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…
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…
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…
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.…
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 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…