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The Sobibor Uprising

On Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), as we remember the six million, Sobibor demands we remember something else: the moment when Jews marked for certain death rose up and demonstrated that even inside a killing factory, courage and defiance were still possible. They armed themselves with whatever the Nazis overlooked: axes smuggled from the camp's […]

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My Father Survived the Holocaust. Today He Has Over 600 Descendants

It was 1944. A teenage boy, Aryeh Leibish Gottesman, had been rounded up by the Nazis with his mother and seven siblings. They were forced into cattle cars full of thousands of Jewish prisoners. Their destination? Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Aryeh, who went by his middle name, Leibish, and the other prisoners suffered on the train. […]

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This Survivor is Turning 102 Years Old
Pearl Hinda Nagel survived the Lodz Ghetto, outlived the Nazis and turned 101. Here is what she wants you to know.

Imagine the changes witnessed by someone born more than a hundred years ago, journeying from a 1924 childhood in the gas-lit, Yiddish-speaking textile center of Lodz, Poland, to a centennial life in modern Philadelphia. Pearl Hinda Nagel’s story is one of extraordinary survival, stretching from the age of horse drawn ice wagons and communal wells […]

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Captain Arturo Barros Basto and the Reawakening of Portuguese Jewry
For centuries, families in northern Portugal lit candles on Friday nights without knowing why. A Portuguese army captain set out to tell them.

In the mountain villages of northern Portugal, behind closed doors and drawn curtains, families for centuries had been keeping secrets they could not fully explain. They lit candles on Friday evenings without knowing why. They avoided certain foods. They murmured prayers in garbled fragments of a language their grandparents' grandparents had once spoken freely. They […]

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New Archeological Finds Israel-Haters Don’t Want You to Discover

An anti-Israel channel claimed Israel is digging under the Al-Aqsa mosque, threatening its foundations — and that archaeologists have found nothing to prove Jews ever lived here. We took a tour to find out for ourselves.

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