Israel stops to remember victims of Holocaust
Jewish Journal
April 8, 2013
Israel came to a standstill as a siren sounded for two minutes in memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
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Shoah: Breadcrumbs of life
David Suissa
April 4, 2013
The Holocaust is really too big and too dark to fathom. It’s larger than life, larger than death, even larger than evil. The human mind can’t quite comprehend an evil that wants to destroy a whole race of humans — and succeeds in destroying about a third of it.
The last generation
Jewish Journal
April 4, 2013
All my adult life, I have felt a burden to live more than one life. I am a child of survivors and a mourner of many who did not survive. In 1944, my grandparents and more than 700 others were murdered in a little-known massacre in Kremnicka, Slovakia.
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.
What happened at Belzec
Jewish Journal
April 3, 2013
In the summer of 1993, my father and I visited the site of the extermination camp of Belzec in eastern Poland, where my grandparents were among half a million Jews murdered by the Nazis in 1942.
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.
Rescuers of the ‘50 Children’
Gerri Miller
April 3, 2013
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honor those lost in the Shoah and the few who were saved through circumstance, luck or the efforts of courageous individuals. People like Oskar Schindler, Raoul Wallenberg and the Bielski brothers immediately come to mind, having been the subjects of books and movies such as “Schindler’s List” and “Defiance.”
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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