turn around and exit to a view of the city of Jerusalem #AmYisraelChai American Society for Yad Vashem
On This Day: August 30th
On this day, August 30, 1942, pastor André Trocmé urged the congregants in his overflowing church to “Do the will of God, not of men”. When the deportations began in France in summer 1942, he urged his congregation to give shelter to any Jew who should ask for it. “These […]
I waited 65 years to give her a kiss.
#nationalsiblingday ♥️ After decades of believing that most of her immediate family had perished in the Holocaust, Hilda Shlick (née Glasberg) was reunited with her brother Simon Glasberg in 2006. The family was separated when the Nazis invaded their hometown of Chernowitz, Romania in 1941. Hilda and her older sister […]
Simcha Horowitz.
Holocaust survivor Simcha Horowitz holding his great-grandson Azi Rifkin. Simcha survived Auschwitz and became one of the founders of the Israeli Air Force. Source: American Society for Yad Vashem Young Leadership Associates
Yad Vashem’s Young Leadership Takes Holocaust Education to a New Audience
Click here to read: Yad Vashem’s Young Leadership Takes Holocaust Education to a New Audience by Cindy Grosz The Young Leadership Associates Chairpersons are Rachel Shnay and Josh Gelnick. Many young “celebrity bloggers” like Humans Of Judaism and Jewish Chick attended. Reality star, best-selling author and Jewish activist, Siggy Flicker, was […]
Yaakov Weksler: At 35 He Discovered He is Jewish, Today He Celebrates His Bar Mitzvah
Last week, Yaakov Weksler (b. 1943) had his Bar Mitzvah in the Yad Vashem Synagogue. A former Polish Catholic priest, Yaakov (formerly Romuald Waszkinel) discovered at age 35 that he was in fact the son of Jews killed in the Holocaust. In the hopes of saving their infant son’s life, […]
Double Birthday
When you turn 39 the same day as your grandfather turns 93. Happy Birthday to Holocaust survivor Edward Mosberg who shares his birthday with grandson Barry Levine. #mazaltov Source: American Society for Yad Vashem Young Leadership Associates
Visit to Yad Vashem, November 2018
When planning this trip to Israel, it was important to prioritize a visit to Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem. Yad Vashem is Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. I invited along my incredible friend JamieGeller.com and her mother to share in the experience. Having been there […]
Silent Heroes
THANK YOU: 94-year-old holocaust survivor, Walter Frankenstein, delivers a speech, during a ceremony at the memorial ‘Stille Helden’ (Silent Heroes) in Berlin. One of the most important tasks of Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem is to convey the gratitude of the state of Israel and the Jewish people to […]
Places to See in Israel
As posted on Humans of Judaism’s Instagram story, I asked and you answered. Here are the top responses (in no particular order):
Reverend André Trocmé and his wife, Magda, Righteous among the Nations
On this day, August 30, 1942, pastor André Trocmé urged the congregants in his overflowing church to “Do the will of God, not of men”. When the deportations began in France in summer 1942, he urged his congregation to give shelter to any Jew who should ask for it. “These […]
Family Stone
Emma Glickman, a third generation survivor, is determined to learn her family’s story and share it with the world. Here she is holding a brick from her family’s hometown of Bzozówa, Poland, which she found on one of her visits to the town. The “T” on the brick indicates that […]
Andy Cohen visits Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem for the first time and his message is powerful.
Andy Cohen visits Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem for the first time and his message is powerful. “This is my first visit to Yad Vashem… It was absolutely incredible, unforgettable and very emotional, I’m completely overwhelmed. Even if you think you know, there are points of entry that will […]
This is the moment a 102-year-old Holocaust survivor meets the nephew he never knew he had.
Eliahu Pietruszka had grown up thinking his whole family had been killed in a Nazi death camp. Source: Channel 4 News
WOW!
Eliahu Pietruszka shuffled his 102-year-old body through the lobby of his retirement home toward a stranger he had never met and collapsed into him in a teary embrace. Then he kissed both cheeks of his visitor and in a frail, squeaky voice began blurting out greetings in Russian, a language […]
Children of the Holocaust Reunite
Tova Friedman, Sarah Ludwig, and Mike Bornstein are three of the children pictured in an iconic photograph from the liberation of Auschwitz on January 27th, 1945. Here the three survivors are seen holding that image together 72 years later in America. Source: American Society for Yad Vashem Young Leadership Associates
Yad Vashem: The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, is the ultimate source for Holocaust education, documentation and research. From the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem‘s integrated approach incorporates meaningful educational initiatives, groundbreaking research and inspirational exhibits. Its use of innovative technological platforms maximizes accessibility to the vast information in […]
“Walking slowly towards the end of the long, central hallway of the Yad VaShem Holocaust Museum I felt a sense of urgency.”
“After all this destruction my mind and heart decided I needed an answer before I could move on with my day, my trip, and my life. I tuned in more carefully to what the tour guide was saying. Every word she carefully articulated registered with me. I could feel her passion […]