Before the Death Camps: Hitler's Hidden Holocaust
Before the death camps there were the killing fields - mass graves of executed men, women, and children.
Israel Honors Chiune Sempo Sugihara for Saving Jews
Israel named one of its streets after Chiune Sempo Sugihara. Chinue was a Japanese diplomat who was very helpful in saving the lives of many Jews during World War II. (“Israel Names Street after…
Helena Sitkowska
In 1939 Helena Sitkowska was a widow, a retired teacher, and a mother of two: 15-year-old Andrzej and 10-year-old Magda. The family lived in Bielany, a precinct of Warsaw. Before, in the 1930s, they…
Nazi Germany and the Jews Between 1933=1938
Yad Vashem, the world holocaust remembrance center, presents an innovative online course on the holocaust.
Dr Michal Majercik
Janka-Hetty Fisch of Bratislava was seven years old in 1939 when Slovakia became an "independent" state under the patronage of Nazi Germany. A series of anti-Jewish decrees were imposed on the Jewish…
History was Made Today in the Jewish Holy City of Hebron to Remember This!
History was made today in Israel with the Prime Minister, the President and the Speaker of Parliament all coming to Hebron to commemorate the first documented massacre in the Holyland, the Hebron…
This Will Live in Your Memories Forever
Not since 1938 had anyone in Nazi Germany dared to hold a Seder, the traditional religious feast marking the beginning of Passover, a Jewish holiday celebrating the Hebrews’ liberation from slavery…
Proudly Bearing Elders’ Scars, Their Skin Says “Never forget”
Livia Ravek was branded with the number 4559. Now her grandson, Daniel Philosoph, has the same tattoo. At right, three men who stood in the same line in Auschwitz have nearly consecutive numbers.…
Raoul Wallenberg
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the capture of Raoul Wallenberg by the Russians.
Holocaust Love Story
A Florida couple who met in a concentration camp later found each other again during a blind date.
Auschwitz Survivor Searches for Family
Menachem Bodner was a twin survivor of the infamous Mengele twin experiments.
Krystyna’s Story
On February 6, 1947, 11 1/2-year-old Krystyna Chiger was interviewed by Magistrate Maria Holender. During the war, she had been hidden with her family in the sewers of Lvov, a city in Poland. Here is…
Martin Kapel: German, Poland and England
Martin 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…
Reunion & Return: A Holocaust Survivor Reunites with his Father
Reunion & Return: A Holocaust Survivor Reunites with his Father
60 Minutes: Sir Nicholas Winton's Letter to FDR Found
60 Minutes: Sir Nicholas Winton's Letter to FDR Found
