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How the sewers under Nazi-occupied Ukraine gave rise to unexpected Holocaust heroes
1+ hour, 23+ min ago (891+ words) At least 80 percent of pre-World War II Lviv's Jewish community of 150, 000 people were murdered in the Holocaust. A small group of Jews managed to survive by hiding within the Ukrainian city's sprawling sewer system for 14 months, evading capture by the…...
Who still reads Holocaust stories? A publisher sees shifting trends after October 7
4+ hour, 8+ min ago (1119+ words) Liesbeth Heenk doesn't just publish Holocaust memoirs " she tracks, in real time, how the world reads them. And since the bloody Hamas attack of October 7, 2023, what she's seeing has changed dramatically. As the owner of the largest publisher of Holocaust…...
Avenging angel risked her life to try to save Warsaw's Jews " and lived to write about it
8+ hour, 33+ min ago (760+ words) Renee Ghert-Zand is the health reporter and a feature writer for The Times of Israel. By December 1942, Meed (born Feigele Peltel) was the sole survivor of her family. Her father had died from illness, and her mother, sister, and brother…...
Over 80 years after fleeing the Nazis, a survivor moves to Israel, finally home
16+ hour, 24+ min ago (1294+ words) Penina Zeitchik was just 3 years old when the Nazis approached the little town of Lubieszow, where she lived with her family. The town had been part of Poland before World War II, but in 1939, it was occupied by the Soviet…...
From generation to generation: Holocaust and Oct. 7 meet in intimate salon memorials
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (1188+ words) About 15 years ago, an Israeli university student in her early 20s was walking home from a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony she attended at her mother's insistence. Altschuler began inviting friends and neighbors to her family's home to hear Holocaust survivors speak....
Ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day, 111, 000 survivors living in Israel
2+ day, 45+ min ago (498+ words) At the start of 2026, there were 111, 000 Holocaust survivors in Israel, according to figures released Sunday by the Central Bureau of Statistics ahead of the annual commemoration of Holocaust Remembrance Day later this week. All survivors are at least 80 years old,…...
Despite war cancellations, Holocaust survivors from Israel to join March of the Living
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (513+ words) A small group of around a dozen Holocaust survivors from Israel will join this year's March of the Living memorial event in Poland, after the war with Iran forced organizers to cancel the Israeli delegation, which numbered some 1, 500 people. The…...
In glitzy interwar Warsaw, truth meets fiction as 2 young women hunt for missing mentor
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (803+ words) Renee Ghert-Zand is the health reporter and a feature writer for The Times of Israel. Five years ago, it was clear to author Judy Batalion that she was not done with the determined, resilient young Jewish women she had come…...
In Albania, teens at German school discover tribal code of honor that saved Jews in WWII
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (1291+ words) TIRANA, Albania (JTA) " Sixteen-year-old Melisa Malo, a 10th-grader at Tirana's Gjimnazi Sami Frash'ri, first learned about the Holocaust four years ago when she attended an Albanian-language stage performance of "The Diary of Anne Frank." That evening, her parents told her…...
The elderly were among the most vulnerable in the Holocaust " and the most overlooked
1+ week, 4+ day ago (762+ words) Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and the author of "Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew." In Britain, the stories of Jewish child refugees who escaped the Nazis on the famous "Kindertransport…...