Tag: Holocaust Survivors
Emotionally, KISS frontman Simmons discovers mother’s past during Holocaust
Rock legend and KISS frontman Gene Simmons got teary-eyed when reading over historical documents about his late Jewish mother’s experiences in the Holocaust and liberation from the Mauthausen concentration camp during a recent interview with Bild.
Simmons’s...
Celebrities raise funds for meals to Holocaust survivors homebound in New York
A group of celebrities helped fundraise on Tuesday to deliver meals for Holocaust survivors living in New York City who cannot leave their home amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The group included New England Patriots wide...
Online project in Britain sets up learning between students and Holocaust survivors
The United Kingdom’s National Holocaust Centre and Museum has launched an online program that allows schoolchildren at home during the coronavirus pandemic to ask questions to Holocaust survivors.
Connecting the survivors, many of whom are...
Jerusalemites stand side by side Holocaust survivors as Yom Hashoah siren sounds
As the siren to commemorate Yom Hashoah sounded throughout Israel on Tuesday morning, 1,600 volunteers in Jerusalem stood outside the homes of Holocaust survivors marking a moment of silence together for Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance...
Yom Hashoah ceremonies to be observed online-only due to coronavirus crisis
Though Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations usually include large ceremonies and events attended by thousands, the somber occasion will be marked this year exclusively in digital format for the first time ever, due...
Israeli Holocaust survivor’s testimony to be aired via Facebook live
While official in-person ceremonies are canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Jewish Agency for Israel will host two virtual Yom Hashoah events, bringing Jews around the world together to hear from Holocaust survivor...
To my Holocaust-survivor grandmother, who had a penchant for Wimbledon
My grandmother, Reggie Richman, passed away on April 10 at the age of 92 from complications due to the coronavirus (she also had pneumonia).
She was a Holocaust survivor, a teacher, a mother, grandmother and...
Online database with 26 million documents on Nazi victims, survivors now online
The world’s most comprehensive archive on the victims and survivors of Nazi persecution reached a “milestone” on Tuesday by publishing 26 million documents to its online database, including new information on forced laborers and deported Jews.
The...
Germany commemorates liberation of Bergen-Belsen with a minute of silence
Germany held a minute of silence on Wednesday to mark 75 years since the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp on April 15, 1945.
Events commemorating the liberation that were originally planned for Sunday...
Undying resiliency: ‘The survivors are giving us strength’
Each year, Yom Hashoah brings with it memorial gatherings across the world, candle-lighting ceremonies with elderly survivors and speeches by dignitaries.
Across Israel, the children and grandchildren of survivors publicly read of the names of...