18+ hour, 56+ min ago   (84+ words) An oral history project organized by former schoolteacher Matthew Rozell to interview World War II veterans uncovered little-known stories from the conflict, including the liberation by American troops of 2,500 Holocaust survivors from a so-called "death train" in April 1945. Correspondent Seth…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (376+ words) The Alternative for Germany party won nearly 44% of the vote in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, a result that has horrified 83-year-old Eva Umlauf — a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz who now heads the International Auschwitz Committee. In…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (856+ words) Jewish pop star Pink weighs in after Macklemore’s ‘Free Palestine’ speech at Ed Sheeran concert This isn’t a Jewish restaurant. So why is it making challah, knishes and matzo balls? She found a coral reef that shouldn’t exist. Now she’s…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (394+ words) Berl and Raja Ilman Kagan in Lithuania before the war. Credit: Miriam Kagan Lieber People who have known Miriam Lieber as a neighbor in the town of Oceanside, or through her longtime directorship of the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County,…...

6+ day, 32+ min ago   (452+ words) A plaque commemorating the life and sacrifice of Scottish Christian woman, Jane Haining, has been unveiled at Auschwitz. Haining was born in Dumfriesshire in 1897. In 1932 she moved to Hungary to serve as matron of the Scottish Mission School in Budapest....

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (448+ words) Judith Wohlberg, front row second from left, and George Schiffman, second from right, were honored by family members and elected officials on the occasion of their 100th birthdays. Both survived the Holocaust while losing family members. Almost an entire country and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (738+ words) KIBBUTZ NA’AN, Israel—The personal wartime diary, assiduously written by the young mother, detailed the infant’s early development, from his first smile to his weight and even a curl of his hair. It was Jacqueline Meents-Lenstra’s first experience of parenthood....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (515+ words) Kate Bernath, a Shoah survivor who will turn 99 this weekend, shared her history in a conversation at her home in Randolph, New Jersey earlier this month. Her positivity shone through as she said, “Never give up hope, even though people…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1442+ words) Using her walker, a small woman plods into the dining room at The Cambridge Homes. Her undereyes sag, affecting an illusion that she is constantly looking up. When she finally reaches the table, she is heaving for air, grunting a…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (684+ words) Adriana Turk, 74, believed she was the last person left alive in her family before a DNA test reunited her with dozens of family members across the world When Adriana Turk’s brother died last year, she thought she was left alone…...