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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Shimon Peres 1923-2016 ז״ל

The International March of the Living Board of Directors, Staff, Global Leadership and Alumni around the world deeply mourn the passing of our friend and fellow Marcher Shimon Peres ז״ל. May his memory be a blessing. “Nobody could have broken us. They hate us, they persecute us, they killed many of us, but