Shoah (Holocaust)

Gad Elbaz, an Israeli Jewish singer who has recorded numerous well-known albums, and Dudu Fisher, Israeli cantor and theatre/stage performer who featured as Jean Valjean in the Broadway musical Les Misérables, have combined their artistic gifts and co-produced a powerful song inspired by the solemnity of the Holocaust and the plethora of sad events and deaths throughout the world today.

Gino Bartali, born in poverty to a Catholic family in Tuscany, grew up as an enthusiastic and passionate bicyclist.

For Kristine Chiger (later Kristine Keren post-war), then a 7-year old Jewish girl whose family was relocated to the Lvov ghetto, one piece of material comfort she clung to over the years was a minty green sweater gifted to her by her paternal grandmother just prior to the Nazi invasion of Poland.

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“In many cases, Hitler succeeded in wiping out total families,” Holocaust survivor Nat Shaffir said. “He did not succeed with me. I won, not him.”

The Babi Yar (translating from Ukranian as the “Old Woman’s Ravine”) massacre resulted in the machine-gunned deaths of nearly 34,000 Jews and other “undesirables” a few metro stops outside downtown Kiev, the capital city of Ukraine, in 1941.

A peculiar triangular pendant probably no longer than an inch in any direction, strikingly similar to a pendant known to be owned by world-known Holocaust victim Anne Frank, was recovered during archaeological excavations of the Sobibor Nazi death camp constructed in the Lublin district of eastern Poland, a camp believed to have murdered 170,000-200,000 Jewish people, Smithsonian Magazine revealed.

As the deportation of Jews from neighboring countries and territories was underway, the Jews of Bulgaria, a Nazi ally during WWII, were spared.