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By Sean Coughlan BBC News education and family correspondent In August 1942, a stranger knocked on the door of a house in the Hague, in the Netherlands. An eight-year-old girl was handed over to the safekeeping of the unknown visitor, …
Max Fuchs, G.I. Cantor in Historic Battlefield Service, Is Dead at 96 ImageMax Fuchs, second from left, helped lead a battlefield prayer service for Jewish soldiers in Germany in 1944 that was broadcast in the United States.Creditvia Max Fuchs By …
By Rebecca English, Royal Correspondent In Jerusalem For The Daily Mail and Mark Duell In London For Mailonline Published: 04:07 EDT, 26 June 2018 | Updated: 06:12 EDT, 26 June 2018 Prince William was left ‘deeply moved’ as he learnt …
By Paul Thornton Jun 23, 2018 | 4:00 AM People compare presidents they don’t like to Adolf Hitler. It happened during Barack Obama’s presidency, and among our letter writers, it has happened frequently since President Trump took the oath of …
HERO AMONG US Cedar Rapids, IA Coe College Documentary Screening Announced! John Gualtier is living a quiet life in his hometown of Vinton, Iowa when a local schoolteacher discovers he has a secret: He is actually a decorated war hero. …
When Michael Bornstein was just 4 years old, he stuck his arm out to show his identification tattoo to the Soviet soldiers who were liberating Auschwitz. One of the youngest recorded survivors of the Nazi death camp, Bornstein had undergone …
By MAGGIE ASTOR APRIL 12, 2018 For seven decades, “never forget” has been a rallying cry of the Holocaust remembrance movement. But a survey released Thursday, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, found that many adults lack basic knowledge of what happened …
KCCK Radio – Culture Crawl 338 “Remembrance” April is Holocaust Remembrance Month, and in Cedar Rapids, the David and Joan Thaler Holocaust Remembrance fund brings a Holocaust speaker to the area each year. This year, Michael Bornstein and his daughter …
By Ellie Silverman March 28 Email the author An inspector from the Dutch education ministry arrived at Johan van Hulst’s teacher training institute in Amsterdam on the morning of June 19, 1943. He noticed youngsters and, with SS soldiers standing …
2018 Yom HaShoah Michael Bornstein & Debbie Holinstat The Thaler Holocaust Remembrance Fund is proud to announce our 2018 Yom HaShoah Guest Speakers Michael Bornstein and Debbie Holinstat. The authors of Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young …