Holocaust

• How Did a Chinese Diplomat Save 10,000 Jews in WWII

  In this video “How Did a Chinese Diplomat Save 10,000 Jews in WW2? | Unpacked” you will learn about how a man with no Jewish ancestry was able to do so much for those who did. Although he did a lot to help the Jewish people

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• Israel Honors Chiune Sempo Sugihara for Saving Jews

  Israel named one of its streets after Chiune Sempo Sugihara. Chiune was a Japanese diplomat who was very helpful in saving the lives of many Jews during World War II. (“Israel Names Street after Japanese Diplomat…”, 2016) We can learn

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• Martin Kapel: Germany, Poland and England

  Martin Kapel was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1930. As the son of Polish parents, Martin was legally classed as a Polish citizen by the nationality laws of both Poland and Germany. This fact was to become significant in Martin's

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• Nuremberg Symposium: Intro to Nuremberg Laws

  In 1933 the Nazi party seized control of the government in Germany. Overnight Germany was no longer a free democratic country, but had become a police state.

• Rescue of Children

  During the Holocaust, countless Jewish organizations and individuals worldwide did what they could to save their brethren. While these rescue efforts were initiated by Jews, most would have had little success without the assistance of

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• Rescued by an Egyptian in Berlin

  Dr. Mohamed Helmy was born in Khartoum in 1901 to Egyptian parents. In 1922 Helmy went to Germany to study medicine and settled in Berlin. After he completed his studies, he went to work at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, but was

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• Righteous among the Nations - Corrie Ten Boom

  At Least There Is Hope for a Tree . . . There is a young carob tree that isn’t quite leafy enough to offer much shade yet, but its space along the Avenue of the Righteous offers visitors another type of (dis)comfort: reflection.

• Righteous Among the Nations: John Weidner

  John Weidner was born in Belgium but moved to France when the Nazis invaded western Europe.

• Senator Rick Scott Donates Portion of Salary to Florida Holocaust Museum

  The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg FL proclaimed:

  We’re proud to announce that Senator Rick Scott and Mrs. Ann Scott have chosen to donate a portion of his quarterly salary to The Florida Holocaust Museum in memory

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• Sir Nicholas Winton

  Man saves hundreds, and now unknowingly is sitting among them.

• Sir Nicholas Winton: The Life of a Holocaust Hero

  Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds from the Nazis, died in 2015 at age 106.

• Sophie Scholl

  Two Lutheran German siblings, Sophie and Hans Scholl, grew up with the typically

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• The Forgotten Holocaust in North Africa

  The word holocaustis derived from the Greek holokauston, a translation of the Hebrew word ‘olah meaning a burnt sacrifice offered whole to

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• The Muslim Country that Saved Jews During the Holocaust

  Turkey, a Muslim country, surprisingly did more to spare European Jewry from the Holocaust than the United States or Great Britain, saving the lives of ...

• The Story of Adolfo Kaminsky

  Adolfo Kaminsky was a courageous member of the French Resistance who dedicated three decades of his life to forging identity papers – illegally, of course - to help save the lives of the Jewish people who

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• The Survivor of Babi Yar Massacre

  David Ayzenberg was a Jewish man born in Kiev, the capital city of Soviet Ukraine, in 1926

• Twin Holocaust Survivors Describe Arriving at Auschwitz

  Identical twin sisters Iudit Barnea and Lia Huber (nées Tchengar)were transported to Auschwitz in 1944 where they suffered the infamous medical experiments of Josef Mengele. 

• Why Did the Mossad Hire a Nazi Assassin?

  In the 1960s, Israel's Mossad hired a former (and unapologetic) Nazi to prevent Egypt from developing a missile program with the help of former Nazi scientists. This sensitive operation required the help of an expert in psychological

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• Why the Holocaust Was Possible

  Contrary to the views of some authors, anti-Semitism alone was not responsible for the Holocaust.

• Yad Vashem

  Almost 12 years ago, Youtuber Nina N (@NinaNowa) posted a video documenting her visit to Yad Vashem the year before on Yom HaShoah 2011.