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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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95-Year-Old Auschwitz Paramedic Charged in 3,681 Murders
A 95-year-old former paramedic at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz was charged in a German court on Monday with being an accessory to the murder of at least 3,681 people in a trial that is likely to be one of Germany’s last linked to the Holocaust. Hubert Zafke worked as a paramedic in Auschwitz from […]
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From Warsaw Ghetto to the Alt-right: The Women Fighting Holocaust Denial
Rokhl Oyerbakh and Deborah Lipstadt disrupted the male-dominated study of the Shoah. The re-energized Holocaust denial on show this election season gives the two upcoming films about them a depressing relevance. In April 1946, a memorial was held in Warsaw marking the third anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The only woman to appear on […]
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There’s A Reason This Holocaust Survivor Goes Back To His Synagogue In Greece Every Summer
“I promised myself that no matter where I wound up, I would return to Rhodes every summer to say ‘never again.’” “Never again,” 86 year-old Auschwitz survivor Sami Mondiano says, calmly yet firmly, as he addresses a group of tourists in the Kahal Shalom synagogue on the Greek island of Rhodes. Modiano and his wife of […]
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New Ken Burns film spotlights little-known Holocaust rescuers
(JTA) — In 1940, as he was being transported to safety in the lower deck of a ship, the Jewish author Lion Feuchtwanger asked Waitstill Sharp why the American Unitarian minister had bothered to rescue him from the Nazis. Sharp and his wife, Martha, had spent much of the previous two years smuggling Jews out of […]
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Joseph Harmatz, Who Led Jewish Plot to Kill Germans After World War II, Dies at 91
Imagine a real-life version of “Inglourious Basterds,” Quentin Tarantino’s quixotic movie about Jewish avengers in World War II — but in this case involving a plot by a band of refugees to kill millions of Germans just after the war by poisoning their water supply. The plot, which targeted five major cities in retribution for […]
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