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At the September 25 @ 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM What made a 29 year old stock broker give up his winter skiing holiday and rescue 669 young children from a foreign country? Hear from the son of Sir Nicholas Winton speak …
One of the youngest survivors to be our guest speaker for Yom Hashoah. The Thaler Holocaust Remembrance Fund will welcome to Eastern Iowa Yom HaShoah Guest Speaker Erika Schwartz. The Thaler Holocaust Remembrance Fund will welcome to Eastern Iowa Yom …
The people who hid Curt Bloch, a German Jew, in the crawl space of a Dutch home gave him both food and the materials he needed to make a highly creative magazine now drawing attention. By Nina Siegal Nina Siegal lives …
f you believe Israel desecrates the memory of the six million, I can say with confidence that if they were alive today, you’d hate them too Papa displays his tattoo in front of an iconic photo of his liberation from …
Courtney Crowder and Addison LathersDes Moines Register Holocaust survivor David Wolnerman shows the number the Nazis tattooed on his forearm at Auschwitz while sitting for a photo at his home in Des Moines.Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Register David Wolnerman, Des Moines’ last known …
He was one of more than 700 child survivors flown to Britain after World War II. He later became a leader in efforts to remember the Nazi horrors By Richard Sandomir June 28, 2023 Ben Helfgott, a Polish Jew who, after …
This is a recording of the April 18 Zoom webinar Walking the Streets Under Which the Ghettos Lay The video linked here is from a live event that occurred April 18, Holocaust Remembrance Day — Walking The Streets Under Which …
Recent photos from Cedar Rapids, Mount Vernon appearances. (photographer credits to come)
Lane Sainty and Melina Walling Tue, February 14, 2023 at 1:31 PM CST·11 min read When you’ve been married for 68 years, you get used to a certain question: What’s the secret? “We were just asked that yesterday, actually, by …
Solomon Perel in an undated photo. “I’m not a Jew,” he lied to his Wehrmacht captors in 1941. “I’m an ethnic German.”Credit…Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo/Alamy