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Holocaust survivor shares story of those who hid her from the Nazis
The year was 1940 when the Nazis were rounding up Jewish women and children. Monique’s mother and father decided to give up their daughter to a Catholic family so she could have a better chance at survival. 9/14/16 (Monique Ritter) LAS VEGAS (KSNV News3LV) — Monique Ritter’s story is one of incredible sacrifice and love. […]
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U.S. begins paying out reparations from France to Holocaust survivors and their heirs
The State Department has paid or approved 90 claims for a total $11 million in reparations from France to former World War II prisoners who were carried to Nazi death camps in French trains — the first French reparations paid to Holocaust survivors living in the United States, officials said Thursday. The payments apply to Holocaust […]
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Seeking Holocaust reconciliation in Lithuania, from Los Angeles
The Museum of Genocide Victims in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, occupies a stately stone building on a large, forested park in the city’s center. It is notably not a Holocaust museum. To find the Holocaust Exposition, look for a small, clapboard wooden building on a narrow side street. Instead, the museum commemorates atrocities more […]
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‘If I Sleep for an Hour, 30 People Will Die’
The Forger: Video As a teenager, Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of lives by forging passports to help children flee the Nazis. He spent his life helping others escape atrocities around the world. PARIS — It’s 1944, in occupied Paris. Four friends spend their days in a narrow room atop a Left Bank apartment building. The […]
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Holocaust survivor reunited with son of her saviour
Mala Tribich was 14 when Dr Rosensaft saved her life through an act of kindness and 70-years on, she continues to pay tribute A Holocaust survivor has spoken of her joy at being reunited with the son of the doctor whom she credits with saving her life. Mala Tribich was a 14-year-old Jewish prisoner at […]
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Dolls snatched from Jewish sisters during Holocaust preserved by three generations of French family
PARIS — On a bleak February day in 1944, a French gendarme snatched a pair of dolls from two Jewish sisters about to be deported to Auschwitz, and flung them to the ground. Denise and Micheline Levy were 10 and nine when they were bundled out of their school in the eastern village of Gemeaux, […]
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Irena Sendler: The Holocaust heroine who saved 2500 Jewish children from Nazi evil
A VIDEO paying tribute to an astonishing nurse who “declared war on Hitler” and saved more than 2,500 Jewish children from the grasp of the evil Nazi regime has gone viral. Irena Sendler, who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1910, has been hailed as one of the Second World War’s great heroes for her […]
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French Holocaust survivor seeks honors for his Rosh Hashanah rescuers
Jacques Stuzalft teams up with local historian in bid to recognize French railway workers who saved dozens of children from Nazis on eve of Jewish New Year in 1942 JTA — For Jews all over the world, the High Holidays are a time for closure and new beginnings. Not for Jacques Stuzalft, an 84-year-old Holocaust […]
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A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR’S VIOLIN FINDS A NEW HOME
I n the spring of 2014, the filmmaker Kahane Cooperman was driving to work, listening to WQXR, the classical-music station, when she heard a promotion for a donation drive: the station was collecting used instruments to be given to schoolchildren. The promo mentioned one violin in particular that had been donated by a ninety-one-year-old Holocaust […]
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80-year-old dad who survived Holocaust gets ultimate surprise by John McEnroe
When Les Held was 6 years old, he and his family were sent to a concentration camp. But each time the Nazis tried to kill him, he cheated death. Despite going through those hardships as a little boy, Held went on to live a life filled with optimism and joy. “My dad is amazing,” Les’ […]
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