Holocaust Studies

The Woman Who Hid 100 Jews in Her Attic

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“I Don’t Want to Work for a Jew”

"Not interested in working for a Jew." That's what a Cornell student wrote back to Gabe Einhorn's company, two weeks after applying for a summer internship. Gabe, 24, wears a kippah proudly in every video he posts online. He never expected hatred like this to find him. Gabe and his brother Aiden started a company […]

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From Vietnamese Refugee to Israeli Soldier to Florida Restaurateur

She was five weeks old when her parents fled their bombed-out village in North Vietnam. By six, she was on a plane to Israel. By twenty, she was a radar spotter on the Lebanese border, watching for Hezbollah. Today, Ai Lien Luong Phung owns four kosher restaurants in South Florida. This is her unusual story. […]

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Synagogue in the Sahara
For centuries a Jewish community thrived in the heart of the Sahara Desert.

In 1984, an American doctor touring Algeria stumbled across something he never expected to find in the middle of the Sahara Desert: a synagogue. Dr. Ronald Nagel, a hematologist, was on a scientific research trip when his hosts recommended he spend the weekend in the town of Ghardaia. "You cannot imagine how beautiful the place […]

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His Best Friend Killed His Daughter in a Car Accident
How one family’s superhuman response to tragedy galvanized a movement.

Charlotte Herzberg, an 8-year-old girl in Monsey, New York, was riding her bicycle when she was hit by a car and killed. The driver of the car was not texting, drunk, nor speeding. He was a respected member of the local Orthodox Jewish community and a dedicated volunteer for the Hatzalah emergency medical service. He […]

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