10 Little Known Facts About the Holocaust

Michael 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…

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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…

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The Perfect Aryan Baby

The "perfect Aryan baby", as chosen by the Nazis themselves in the 30s, was a sweet little angel with a compromising secret.

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Edith Goldberg

Edith Goldberg spent her early life in Teschenmoschel, a small village near Kaiserslautern, Germany, where she was born in 1928. Her family were farmers living in a small village of about 200 people.…

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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…

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Leica and the Jews

The Leica is the pioneer 35mm camera. It is a German product - precise, minimalist, and utterly efficient.

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New Study Reveals 42,500 Nazi Sites Operated Across Europe

A comprehensive new study has revealed that the Nazis operated no fewer than 42,500 sites across Europe as part of their killing machine, leaving Holocaust historians shocked yet again by the scale…

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Dachau and Yad Vashem

Dachau, Munich Area, Germany: The barracks and lavatories were drab grays and browns, concrete and bricks, lifeless, seemingly unfit for human use. One could still run fingers over the “ovens” and…

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Holocaust Love Story

A Florida couple who met in a concentration camp later found each other again during a blind date.

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Nearly 70 Years on, Holocaust Survivor Reunites with "Righteous" Rescuer

67 years had passed since they last saw each other, Wladyslawa Dudziak was flown to New York last week from Poland to meet with Rozia Beiman whom she had saved from the Nazis more than a half-century…

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Holocaust Survivors Finally Get Bar Mitzvahed - 70 Years Later

A unique Bar Mitzvah ceremony took place at the Kotel Monday. The ceremony was not for thirteen year old kids, but for a group of senior citizens – the youngest of them 80 years of age – who were in…

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From Overseas Visitors, a Growing Demand to Study the Holocaust

JERUSALEM — The students were spared nothing. There were sessions on Nazi disputes over how to murder the Jews; propaganda art in the Third Reich; encounters with survivors; a history of…

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Half the World Doesn't Know About the Holocaust

A shocking new study across 100 countries showed that 1 in 4 people are anti-Semitic!

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Florida Holocaust Museum to Exhibit Hess Fine Art Donation of Important Artist Emanuel Glicenstein Romano

ST. PETERSBURG, FL - June 11, 2013/ - A few years ago, the Florida Holocaust Museum accessioned a painting by Social Realist Emanuel Glicen Romano (1897 – 1984), entitled "War Scene," which was…

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