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Honoring the Survivors

Hilda Namm, 94, survived Kristallnacht and the Shanghai ghetto before coming to the U.S. (Photo/Liz Harris)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

A post-Kristallnacht escape by ‘the bravest person I know’

by Liz Harris March 26, 2020March 31, 2020
Helen Fixler at home in Oakland, with her certificate of recognition from the state Legislature. (MAYA MIRSKY)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

She spent the war in hiding, from a forest bunker to a haystack

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky March 19, 2020March 19, 2020
(From left) Fredi, Frida, Zdenka and Filip Levy. (Photo/Courtesy Zdenka Ruchwarger Levy)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

Zdenka’s story of WWII survival in Croatia and Italy: ‘Others had it worse’

by Gabriel Greschler March 10, 2020March 10, 2020
Holocaust survivor Leon Rajninger at his home in San Francisco. (Photo/Liz Harris)
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

S.F. man, 88, recalls a ‘nightmare’ at every turn

by Liz Harris February 13, 2020February 21, 2020
Rena Victor (center) with her sisters after WWII in 1946-47.
Posted inHonoring the Survivors

Rena Victor, 80, recounts surviving Holocaust and bombing of Hamburg

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 5, 2020February 13, 2020
Lori, a Holocaust survivor from the JFCS Holocaust Center speakers' bureau, addresses students in March 2019. (Photo/Trish Tunney)
Posted inHolidays

Survivors in shrinking community speak their truths

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky January 27, 2020January 27, 2020
Jews wearing Star of David badges in the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. (JTA/Jewish Chronicle/Heritage Images/Getty Images)
Posted inHolocaust Remembrance Day

We must preserve survivor testimony to keep lessons alive

by J. Editorial Board January 24, 2020January 24, 2020
Joe Pell (Liz Harris)
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Joseph Pell, 95, reflects on a life of struggle and triumph

by Liz Harris January 24, 2020November 2, 2021

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