Hitler and the Mufti of Jerusalem

Holocaust Remembrance

"It should not be forgotten. There was no reason for what was done to the people in this world."

My First Kaddish

On March 19, 1942, I was sent by the Judenrat (the Jewish Council) to build underground storage facilities. Our group was led to a bleak, desolate place outside the city where a tall German with a…

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and annihilation of more than 6 million Jews as a central act of state by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. Although millions of…

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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…

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Oprah Interviews Elie Wiesel at Auschwitz

Back in 2006, the Oprah Winfrey Network honored the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust by interviewing and featuring Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and New York Times bestselling…

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Raoul Wallenberg

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the capture of Raoul Wallenberg by the Russians.

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Rose Lipszyc

Rose Lipszyc was born to a Jewish family in Poland in 1929, and lived a life of relative peace, stability, and childhood innocence until the Nazis deported her family to the ghettos where her parents…

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Roland Levi Holocaust Survivor Testimony

Join us for a live presentation by Roland Levi telling his story of surviving the Holocaust when he was 5 years old. Tuesday April 21, 7:00 PM ET liverstream.There will be time for questions and…

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Refik Veseli

In the fall of 1943, Refik Veseli, a sixteen-year-old Albanian photography student, received permission from his parents to hide Mosa Mandil and his family, Jewish refugees from Yugoslavia, in the…

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Gad Elbaz, Dudu Fisher Feat Saul Dreier - Change the World

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…

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Arek Hersh

"I was coming out from the school and a few Polish children shouted me "Go back to Palestine". My parents were born, my grandparents were born in Poland and I was born in Poland, a Polish subject,…

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Hidden Children

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…

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Rudolf Hoess, former Auschwitz Commandant, Testifying at Nuremberg Trial, April 15, 1946)

Rudolf Hoess, former Auschwitz Commandant, Testifying at Nuremberg Trial, April 15, 1946

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Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

On January 27, the free world celebrated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz by the Soviet army.

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The Jews in Poland

The Jews had established a physical presence in Poland back to the days of the first century, and it was an important central trade and commercial route for business.

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