Shoah (Holocaust)

“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.

As holocaust survivors are dying, it is important that we never forget.

Eva was one of a pair of twins who survived the horrific experiments done on twins by Dr. Mengele during the holocaust.

Even today, no one knows how many Jewish children were hidden during the war. The one most people know is Anne Frank. But there were many others, perhaps as many as 100,000, who lived their own nightmares.

The survival of these hidden children depended mostly on their parents' actions. Parents needed the means, the will, the determination and the courage to move the family into the forbidden, Christian world.

Ted Pearce wrote this song as the theme song for the March of Remembrance.