WWII Holocaust Heroes - Zookeeper's Jan and Antonina Zabinski

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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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Holocaust Remembrance Day Tel Aviv, Israel

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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…

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Holocaust Glossary

The following is intended to provide a frame of reference for discussion. Anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism is a prejudice and/or discrimination against Jews. Anti-Semitism can be based on hatred against…

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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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Surviving with a Muslim Identity in Warsaw

Jews living under false identity during the Holocaust faced enormous challenges. The fact that Jewish males are circumcised and bear the mark of their identity on their body presented an additional…

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How My Grandmother Survived the Holocaust

Surviving Auschwitz is always amazing enough even without being directly involved in attacking a German guard such as Guta did.

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Saved by Oscar Schindler

Testimony of holocaust survivor Sol Urbach.

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Buchenwald

Buchenwald was liberated by the US Third Army on April 11, 1945 at 3:15pm.

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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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Holocaust Survivor's Home Burnt in Arson Attack

Arsonist burns down holocaust survivor's home

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This Teacher Outsmarted Hitler and His Nazi Regime

In Nazi Germany, when bullying, discrimination, and violence become everyday realities for Jewish children, Leonore Goldschmidt defies the system and opens her own private school for Jewish youth.

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Beit Shalom Congregation in Kiev Honors the Memory of Holocaust victims

This year on January 27, the world commemorated not only the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, but also the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

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Germans Restore 1936 High Jump Record

NEW YORK – Gretel Bergmann matched a German high jump record on June 30, 1936.Two weeks later, the 5 feet, 3 inches she jumped in Stuttgart, Germany, was all but obliterated and she was kicked off…

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