Survivors return to Auschwitz determined to share their stories
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2015
What kept you alive? Did your non-Jewish friends reject you? Could you ever forgive?
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holocaust
Politics, Putin cast shadow over Auschwitz liberation anniversary
Jewish Journal
January 27, 2015
When they announced the ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Polish officials insisted that at this year’s event, “the eyes of the world will be focused” on about 300 Holocaust survivors whose presence Tuesday at the former Nazi death camp near Krakow may be the last gathering of its sort.
Witnesses to Kristallnacht
Jane Ulman
November 6, 2014
On a Wednesday evening in late 1938, the sounds of broken glass shattered the quiet streets of Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland.
Hatred of Jews remains strong, Netanyahu and Peres tell Yom Hashoah rite
Jewish Journal
April 8, 2013
The hatred of Jews is still strong more than 70 years after the Holocaust began, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres said at the national Yom Hashoah ceremony at Yad Vashem.
A Turkish Muslim perspective on Yom HaShoah
Jewish Journal
April 8, 2013
When people of reason and conscience look back on the subject of Shoah (otherwise known as the Holocaust) today, it is common to hear questions like: \”How could a nation of philosophers, composers of classical music, technology, poets, in this seat of the Enlightenment itself, suddenly give vent to savagery not seen since the Dark Ages? How could such dreadful, inhumane impulses seize every apparatus of a nation and cause it to commit such atrocities?\”
Survivor initiative to thrive on common cents
Jewish Journal
April 3, 2013
Sixty-eight years after being liberated from the horrors of the Holocaust, many aging survivors are living another nightmare — poverty without hope.
Reliving the Holocaust
Jane Ulman
April 3, 2013
\”They’re going to come with the dogs. They’re going to start beating me.” Pola Lipnowski spoke in Yiddish, an expression of sheer terror on her face. She turned to her daughter, Hendel Schwartz, for protection.
Spielberg directs kids to ‘iWitness’ history
Tom Tugend
March 7, 2013
In a video, a Holocaust survivor remembers how he had to kill the family dog as he faced deportation to a wartime ghetto, where there would not be enough food for humans and none for animals.
Germany should award pensions to ghetto survivors, Jewish body says
Jewish Journal
March 3, 2013
Germany\’s main Jewish body is calling on the German government and parliament to step in on behalf of survivors of World War II ghettoes who have not yet received a German pension for their work.
Survivor: Harry Magid
Jane Ulman
February 27, 2013
\”The Jews are going to be taken from the ghetto and killed.”
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