Holocaust Survivor's Powerful Story

Through Children's Eyes

Diary portions illuminate a view of the world seen through the eyes and lives of Jewish children during the holocaust.

Rev Chris Edmonds/Jewish Leader Summit 2016

Pastor Chris Edmonds of Piney Grove Baptist Church on Maryville, Tennessee, is the son of the World War II hero, Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, who saved nearly 200 Jewish prisoners of war from a…

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Rev Chris Edmonds/Jewish Leader Summit 2016

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 Woman That Saved 100 Abandoned Orphans

Krystyna’s Story

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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Krystyna’s Story

Does Nothing Remain? Holocaust Survivors' First Moments of Liberation

In this video Dr. Na’ama Shik provides an introduction to the complexity of liberation and the physical and emotional state of the survivors during the early days following the horrific atrocities.

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Does Nothing Remain? Holocaust Survivors' First Moments of Liberation

The Final Solution

The “Final Solution” of the Jewish Question refers to the German Nazis’ plan to address the “Jewish problem” through systematic relocation and later extermination of Jews during World War II. The…

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The Final Solution

I Lived Through Kristallnacht

Eve Kugler's family lost everything in the 1938 Nazi pogrom of Kristallnacht.

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I Lived Through Kristallnacht

Remembering Lucy Baum

A song about Rosalie Schiff, who lost her family in Belzec Concentration camp and stayed up at night repeating her sister's name, Lucia, who was only 14.

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Remembering Lucy Baum

The Lack of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust

Many factors made Jewish resistance to the Nazis during the Holocaust both difficult and dangerous.

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The Lack of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust

Holocaust Liberation

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Holocaust Liberation

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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Helena Sitkowska

Holocaust Survivors - Liberated but Not Free

"We are free now, but we don't know how to begin our free but unfortunate lives." Dr. Zalman Grinberg

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Holocaust Survivors - Liberated but Not Free

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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The Holocaust: Can it Happen Again and What Was Learned

Why the Holocaust Was Possible

Contrary to the views of some authors, anti-Semitism alone was not responsible for the Holocaust.

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Why the Holocaust Was Possible

Whose Child are You?

Holocaust survivor Josef Herschel tells of the horrific events of World War II and how his parents provided for his future in the midst of the most murderous discrimination of modern times.

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Whose Child are You?