Tag: Holocaust Survivors
How a 16-year-old girl risked her life to save Jews during World War II
CARMEL, Ind. – Janina Korzeniewski has a one word answer when asked what it was like the day the Nazis marched into Poland in 1939.
“Fear.”
Janina was 16-years-old, a striking beauty and was tutored in...
Holocaust heroine tells true tale of defying Nazis, saving thousands
A French national who spied on the Nazis will tell her tale of bravery and risk at the Chabad Jewish Center of Cape Coral's annual dinner next week.
Now 97, Marthe Cohn, is a devoutly...
Israeli Survivors Respond to Polish Legislation: ‘No Law Can Wipe Out the Memory of...
Israeli Holocaust survivors from Poland expressed outrage on Sunday over the passage of Polish legislation that seeks to outlaw any mention of the country’s complicity in atrocities perpetrated by Nazi Germany against the Jews.
The controversial bill, which...
German Jewish swing star, camp survivor dies at 93
German Jewish guitarist Coco Schumann, who had a more than seven-decade-long career in swing and jazz music and survived several Nazi concentration camps, has died aged 93, his music label said Monday.
“Not only his...
Italian who survived Auschwitz as a child given top honor
A Jewish woman who was one of the few Italian children to survive deportation to a Nazi death camp has been made a senator-for-life in Italy.
President Sergio Mattarella's office said Friday that he chose...
‘Holocaust survivor anthem’ to be performed at UN by 3 Israelis
“I stand, the last one of them all, but all of them are still living in my soul.” These stirring words will be sung on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 by three...
Holocaust survivor Leah Goltzman dies at 79
Holocaust survivor Leah Goltzman spent her time in Corpus Christi sharing stories of moving from place to place to survive during World War II.
Goltzman, who frequently volunteereed helping the Jewish community, died Dec. 29,...
Holocaust Survivor Still Runs Family Business
At the age of 90, Suzy Ressler still comes into work every day.
She owns Mrs. Ressler’s Food Products, which she founded in 1954 with her husband, Emerich, soon after they arrived to the United...
Jews who saved other Jews from Nazis faced dilemmas too difficult for Solomon
Following the bloody month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 1943, a cable was sent from British Mandate Palestine to occupied Poland’s Jewish Fighting Organization members. It contained the Jewish settlement leaders’ instructions to the...
Muslims who saved Jews during the Holocaust honoured in London
Jewish and Muslim leaders in Barnet have paid tribute to the Muslims who saved Jews during the Holocaust as part of the council’s Celebrate Interfaith Week.
An event at Middlesex University earlier this month heard...