3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1316+ words) Rūdninkai, LITHUANIA — Deep in the trees and swampy thickets of Lithuania’s Rūdninkai Forest, a series of makeshift forts is sinking into the earth. These represent the remains of underground bunkers where Jewish partisans resisted their annihilation in the Holocaust. Under…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (190+ words) Sun Sentinel Helen Daniel, a Delray Beach resident who was born in Germany on Aug. 6, 1925, survived unimaginable horrors as a child, hiding in an attic for 10 months during the Holocaust. Thanks to the kindness of Peter Starch — the family’s chauffeur,…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (389+ words) A memorial stone is to remain in place outside the house in Braunau am Inn near the German border with the inscription, “For freedom, democracy and liberty. Never again fascism. Millions of dead remind us.” Hitler was born in the…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (270+ words) I was recently asked by a Holocaust survivor a question I could not answer with certainty. “Will anyone still care about my story when I am gone?” What I can say is this: what gets built in the next few…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (573+ words) If only he had lived to see it: The U.S. Congress honored Benjamin Berell Ferencz, one of the chief prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials, with a posthumous Congressional Gold Medal, its highest civilian accolade, on Tuesday, Holocaust Remembrance Day. Sara Bloomfield,…...

9+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1815+ words) When Michael Smuss died last month at 99, an era of Jewish history came to a close. Smuss was the last known resistance fighter during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when Jews rose up against their Nazi persecutors in one of the…...