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Josh’s grandparents, Rae and Joseph, were Holocaust survivors; they met in Belarus, in a colony of Jews who had escaped Nazi roundups and were living in hiding. The couple made it to the United States in 1949, and Joseph became a successful carpenter. Charlie joined him in the early ’...
Some experts have pointed to that trial as a possible precedent because it was high-profile, dealt with a traumatic event and challenged Israel’s existing legal framework. In publicly airing the Nazis’ heinous crimes, the trial offered some catharsis for Holocaust ...
The Miami area is home to the largest population of Jewish escapee’s from or survivors of the Holocaust outside of New York, thought to be around 30,000 people. Many arrived in the state when rooming-houses still displayed signs in the window “No Dogs and No Jews”. One pre-war vaca...
When the British arrested virtually the entire male leadership of the Jewish Agency and charged them with illegally smuggling Jewish Holocaust survivors to Israel in defiance of limited quotas, Meir stepped in to become the organization’s de facto head and oversee the final details of the campaign...
When this collection of testimonies from Holocaust survivors was created, interviewees gave their permissions to be recorded but not for the interviews to be available anywhere on the internet. This makes the collections less accessible to researchers such as Abby Gondek (Morgenthau Scholar-in-...
Zahra Skaik, a 44-year-old Palestinian woman living in Gaza City, escaped the war thanks to her American sons.
While JewishGen can point you in the right direction to find your Holocaust victim, this particular database only deals with survivors. Dutch Survivor List from JewishGen When searching on JewishGen, make sure to look at all the Holocaust collections. There are so many areas that may have ...
Also, if you can, spend time with older family members and community elders. Learn from survivors of the Holocaust as well as other people's personal stories about living through times of heightened antisemitism. This can provide valuable lessons and insights. ...
Harry was born in the center of the known universe, Brooklyn, New York, to Edna and David Wittenberg, Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the US after WW II. Raised in a home rooted in Judaism, Harry attended Yeshiva, until his teens when he insisted on attending public school, ultimately...