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War stories: Holocaust survivor meets descendant of Nazi scientist

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Five hundred rivets—that was Oskar Jakob’s goal. Failure to meet the quota in a 12-hour shift meant severe punishment. “If I didn’t make the minimum, I got beaten,” he said. Jakob, 94, is a Jewish resident...
Holocaust survivor Ruth Haran, 87, from Kibbutz Be'eri, pleads for her seven family members including two great grandchildren being held captive by Hamas in Gaza, Nov. 7, 2023. Photo by Rina Castelnuovo.

Holocaust survivor saved from Hamas buries son, fears for captive family

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“This is a second Holocaust for me,” said survivor Ruth Haran, 87, who is reliving a childhood nightmare. Twice now, she has made it out alive from the inferno. But the death, the destruction and the...
Relatives and friends attend the funeral of Holocaust survivor David (“Dugo”) Leitner in Moshav Nir Galim in Israel on July 27, 2023. Photo by Liron Moldovan/Flash90.

Funeral takes place for Holocaust survivor David ‘Dugo’ Leitner, 94

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David “Dugo” Leitner was born in Hungary in 1930 to his parents, Meir and Golda Leah, and raised in an Orthodox home. In March 1944, invading Nazi Germans corralled his family to the ghetto;...
Mireille Knoll, the 85-year-old Jewish woman brutally murdered in her apartment, was a Holocaust survivor. She had managed to evade as a child the 1942 Vel d’Hiv Nazi-directed roundup by French police of more than 13,000 Jews who were sent to Nazi death camps.

Murderer of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll sentenced to life

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A French court on Wednesday sentenced Yacine Mihoub to life in prison, with no possibility of parole for 22 years, for the 2018 murder of Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll. A second man, Alexander Carrimbacus,...
Credit: Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.

Jewish federations awarded $5 million federal grant to assist Holocaust survivors

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Community Living/Administration on Aging has awarded a $5 million grant to the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) to expand Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed (PCTI) care...
Survivors at the Dachau concentration camp cheer their liberation by U.S. soldiers. Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Md.

State Department: ‘Much work remains’ to provide restitution to Holocaust survivors and their descendants

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Property belonging to Holocaust survivors and their descendants have yet to be returned to their rightful owners, in addition to restitution to these people, is an issue largely unresolved 70 years after the end...
Irina Shur. Credit: Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography.

Holocaust survivor stabbed to death in Moscow apartment

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A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor was discovered stabbed to death last week in her apartment in Moscow. An unidentified 69-year-old woman was arrested in connection with the murder of Irina Shur, a former professor at the...
Image from the film “Hidden,” about Jewish children who survived World War II and the Holocaust. Credit: The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus.

Holocaust center to present Tisha B’Av film screening, survivor interview

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The Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills, Mich., will hold a virtual event and film screening of the documentary “Hidden” on July 30, along with an interview with Holocaust survivor Miriam Ferber. The event is timed...