by Leah Kaufman
by Rabbi Naftali Schiff
The Jewish world has lost a towering hero.
by Noel Izon
When the world closed its doors to refugees, President Manuel Quezon saved 1200 Jews fleeing Nazi Germany.
by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller
The heroic woman rescued scores of Dutch Jews during the Holocaust, and has died at the age of 96.
by Rivka Ronda Robinson
Sidney Shafner was one of the first U.S. soldiers to reach Dachau, where he saved Marcel Levy.
by Adina Soclof, MS. CCC-SLP
Our daughter was twinned with a girl from Luboml, Poland who perished in the Holocaust. Then the past came to life.
Raised by Christians as part of the Kindertransport, a 7-year-old girl clings to her Jewish identity.
by Yael Mermelstein
During the Holocaust, my grandmother gave up everything for her closest friend, only to be abandoned in return.
by Menucha Chana Levin
Robert Levine was captured by the Nazis. As his life hung in balance, his dog tags revealed that he was Jewish.
by Yaakov Astor
The thrilling, true story of Rachel Blum’s struggle to survive in a world bent on destroying her.
Hershel Greenblat’s incredible story of resistance and freedom.
by Adam Samuel
I accompanied my grandfather, Howard Kleinberg, to Auschwitz where I heard him tell his harrowing – and miraculous – story to a group of students.
by Rabbi Yosef Wallis
A powerful true story of Jewish heroism.
by Beth Sarafraz
A glimpse into the eventful, fearless life of an indomitable survivor.
Father Patrick Desbois has dedicated his life to unearthing unmarked Jewish mass graves in Eastern Europe.
Henry Gallant was a passenger on the doomed SS St. Louis that fled Nazi Germany but was refused entry.
by Faigy Schonfeld
A feast of rotten potatoes in Leipzig.
by Salvador Litvak
While Herman Goering was killing Jews, his brother worked tirelessly to save them.
by Chaim Yitzchok Wolgelernter, Hy”d
A rare Holocaust diary appears 70 years after being written by its doomed author.
After seeing the whole world bleed and collapse in on itself, this cannot be happening. We must jump.
How did a survivor who wouldn’t buy a ticket to Israel afford to commission a Torah scroll all by himself?
by Yakov Brachfeld
My grandfather’s Passover Seder, hiding from Nazis in the Krakow Ghetto.
by Roizy Waldman
Violinist Bronislaw Huberman saved hundreds from the Nazis. The amazing story behind Joshua Bell’s priceless Stradivarius.
Fanny and Jerry Goose’s story of surviving the Holocaust.
The incredible determination and faith of Ben Hirsch, a German boy left orphaned by the Holocaust.
I made a vow: If I survived Buchenwald, I would return and kill the mayor’s wife.
by Gav Cohn
My grandfather woke up that morning in Berlin to see the synagogue engulfed in flames.
by Emily Amrousi
Moshe Kraus saved tens of thousands of Jews. Why has no one heard of him?
by Tassoula Eptakili
How Zakynthos, a Greek island, hid its Jews from the Nazis.
by Eli Levine
Disguised as a Nazi, Pinchas Rosenbaum saved hundreds of Jews in Hungary.
by Reuven Lewis, M.Ed.
We have a duty to educate the world. Here is one survivor’s harrowing story.
by Suly Chenkin
At the age of 1, I survived the selection in the Kovno Ghetto that wiped out a third of the population.
by Margareta Ackerman
My grandfather’s struggle to survive in Nazi occupied Europe.
by Marnie Winston-Macauley
Ben Lesser a Holocaust survivor, on living a life that matters.
by Anthony Robbins
The inspiration behind an Oscar-nominated documentary, Alice Herz-Sommer passed away a week before the Academy Awards at age 110.
by Tzvi Gluckin
A story of survival and a libretto for six million.
Dr. Mohamed Helmy, an Egyptian Arab, risked his own life to save a Jewish family during the Holocaust.
She buried her Jewish identity. Her son embarked on an astonishing quest to reclaim it.
by Steve Eisenberg
How Rabbi Herschel Schacter saved the life of a Jewish boy who grew up to be Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau.
by Yossi Friedman
Along with the horrors of the Holocaust, we must never forget the courage and unwavering faith.
by Brad Rothschild
The man who saved 900 Jewish boys inside a death camp.
by Sam Halpern
The Jews were packed into cattle cars and covered with lime, which burned their flesh right off the bones.
I started on the lower bunk. As more people were killed, space opened up on the upper bunks.
Throughout the gunfire and screaming, I could hear a violin playing and a woman singing.
Had we taken Hitler's book and speeches literally, we might have acted differently.
The Germans' main objective was to humiliate the people and make them targets for vicious beatings.
by Suzanna Eibuszyc
Born and raised in Poland, I assumed my mother’s Holocaust burden.
by Bayla Sheva Brenner
Children of Holocaust survivors reclaim their heritage.
by Debbie Shapiro
A 70-year saga of torture, escape and reunion.
There are no words to describe their valor, only prayers.
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