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Archives: Survivor Stories

  • 80-year-old dad who survived Holocaust gets ultimate surprise by John McEnroe

    on October 1, 2016

    When Les Held was 6 years old, he and his…

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  • There’s A Reason This Holocaust Survivor Goes Back To His Synagogue In Greece Every Summer

    on September 30, 2016

    “I promised myself that no matter where I wound up, I would return to Rhodes every summer to say ‘never again.’”

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  • Joseph Harmatz, Who Led Jewish Plot to Kill Germans After World War II, Dies at 91

    on September 29, 2016

    Investigators in Nuremberg, Germany, examined the hiding place where arsenic was found in 1946 in a bakery that…

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  • World’s Oldest Working Journalist, 90-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Noah Klieger, Fears Nazi Genocide Will Be Forgotten in 50 Years

    on September 26, 2016

    One of Israel’s best-known Holocaust survivors told a…

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  • Holocaust Survivor Has One Regret About Hunting Nazis

    on September 25, 2016

    (AP) TEL AVIV, Israel — Seventy years after the most daring attempt of Jewish Holocaust survivors to seek revenge, the leader…

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  • Holocaust survivor Max Steinmetz shares his harrowing story, and says ‘anything can happen’ today

    on September 23, 2016

     Roy S. Johnson | rjohnson@al.com It’s not always easy to talk about history—not the most wrenching and shameful periods, the heinous events and people without conscience that have…

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  • A Night to Honor Noah Klieger

    on September 15, 2016

    International March of the Living and Israeli-Jewish Congress (IJC) are honored to have hosted a special evening to honor a remarkable man, Noah Klieger -…

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  • Raoul Wallenberg’s Journey From Grocery Salesman to Holocaust Hero

    on September 14, 2016

    Ingrid Carlberg’s richly detailed ‘Raoul Wallenberg: The Biography’ presents fresh facts about the Swede who saved so many Jews, but is unable to answer the gnawing question surrounding his…

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  • Holocaust Survivor Who Cut Hair at Auschwitz Closes Chicago Barber Shop After 60 Years in Business

    on September 8, 2016

    A Holocaust survivor whose task it…

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  • Ellen Tarlow, Holocaust survivor and educator

    on August 31, 2016

    Ellen Meinberg Tarlow, 88, formerly of Glenside, a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped Germany…

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