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Thanks to viral video, Holocaust survivor gets wish to sing at Detroit Tigers game
Jewish Journal
April 8, 2016
An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor will sing the American national anthem at a Detroit Tigers baseball game, after her granddaughter circulated a video of her that went viral online.
Survivor: Josef Kreitenberg
Jane Ulman
April 15, 2015
As the transport from Tacova, Czechoslovakia (then called Tecso, Hungary), pulled up to the Birkenau platform in late May 1944, the doors of the cattle cars slammed open.
Survivor: Jean Greenstein
Jane Ulman
February 4, 2015
At 5 o’clock one morning in April 1944, Jean Greenstein — ne Egon Grünstein — heard the bell ringing at the front gate of his family’s home in Velky Sevlus, Czechoslovakia
At 105, ‘British Schindler’ celebrated in Prague
Jewish Journal
October 28, 2014
A 105-year-old man known as the “British Oskar Schindler” — having saved hundreds of Jewish children from the Nazis — received the Czech Republic’s highest honor Tuesday.
Survivor: Frank Schiller
Jane Ulman
April 23, 2014
In October 1941, Frank Schiller, his parents, brother and grandmother were ordered to report to Prague’s Exhibition Hall.
Survivors to mark 75th anniversary of Kindertransport
Tom Tugend
November 20, 2013
On the evening of Dec. 2, a small group of elderly men and women, some with their children and grandchildren, will gather at a Burbank mall to mark the 75th anniversary of a heartbreaking, yet uplifting, episode of the Nazi era, known as the Kindertransport (in English, Children’s Transport).
German trade union leader opposes West Bank boycott
Jewish Journal
November 11, 2013
German trade union leader Michael Sommer vowed to stand up to unionists who want to boycott goods made in West Bank Jewish settlements.
Songs of hope at Auschwitz
Jewish Journal
August 14, 2013
When Judith Schneiderman was 14, she was taken from Hungary and sent to Auschwitz. It seemed that all hope was lost — that is, until she opened her mouth.
Schindler factory plans up for sale
Jewish Journal
August 8, 2013
A New Hampshire company is auctioning off a set of documents related to Oskar Schindler.
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