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Honoring the Survivors

Jeanette Ringold speaks often about being a hidden child and how she learned what really happened. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

Dutch ‘hidden child’ had to piece together her own story

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 14, 2026April 17, 2026

Jeannette Ringold has spent much of her life trying to piece together what happened to her and her family during the years she was a hidden child in the Holocaust. […]

"The paper will have your handprints on it," student Lucas Leeds says of drawing with charcoal. "You really become part of the drawing itself." (Photo/Leslie Katz)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

With paper and charcoal, local students learn empathy for Holocaust survivors

Leslie Katz by Leslie Katz August 4, 2023August 7, 2023
Holocaust survivor Leon Rajninger at his home in San Francisco. (Photo/Liz Harris)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

Read and watch testimony from 10 Bay Area Holocaust survivors

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb April 18, 2023April 18, 2023
A group of Jewish young men pose while on an excursion in the Macedonian woods in 1941. The man seated in the front row, far left, has been identified as Nissim Kassorla by Numbers To Names according to Daniel Patt. (Photo/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Gabriel Albocher)
Posted inBay Area

Once just faces, these Holocaust victims now have names

Alix Wall by Alix Wall April 13, 2023April 27, 2023
“You can hear a pin drop when I tell my story,” says Sy Karfiol.
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

‘My childhood ended’: Sacramento Holocaust survivor Sy Karfiol recounts harrowing tale for spellbound audiences

by Dan Pine June 30, 2022June 30, 2022
Edith Heine as a toddler in pre-war Holland.
Posted inYom HaShoah

East Bay Holocaust survivor, 83, shares history through a child’s eyes

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 5, 2021April 7, 2021
Misia Nudler. (Photo/Carol Goldman)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

Holocaust survivor, 93, recalls horrors, close scrapes — and a new life in Oakland

by Gabriel Greschler December 18, 2020December 18, 2020
an old bald man stands in a well-appointed book-lined study
Posted inJewish Life

Psychedelic journeys brought peace to this Holocaust survivor. Now he’s helping others on their own journeys.

Alix Wall by Alix Wall July 16, 2020August 3, 2020
Herbert Heller in 2019. (Photo/Vivian Cohen)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

Quick thinking saved this North Bay man’s life during Holocaust

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky June 12, 2020June 15, 2020
Gisa Oloff, 91, at home in Palo Alto. (Photo/Gabriel Greschler)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

‘Everybody has a story’: A Nazi annexation, an escape through Europe, and survival

by Gabriel Greschler April 28, 2020

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