Holocaust Remembrance 2014

In 1944, Helga Weiss came to terms with the idea of dying – with one important condition. She…

Sir Nicholas Winton saved the lives of hundreds of young Jewish people.

From prisoner to soldier.

A most famous picture from the Holocaust is that of a young boy with his hands raised while a…

Gino Bartali, born in poverty to a Catholic family in Tuscany, grew up as an enthusiastic and…

On January 27, 2015, the free world celebrated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the…

The day before his seventh birthday, Nazis ransacked Peter Ney’s home in Nuremberg, Germany.

A Florida couple who met in a concentration camp later found each other again during a blind…

The Jews had established a physical presence in Poland back to the days of the first century,…

Children were especially vulnerable in the era of the Holocaust. The Nazis advocated killing…

Rose Lipszyc was born to a Jewish family in Poland in 1929, and lived a life of relative peace,…

British sisters Louise and Ida Cook rescued Jews from the Nazis during the 1930s. The sisters…

This is a heartwarming letter written by a mother to her daughter at the height of the…

Abhorred by the actions of the Nazis, one leader in a distant southwestern Asian archipelago…

Georges Dilsizian fled to France in the end of the 19th Century because of the Turkish…

Gisella Perl was born into a Jewish family in Hungary in 1907, and aspired to medical school…

Yad Vashem, the world holocaust remembrance center, presents an innovative online course on the…

For Kristine Chiger (later Kristine Keren post-war), then a 7-year old Jewish girl whose family…