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Who knew something so small could have witnessed so much tragedy? By Erris Langer Klapper Mar 10, 2016 When my daughter was born, my mother gave me a comb that my grandmother Ella (born Esther) had given her. That comb, …
“Genocide does not happen from one minute to the next. It builds gradually,” Brown said. By Scott Viau LAINFIELD, IL — If you were to meet 88-year-old Magda Brown just walking down the street, her tragic past would be almost …
By Nate Nickolai As a young woman, Sophie Zeidman Hamburger had faced death before the German Nazi soldiers at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. At the age of 93, she told her story to a group of eager students in the main …
Nevada Daily Mail Friday, February 12, 2016 By Abigail Pino Dr. Shelly Cline makes a point during her presentation. Abigail Pino/Daily Mail [Order this photo] Nevada Daily Mail”In previous years, educational curriculum teaching the Holocaust has tended to focus only …
By Ari Hait U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum looking for survivor stories Old documents in Boca Raton tell remarkable story of courage BOCA RATON, Fla. —A curator from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was in South Florida recently after museum officials …
David Wolpe is the Max Webb Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. ‘The passing of the survivor generation gives us a special responsibility to sustain the memory’ I cannot remember your experiences. When you are touched by something …
Gene Klein Holocaust survivor, speaker, writer Ian Waldie via Getty Images On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, I am very concerned when I see presidential candidates fanning the flames of animosity. In the ’30s in Germany, Jews were the target, but …
January 24, 2016 12:00 AM John Heller/Post-Gazette Moshe Baran, 95, at home in Squirrel Hill. Portraits of his family and his wife sit on an end table near the couch. By Andrew Goldstein / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Elizabeth Brown gazes woefully …
Holocaust survivor Eva Clarke talking to pupils at Castle View Academy, Sunderland. Sue Kirby [email protected] Thursday 14 January 2016 Youngsters at a Wearside secondary school heard first hand about the Holocaust. Students at Castle View Enterprise Academy welcomed survivor, Eva …
Mike Kilen, [email protected] 6:20 p.m. CST January 11, 2016 Jennie Wolnerman, one of the last survivors of the Holocaust in Iowa, died Saturday in her Des Moines home at age 91. She never wanted future generations to forget the Holocaust, …