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BDE: Holocaust Survivor Who Preserved Poland???s Jewish Memory Dies at 107
12+ hour, 59+ min ago (130+ words) Yehuda Aharon Widawski, believed to be Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor, has passed away at the age of 107. Born in 1919 in Turek, Poland, Widawski endured the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz and Nazi forced-labor camps. After immigrating to Israel in 1950, he eventually returned…...
Uncovering a Holocaust survival story
1+ day, 13+ min ago (84+ words) An oral history project organized by former schoolteacher Matthew Rozell to interview World War II veterans uncovered little-known stories from the conflict, including the liberation by American troops of 2,500 Holocaust survivors from a so-called "death train" in April 1945. Correspondent Seth…...
Newark's Warren Decker endured harsh journey through Nazi POW camps
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (317+ words) That night, they all slept outside. Even though it was July, prisoners remembered that they were cold and shivering under the stars. By September 1944, Decker’s family finally received news from him. According to an article in the Barnesville, Ohio, newspaper,…...
'We don’t want to live in Auschwitz': Nir Oz wrestles with scars of Oct. 7
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (865+ words) ynetnews.com In Nir Oz, most of the burned and destroyed homes have already been cleared away and reconstruction is well underway But several damaged houses are still standing, including the home of the Bibas family, from which Shiri Bibas…...
Auschwitz Survivor, 83, on AfD's Triumph:
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (376+ words) The Alternative for Germany party won nearly 44% of the vote in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, a result that has horrified 83-year-old Eva Umlauf — a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz who now heads the International Auschwitz Committee. In…...
New film tells a little-known story of women slave labourers during the Holocaust
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (845+ words) Throughout her childhood Marisa Fox heard stories about her mother’s escapades as a spy and freedom fighter. Tamar Fromer Fox had told her daughter that in 1939 she managed to escape from Poland to Palestine, where she joined a Jewish paramilitary…...
LI woman shares father's Holocaust diary, 'A Jew in the Woods"
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (394+ words) Berl and Raja Ilman Kagan in Lithuania before the war. Credit: Miriam Kagan Lieber People who have known Miriam Lieber as a neighbor in the town of Oceanside, or through her longtime directorship of the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County,…...
Scottish Christian woman recognised in Auschwitz memorial plaque
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (452+ words) A plaque commemorating the life and sacrifice of Scottish Christian woman, Jane Haining, has been unveiled at Auschwitz. Haining was born in Dumfriesshire in 1897. In 1932 she moved to Hungary to serve as matron of the Scottish Mission School in Budapest....
New Zealand’s oldest Holocaust survivor shares her story with a new generation – J-Wire
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (852+ words) New Zealand’s oldest Holocaust survivor, 103-year-old Rachelle Calkoen, is sharing the story of how she survived Nazi-occupied Amsterdam under a stolen identity with a new generation of students.Calkoen appears in the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand’s educational film We…...
Watch: Nova survivors and freed hostages dance at Auschwitz
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (32+ words) Nova massacre survivors and hostages who returned from Gaza travel to Poland as part of a Selichot journey. At Auschwitz, they dance together. Watch: Nova survivors and freed hostages dance at Auschwitz...