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Holocaust survivor

Stephen Lang and Elsie Fisher star in a film about Holocaust survivor Herbert Heller of San Rafael
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‘The Optimist’ unfurls life story of San Rafael Holocaust survivor who touched hearts

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky February 11, 2026February 18, 2026

Updated Feb. 13 The life of Herbert Heller, the longtime San Rafael resident and Holocaust survivor who died in 2021, was a sobering one. Born in Czechoslovakia, he survived the […]

Etgar Keret speaks with Ira Glass
Posted inBooks

In S.F., Israeli writer Etgar Keret unfolds stories about ‘my dead mom’

Niva Ashkenazi (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Niva Ashkenazi November 4, 2025November 4, 2025
Tauba Weiss (left) sits with Jewish Family and Children's Services executive director Anita Friedman at a Yom HaShoah community commemoration in San Francisco in the 2010s. (Courtesy JFCS Holocaust Center)
Posted inObituaries

Tauba Weiss, Holocaust survivor and local activist, dies at 100

by Sue Fishkoff June 20, 2025June 20, 2025
Elderly woman stretching
Posted inObituaries

Agnes Keleti, Holocaust survivor who won 10 Olympic gymnastics medals, dies at 103

Philissa Cramer by Philissa Cramer January 2, 2025January 2, 2025
An old woman speaks into a microphone
Posted inBay Area

Marin teens sit rapt as Holocaust survivor, 94, tells her story

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb October 24, 2024October 24, 2024
Emil Knopf with a Sinai Memorial Chapel hat on at Sinai's Hanukkah outreach booth in San Francisco's Union Square, 2022. Sinai was one of many Jewish organizations Knopf donated his time to over the years. (Courtesy)
Posted inObituaries

Emil Knopf, Holocaust survivor, Levi Strauss executive, community volunteer dies at 91

by Dan Pine July 5, 2024July 8, 2024
Group of protesters
Posted inObituaries

Ben Stern, Berkeley survivor who kept fighting for justice, dies at 102

Alix Wall by Alix Wall March 3, 2024
"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
Survivor David Wisnia and his pianist grandson Avi in a scene from “How Saba Kept Singing,” a documentary airing on PBS on April 18. (Photo/JTA-Retro Report)
Posted inYom HaShoah

Can a Holocaust documentary have a happy ending? Should it?

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA April 17, 2023
(From left) San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, Councilmember David Cohen, Holocaust survivor Tamar Jacobs and Jewish Silicon Valley's Jessica Blitchok. (Photo/Courtesy David Cohen)
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San Jose officials mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day

by J. Staff January 31, 2023

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