Tag: Holocaust Survivors
Vatican beatifies Polish family killed for protecting Jews during the Holocaust
On Sept. 13, 1995, Yad Vashem recognized Józef and Wiktoria Ulma—a Polish couple who hid eight Jews during the Holocaust—as among the Righteous Among the Nations. Now, the Vatican has beatified the Ulmas, as well...
Holocaust-memory program centers on World War II-era musical instruments
After World War II, Palestine Symphony Orchestra musicians who wanted nothing to do with their German-made instruments offered Moshe Weinstein an ultimatum.
Weinstein had trained as a violinist and violin maker in Vilnius, then part...
‘Exodus’ immigrant’s diary shows hardships of post-Shoah refugees
Dozens of personal diaries from people living through the early years of the Jewish state have been handed over to the National Library of Israel as part of the Operation Diary project.
One presented recently...
Holocaust survivors to rewrite recently discovered Torah scroll
The Survivor Torah Project, an effort to restore a Torah scroll hidden from the Nazis, has now reached Toronto, Canada.
The scroll was found recently after being hidden for 75 years, given for safekeeping by a...
Antisemitism ‘working definition’ not a ‘work in progress,” new IHRA co-presidents say
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) is in the news a good deal these days. The intergovernmental organization is best known for its working definition of antisemitism, which many nations and institutions have adopted. Pro-Israel supporters...
A 92-year-old makes military bases her first stop in Israel … 16 times
Camilla Maas makes it clear that she doesn’t speak for Israelis. She doesn’t speak for American or international Jewry. The nonagenarian states plainly that she speaks for herself.
And for Sar-El, which partners in the United...
From Macedonia to Pardes Hanna
It was 1943 in German-occupied Greece.
The little girl with the curly blonde hair at the church on the outskirts of Athens was at the center of the Nazis’ attention. Reminded of their children back...
Holocaust survivors asked to record testimony with their families
Some 100 Holocaust survivors and their families are participating in a new campaign of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) called “Our Holocaust Story: Pledge to Remember.”
Seeing survivors with their family...
How music led to a cantor’s survival story, and how it lives on in...
April tends to feature a flurry of Holocaust-related arts pieces—from new exhibits to books to webinars and movies. One of them this year offers a through-the-generations feel that brings the past right into viewers’...
‘You chose life. You believed in good. You helped others,’ Netanyahu tells survivors
A Hungarian Jew, whose whole family was killed in the Holocaust, was sent to various concentration camps. At Mauthausen in Austria, an SS officer would wake him and other prisoners up every day. “‘You...