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Archives: Survivor Stories
  • Looking for the light in the dark: A Holocaust survivor’s story

    on November 10, 2016

    Shimon Redlich, 81, sees his childhood through a complicated prism – through the interplay between Jewish, Ukrainian and Polish relations in wartime Brzezany. As a Jew who survived the Holocaust…

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  • Germany Confronts, in Unique Exhibit, Its ‘Holocaust of the Bullets’

    on November 9, 2016

    BERLIN — In this city laden with history, they were just two events recalling a heinous past: one, the opening of a public exhibition calling…

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  • Portraits Depicting Siblings of South Jersey Holocaust Survivors Part of Exhibit at Stockton

    on November 8, 2016

    Galloway, N.J. – Distant memories and faded photographs are now more vivid and permanent for seven South Jersey Holocaust survivors whose siblings, murdered by…

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  • Stories from Holocaust prisoners forced to work in the gas chambers should be heard, not silenced

    on November 3, 2016

    On October 7 1944, a group of prisoners in Auschwitz-Birkenau took up tools and stones and…

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  • Women who escaped Nazi Germany reunited after “six degrees of separation”

    on November 2, 2016

    More than 80 years into life, Beatrice Muchman and Renate Wasserman learned they were second cousins, nearly 70…

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  • Two Holocaust survivors and their ‘wish of a lifetime’

    on November 1, 2016

    WASHINGTON (WUSA9) – They called it, “the wish of a lifetime.” Two…

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  • French student credits Holocaust survivor for changing his life in new film

    on October 31, 2016

    When Leon Zyguel visited a French classroom eight years ago to tell the story of how he survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald, he probably hoped…

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  • Jewish-American ex-sailor recalls Cyprus internment with Holocaust survivors

    on October 30, 2016

    Anger gripped Murray Greenfield when he found himself locked up in a British detention camp with hundreds of Jewish refugees after WWII

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  • Holocaust survivor Olga Sher fought for social justice

    on October 27, 2016

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  • The once-a-week Holocaust survivors’ social (work) club

    on October 25, 2016

    In recent years the Jerusalem Foundation has helped the Cafe Europa program establish locations throughout Jerusalem, where attendees can mingle, go on trips and take in lectures [caption id=”attachment_7771″…

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