Holocaust Survivor Experiences Her Own Rescue in Virtual Reality

Amélie Diamant-Holmstrom fled Europe in 1940 on a ship of young refugees. That journey is the subject of the Defying the Nazis VR experience In 1940, Amélie Diamant-Holmstrom was one of the 29 children who arrived in the United States aboard the Excambion, a ship carrying child refugees from Nazi-occupied France,

Project to Build Visual Memory of Places & People Before, During the Holocaust

The European Holocaust Research Infrastructure project convened 30 historians and researchers at Yad Vashem to provide tools to improve access to Holocaust documentation. Films from the Holocaust period are filled with haunting images, providing a rare opportunity for researchers to piece together the stories of lives cut brutally short. In

A room in the ECB’s basement held thousands of Jews during the Holocaust

FRANKFURT – The European Central Bank’s new headquarters towers over the Main River in Frankfurt, a gleaming symbol of modern Europe. At its base stands a searing reminder of the continent’s dark history. Below the newly built skyscraper, a concrete ramp stretches down into a dark basement. Ten-thousand Jews awaited

IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS follows the March of the Living

  IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS follows the March of the Living This week W5’s Sandie Rinaldo joins a new generation confronting the horrors of the past. IN THEIR FOOTSTEPS follows the March of the Living, as teens travel to the death camps in Poland and hear first-hand from the dwindling numbers

‘Second Generation’ leader tells of need to keep Shoah memory

One of the most prominent leaders of the children of Holocaust survivors has attacked people who attempt to “pervert the memory of the Holocaust”. Menachem Rosensaft described as “obscene” those who “wish to twist and distort” the Shoah for political purposes. Mr Rosensaft, a lawyer, who was the guest of

The Strange Case of a Nazi Who Became an Israeli Hitman

Otto Skorzeny, one of the Mossad’s most valuable assets, was a former lieutenant colonel in Nazi Germany’s Waffen-SS and one of Adolf Hitler’s favorites. On September 11, 1962, a German scientist vanished. The basic facts were simple: Heinz Krug had been at his office, and he never came home. The

Holocaust heroine’s will, lost photos, unearthed in Scotland

A Holocaust heroine’s last will and testament has been unearthed in church archives in Scotland, offering a glimpse into the incredible life of Jane Haining, who died in Auschwitz in 1944. The handwritten will and previously unpublished photographs were recently found in a box in the Church of Scotland World

Renny Rychter and John Glass discussed March of the Living

Renny Rychter and John Glass discussed March of the Living.

Holocaust Survivors’ Needs Grow, and Aid Is Slow to Catch Up

BUDAPEST — Agnes Galgoczi, 84, can no longer make it to the toilet on her own. It sits in the kitchen of her apartment in Budapest, just three feet from the bed, where she sings to herself to fight loneliness. Several blocks away, Vera Varga, 78, slides decades-old movies into

Holocaust survivor shares story of those who hid her from the Nazis

The year was 1940 when the Nazis were rounding up Jewish women and children. Monique’s mother and father decided to give up their daughter to a Catholic family so she could have a better chance at survival. 9/14/16 (Monique Ritter)   LAS VEGAS (KSNV News3LV) — Monique Ritter’s story is one