The Incredible Story of the Hero who Volunteered to for Auschwitz

Martin Kapel: German, Poland and England

Martin was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1930. As the son of Polish parents Martin was legally classed as a Polish citizen by the nationality laws of both Poland and Germany. This fact was to become…

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Beyond Secret Tears

I was 4 years old and my brother was 5-1/2 years old when we were first separated from our parents and placed in a Protestant orphanage in Belgium. I was a depressed and confused child, but with the…

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Gas Chambers Discovered at Nazi Death Camp Sobibor

Holocaust Remembrance Day Tel Aviv, Israel

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This April, Yad Vashem hosted a seminar for history teachers from Arab communities in Israel. The seminar brought together over 140 teachers from across the country, who were welcomed by Yad Vashem's…

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102-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Meets Nephew for the First Time

An emotional reunion between 102-year-old Holocaust survivor Eliahu Pietruszka and his nephew Alexandre Pietruszka.

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Italy and the Holocaust: The Hidden Story

As told by Elizabeth Bettina in her 2009 book, "It Happened in Italy," the story of how her grandparents' small village of Campagna, Italy, helped save Jews during the Holocaust.

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I Survived the Holocaust Twin Experiments

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

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The Three Bullets of Francesca Mann

Francesca Mann met with absolute evil -- and she shot it.

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The Woman That Saved 100 Abandoned Orphans

Despite the death of her own daughter, Lena Küchler-Silberman dedicated her life to saving other Jewish children from the grips of death.

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The Holocaust: Can it Happen Again and What Was Learned

The Holocaust has a notorious past in which the idea and the act of genocide, as well as the word itself, came into clear view. Soon after, the crime of genocide was written into international law.…

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A Cherished Sweater: Kristine Keren's Green Sweater

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…

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Kristallnacht - The Great Moral test the World Failed

On the night of 9 November 1938, it became open. The destruction of European Jewry had begun with Kristallnacht, Night of the Broken Glass, the nation-wide pogrom against the Jews of Germany and…

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Holocaust Remembrance

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

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Children of the Holocaust

When Germany came under Nazi rule, the country adopted as official policy a racist ideology aimed at the destruction of the Jews.

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George Dilsizian

Georges Dilsizian fled to France in the end of the 19th Century because of the Turkish persecution of the Armenians. He got married and had thirteen children. His son André married Lea Albohair,…

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