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Archives: Survivor Stories
  • ‘Why it took me 40 years to face my father’s memoir’: A Holocaust survivor’s daughter on the trauma that shaped her

    on June 9, 2016

    ‘For years and years, I couldn’t bear to look at it. I didn’t have the emotional strength to face…

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  • Sherman tank makes way into Holocaust center

    on June 8, 2016

    Holocaust survivor Josef Scher, 95, stands next to a Sherman…

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  • Holocaust survivors gather at Jerusalem Theater, salute Israel

    on June 7, 2016

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  • An 88-Yr Old Holocaust Survivor Recalls Hearing — “We Are Americans and You are All Free.”

    on May 29, 2016

    “We are Americans, and all of you are free.” That phrase is etched in 88-year-old Henry Greenbaum’s memory as part of the best day of his life. It was told…

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  • ‘Living Room Memories’ allows Holocaust survivors to tell their stories at home

    on May 28, 2016

    Earlier this week a crowd gathered in a chic apartment up four flights of stairs on Ben Yehuda street in Tel Aviv. The hosts laid drinks and snacks out…

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  • JEWELRY FOUND HIDDEN IN HOLOCAUST VICTIM’S MUG AT AUSCHWITZ M– USEUM

    on May 26, 2016

    A Polish-made golden ring was found at the Auschwitz Museum hidden under the false base of an enameled…

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  • Hermina Hirsch, 89, fulfills longtime dream at Rays-Tigers game

    on May 24, 2016

    An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor has fulfilled her longtime wish to sing the United States national anthem at a Major League Baseball game. Hermina Hirsch sang Saturday at Comerica Park in…

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  • Holocaust survivor revisits his nightmare to help young people understand what happened

    on May 20, 2016

    Marcel Zielinski’s early childhood memories involve people clamouring to avoid incineration in the Nazi death camps of his native Poland during the Second…

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  • Holocaust survivors put human face on dark chapter in history

    on May 4, 2016

    Holocaust survivor Max Epstein was a teenager when his father and most of his extended family perished in the Lodz Ghetto of Poland. Epstein, who now lives in Highland Park,…

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  • Harrowing story of the Holocaust survivors still fighting for a dignified life 75 years on

    on May 3, 2016

    Children behind a barbed wire fence at the…

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