Tag: Holocaust Survivors
Rethinking restitution: A case for Jewish dignity
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki recently asserted that his government would never agree to pay restitution for property stolen from Jews during the Holocaust. This is in stark contrast to other European Union states,...
Georges Loinger, who saved 350-plus Jewish children during the Shoah, dies at 108
Georges Loinger, a Jewish man with Aryan features who managed to save hundreds of Jewish children during the Holocaust, died on Friday at the age of 108.
Loinger became a member of the French Resistance...
Obituaries and the Greatest Generation
Holocaust Survivors are our Greatest Generation. Their resilience and immigrant contribution to American life is formidable and compelling. The Bay Area is home to between 210,000, and 350,000 Jews. During 2018, the biweekly J of Northern...
Father of daughter killed in Parkland shooting lights White House menorah
WASHINGTON–Ten months after losing their daughter Meadow in the mass shooting at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., Andrew Pollack and his family stood alongside U.S. President Donald Trump as he lit...
‘Samuel Project’ stars Hal Linden as Holocaust survivor
The Samuel Project, filmed in San Diego and screened at the San Diego International Film Festival, is a gentle post-Holocaust story starring Hal Linden as Samuel, a Holocaust survivor who is reluctant to talk about...
Surviving the Shoah by hook or by crook
This book came to me “over the transom,” that is, without any previous warning. Even though it is three years old, I’m glad that I had a chance to read and review it, as...
Holocaust survivor repays a debt in ‘The Last Suit’
Holocaust survivor Abraham Bursztein (Miguel Angel Sola), the protagonist in the Spanish language, English-subtitled film The Last Suit, has a promise to keep before his children in Argentina move him out of his house and pack...
Honoring Polish rescuers in Warsaw who risked all to save Jews during the Holocaust
The sacrifices of Polish rescuers of Jews living in Warsaw during the Holocaust was honored on Sunday in one of the largest gatherings of Shoah rescuers in the Polish capital—and in what may be...
Israel Welfare ministry invites seniors, Holocaust survivors for free holiday hospitality
The Israeli government is working to ensure that no senior citizen or Holocaust survivor enter the upcoming holiday season alone, opening up a hotline for eligible participants to receive free holiday accommodations and inclusion...
‘Nana’: A thorough doc. film of a Holocaust survivor
“Nana,” as many of us know from the time as children we were mouthing our first words, means “grandma” and, in this case, “Nana” refers to Maryla Dyamant Michalowski, z”l, a Holocaust survivor who...