Tag: Holocaust Survivors
Oldest concentration-camp survivor dies at age 108
The oldest known survivor of a Nazi concentration camp, Boris Pahor, died on Monday in the Italian city of Trieste at the age of 108, reported Deutsche Welle.
Pahor was born on Aug. 26, 1913, in...
Auschwitz survivor, 98, wins Simon Wiesenthal Prize for Holocaust education
A survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp who became a social-media celebrity thanks to her great-grandson was one of four people to win a Simon Wiesenthal Prize.
Lily Ebert, 98, was born in Hungary in...
Annual Holocaust march faces major challenge as survivors pass away
The International March of the Living will take place in Poland on April 28 following a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. Despite the ability to gather in person, organizers say they now face a...
Bennett on Yom Hashoah: ‘We cannot allow gene of factionalism dismantle Israel’
The modern-day State of Israel must not allow “the dangerous gene of factionalism” to dismantle it from within, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Wednesday.
Speaking during a Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day...
‘Yom Hashoah: A Day to Remember’ online program to feature survivor’s ordeals
The Touro College Hans Goldschmidt Institute for Human Rights and the Holocaust will mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 28 with an online program called “Yom Hashoah 2022: A Day to Remember” from noon to 1:30...
Holocaust survivors to pass torch of remembrance to next generation
Holocaust survivors from five continents will share their experiences during and after World War II and the Shoah as part of a 10-hour online conversation hosted by the Combat Antisemitism Movement, Zikaron BaSalon affiliated with the...
‘Real-time’ testimonials from survivors to highlight new Orlando Holocaust center
The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida, north of Orlando, will expand, relocate and be renamed as its mission shifts to preserving the testimonials and memories of survivors of the Shoah.
The new...
Holocaust survivor, 91, perishes in store basement in Mariupol
As she lay dying in a Mariupol basement, freezing and pleading for water, Holocaust survivor Vanda Semyonovna Obiedkova wanted to know only one thing: “Why is this happening?”
Ill and emaciated during the last two...
Mimi Reinhard, who typed out Schindler’s list, dies at 107
Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s office who typed up the list of Jewish men, women and children to be saved from death by Nazi Germany, died in Israel on Friday at the...
Ophthalmologist John H. Merey shares his Holocaust survival story
Dr. John H. Merey, who practices ophthalmology in West Palm Beach, Fla., was born in Budapest, Hungary, and survived the Holocaust, due to the heroic actions of Zionist Rudolf Israel (Rezső Kasztner) Kasztner. He recently shared...