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How I Reunited My Holocaust Survivor Father With His Long Lost Neighbor
Jerzy “Jurek” Skarżyński had been up half the night. The next day he was going to meet the daughter and grandson of a…
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Alumni Reflection: Julia Ellis “I Traveled All The Way To Poland To March For Those Who No Longer Can—And It Changed My Life Forever”, 2016
I went on March of the Living to make sure that not one victim of the Holocaust died in…
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Marking the Ghosts in Poland’s Old Jewish Cemeteries
How do you alert people to an absence? Across Poland, different communities come together to clean up and restore Jewish cemeteries. But in…
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Holocaust survivors rush to beat deadline on Poland claims
The entrance to the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering ‘Arbeit macht frei’ (‘Work makes you…
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Holocaust jacket found at tag sale leads to a life story
The blue and grey stripes struck Jillian Eisman like a lightning bolt. She was rummaging through a packed…
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Police: Stolen Nazi Camp Gate Probe Could Be Complicated
The iron gate from the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau, southern Germany, with the slogan “Arbeit macht…
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Jews of Aden recall the pogrom sparked by UN vote on Palestine partition plan
Arabs set alight a Jewish school for boys in Aden, Yemen during a demonstration against the UN partition…
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