‘It is our collective obligation to safeguard this treasured yet vulnerable population in the spirit of mutual responsibility,’ says Minister Omer Yankelevich.
‘I know that there’s someone thinking of me, I’m not alone in the world,’ says 85-year-old Holocaust survivor. ‘Someone thinking about sweetening Shabbat.’
‘We must remember each person as an individual who had a family, a profession and a community, to focus on the way they lived full lives, not just how they perished,’ said the founder of the initiative.
This 89-year-old Holocaust survivor beat the Nazis as a child is now experiencing the joy of seeing her grandson take to the sky as an Israeli Air Force pilot.
‘It is thanks to her and to all the other European icons that I am presenting my vision of Europe to you today,’ the first female European Commission president said.
‘You couldn’t really fight the German army, given our means, but we did our best to disrupt them,’ recalled Baruch Shub, who fought the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Six hundred survivors gathered together to sing ‘Chai,’ made famous by legendary Israeli artist Ofra Haza, ahead of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Holocaust survivors fleeing Europe were prevented from reaching Israel, then British Mandate Palestine, and were instead interned in detention camps in Cyprus.
Seventy years after the most daring attempt of Jewish Holocaust survivors to seek revenge against their former tormentors, the leader of the plot has only one simple regret — that to his knowledge he didn’t actually succeed in killing any Nazis.
Holocaust survivors sing the Israeli national anthem, knowing they would be arrested for trying to enter British-mandated Palestine and the future Jewish state.
The AMCHA organization was started 30 years ago by Holocaust survivors and health care professionals to address a “conspiracy of silence” and provide survivors with the support they need.
Over 70 years after the Holocaust, Jewish victims of that horrific tragedy are seeking justice from Hungary, which was an active participant in the mass murder of it Jewish population.
Henry Schein, Inc. joined the Alpha Omega International Dental Fraternity’s Seattle chapter in recognizing 25 Seattle area oral health professionals for their participation in a program that provides free dental care to Holocaust survivors in need.
Speaking at an event on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the multiple award-winning director stressed the importance of Holocaust education and awareness.