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Holocaust survivor

A local boy enjoys Ziggy's Playground during the opening event in Kigali, Rwanda, July 9, 2022.
Posted inPhilanthropy

Ziggy’s Playground: San Francisco family builds joy in Rwanda

by Dan Pine August 4, 2022August 5, 2022
Sonia Apfelblum, a Holocaust survivor, became a bat mitzvah at Peninsula Temple Beth El in San Mateo on May 12, 2022. (Photo/Miri Ekshtein)
Posted inBay Area

Two Holocaust survivors celebrate long-delayed b’nai mitzvah in San Mateo

by Dan Pine June 21, 2022June 23, 2022
Second gentleman Doug Emhoff, second from left, speaks to an interactive artificial intelligence video of Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter, June 2022. (Photo/Jacob Gurvis)
Posted inCalifornia

Doug Emhoff spoke to a Holocaust survivor — and his AI twin — at a cutting-edge exhibit in Los Angeles

Jacob Gurvis by Jacob Gurvis and JTA June 9, 2022June 9, 2022
Jon and Lissa Kaplan during the repair of the "Familant Torah," which will soon depart Palo Alto for Israel.
Posted inBay Area

‘Survivor Torah’ scroll will journey from Palo Alto to Israel this summer

Lillian Ilsley-Greene by Lillian Ilsley-Greene May 12, 2022May 25, 2022
Holocaust survivors rescued from the war in Ukraine arrive at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, April 27, 2022. (Photo/JTA-Tomer Neuberg-Flash90)
Posted inNews

Ukrainian Holocaust survivors land in Israel on eve of Yom HaShoah

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA April 28, 2022
The war in Ukraine was on the mind of Monique Joseph as she celebrated her 98th birthday.
Posted inUncategorized

As a Holocaust survivor, I feel angst over what’s going on in Ukraine 

Monique Joseph celebrating her 98th birthday in Berkeley, April 14, 2022. (Photo/Courtesy Nadine Joseph) by Monique Joseph April 18, 2022May 11, 2022
Borys Romanchenko at the former Buchenwald concentration camp. (Photo/JTA-Courtesy Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials Foundation)
Posted inUncategorized

Holocaust survivor Borys Romanchenko, who lived through 4 Nazi camps, killed in Ukraine by Russia strike

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA March 22, 2022
Story Project member Peter Krohn speaks to Wheatland students about his family's experience in the Holocaust. (Photo/Gabe Stutman)
Posted inEducation

Teens from viral swastika photo face Holocaust survivor families

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman March 14, 2022March 14, 2022
Assembly candidate and farmer Steve Schwartz with one of his farm friends. (Photo/Liz Harris)
Posted inUncategorized

Meet Steve Schwartz, the Jewish farmer running for Assembly in the North Bay

by Liz Harris February 8, 2022February 15, 2022
Leon Rajninger was born in Czernowitz, Romania in 1931 and was 10 years old when the Nazis invaded in 1941.
Posted inBay Area

Diplomats join local survivor for Holocaust Remembrance Day event

by Dan Pine January 28, 2022

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