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Hana Ivashkov has told the tale of escaping Lithuania several times, but as she recounted it on Sunday, she said she could still feel chills on her arms. Ivashkov, 96, was 11 years old when she rode ...
In February 1942, a 12-year-old girl escaped a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Belarus. A champion swimmer, she coated herself in goose fat and swam under ice to evade guards before fleeing into a ...
Separate the signal from the noise about antisemitism and understand current debates over Jewish safety. Sign up for the Antisemitism Decoded newsletter today. Like many Holocaust survivors, Ari ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Muscatine Community College (MCC) will bring history to life with The Journey Back: A Virtual Reality Experience, an interactive ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Steven Spielberg speaks on stage at a University of Southern California event honoring Holocaust survivors who gave testimony to ...
(JTA) — Almost all of the Holocaust survivors alive today will be dead in 15 years, a new projection by a leading organization advocating for their compensation finds. While the timeline is something ...
In videotaped testimony recorded in 1984, Holocaust survivor Baruch G. describes the crushing loneliness that followed his liberation from the Nazis. “I remember after liberation, I suffered probably ...
Survivors and witnesses speak (clockwise from top left): Krystyna Gil, Edith Plakins, Renee Hartman, and Jan Karski. Credit: Eleanor Polak photos How do we talk about something for which we have no ...
Canada has allocated $800,000 to preserve the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. The funding from the federal Citizenship and Immigration department will go to four Jewish organizations in Canada to ...
The Bronx-born literature professor led the first course on Holocaust literature known to be taught at an American college or university. (JTA) — “One of the first things I learned is that you cannot ...