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Looking for the light in the dark: A Holocaust survivor’s story
Shimon Redlich, 81, sees his childhood through a complicated prism – through the interplay between Jewish, Ukrainian and Polish relations in wartime Brzezany. As a Jew who survived the Holocaust in the formerly Polish, now Ukrainian town, Redlich’s own memories can only provide the angle of the Jewish axis. But as a historian, he felt […]
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Germany Confronts, in Unique Exhibit, Its ‘Holocaust of the Bullets’
BERLIN — In this city laden with history, they were just two events recalling a heinous past: one, the opening of a public exhibition calling for a reckoning with a particularly brutal period of the Nazis’ rule; and the other, a modest remembrance of one Holocaust victim. Both channeled questions ever present here: Why did […]
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Portraits Depicting Siblings of South Jersey Holocaust Survivors Part of Exhibit at Stockton
Galloway, N.J. – Distant memories and faded photographs are now more vivid and permanent for seven South Jersey Holocaust survivors whose siblings, murdered by the Nazis, were artistically rendered as 5-foot charcoal portraits drawn by international artist Manfred Bockelmann. He drew the survivors’ siblings from photographs provided by the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center […]
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The photo that alerted the world
Dr Michael Siegel, an eminent 50-year-old German Jewish lawyer, is shown in the photo, bruised, barefoot, trousers ripped, being marched by Nazi ‘brown-shirt’ auxiliary police. The sign hanging from his neck was scrawled with the message, ‘Ich bin Jude, aber ich werde mich nie mehr bei der Polizei beschweren’ – ‘I am a Jew, but […]
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MOTL Australia: Feeling the Jewish Journey
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Stories from Holocaust prisoners forced to work in the gas chambers should be heard, not silenced
On October 7 1944, a group of prisoners in Auschwitz-Birkenau took up tools and stones and attacked their SS guards. Some attempted to flee, others ran into a nearby building and set it on fire. Another section of their group stationed some half mile away killed a kapo, or prisoner-overseer, broke out of their building, […]
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Women who escaped Nazi Germany reunited after “six degrees of separation”
Two women who escaped from Nazi Germany in World War II have discovered a new connection. Their separate family histories are told in stories and documents that come from a time when communities and countries were torn apart. But more than 80 years into life, their remarkable reunion was an unexpected discovery for the two […]
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Raoul Wallenberg Officially Declared Dead by Sweden, 71 Years After Disappearance
Swedish authorities have formally pronounced World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg dead, 71 years after he disappeared in Hungary. The Swedish diplomat, credited with helping at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews escape the Holocaust, is believed to have died in Soviet captivity, though the time and circumstances of his death remain unresolved. The Swedish Tax Authority, […]
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Two Holocaust survivors and their ‘wish of a lifetime’
WASHINGTON (WUSA9) – They called it, “the wish of a lifetime.” Two elderly survivors of the Holocaust had always dreamed of a chance to visit the museum dedicated to the memories of their murdered families. Now Albert Maidenbaum, 89, and Esther Maidenbaum, 80, have finally fulfilled that dream. On Friday, a non-profit called the “Wish […]
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French student credits Holocaust survivor for changing his life in new film
When Leon Zyguel visited a French classroom eight years ago to tell the story of how he survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald, he probably hoped the students would listen and remember. But Zyguel, who died in 2015, got more than he expected from the unruly students at Lycee Leon Blum in Creteil, a diverse Paris suburb. […]
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