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57,000 Tripping Stones Honor Holocaust Victims Across Europe, but This One’s Personal
on March 21, 2016Newly laid tripping stones, commemorating Holocaust victims Salomon van Gelder and Fijtje Fruitman, in Amsterdam. Photo Credit: Steven…
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Olga Horak, Holocaust survivor: Heart of the Nation
on March 20, 2016Clothes are important to Olga Horak. A self-taught seamstress, she was in the rag trade all her working life, running a factory and a fashion boutique in Sydney.
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Holocaust Children Share Survival Stories
on March 20, 2016The Greeneville High School Advanced Chorus performs “In Remembrance” for the nearly 1,100 students who attended the East…
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Holocaust survivor still a fighter at 91
on March 18, 2016If you ask 91-year-old Holocaust survivor Albert Rosa to take a couple of jabs in the boxing ring, he would probably oblige. Rosa,…
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A symbol for an entire generation of heroes
on March 8, 2016President Rivlin says goodbye to the last survivor from Treblinka, Samuel Willenberg; ‘The story of his life is the eternal story of the Jewish people,’ the…
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The Last Train Before the War
on March 6, 2016There is a photograph of my father and grandfather, taken on Sunday, Aug. 27, 1939, at a spot overlooking the…
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Holocaust Survivors Struggle To Prove Their Cases as Claims Conference Cracks Down
on March 6, 2016Seventy-eight-year-old Izrail Gelman received $70,000 in Holocaust restitution payments from the German government over nearly 20 years. Now, the Conference on Jewish Material…
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Torn from her family, Holocaust survivor spent her life making a new one
on March 3, 2016To Helen Handler, the most important thing was family. I think it’s the first thing she would have wanted me to write about her,…
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