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Holocaust survivor

Memorial stolperstiene, or "stumbling blocks," are laid in front of a formerly Jewish home in Görlitz. (Photo/Courtesy Lauren Leiderman)
Posted inNews

Return to Görlitz: survivors’ descendants lay memorial stones in Germany

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 28, 2021December 29, 2021
Dave Pell calls himself "Managing Editor of the Internet." (Photo/Adam Moore)
Posted inBooks

‘Please Scream’: New book revisits 2020’s collective nervous breakdown

by J. Staff November 2, 2021November 2, 2021
Eddie Jaku shows the concentration camp number tattoo on his left arm, July 2, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Louise Kennerley-The Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images)
Posted inObituaries

Holocaust survivor who called himself ‘The Happiest Man on Earth’ dies at 101

Gabe Friedman by Gabe Friedman and JTA October 13, 2021
Vitali Voskoboinik stands with his daughter, Yulia Nedzvetski, in the garden of his home at Terrace Senior Housing in Pacifica. (Photo/Lea Loeb)
Posted inBay Area

This Holocaust refugee was on death’s doorstep. But with the help of his daughter, he beat Covid-19 against all odds.

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb August 16, 2021August 16, 2021
Mine E. Grassetti's children line up to shovel earth onto her coffin at the Sonora Hebrew Cemetery, July 8: (from left) Daniel Grassetti, Richard Grassetti, Elizabeth Grassetti and Silvia Grassetti-Kruglikov. (Photo/Union Democrat-Shelly Thorene)
Posted inNorthern California

Sonora Hebrew Cemetery hosts final burial for Holocaust survivor

by Giuseppe Ricapito July 26, 2021
As a young girl, Lori Shearn was saved from the Nazis through a brief ad in the London Jewish Chronicle.
Posted inBay Area, World, History, News, Seniors

How 20 words in a Jewish newspaper saved this Marin woman from the Holocaust

by Mathilde Frot June 9, 2021
A rose is placed on the Berlin Holocaust Memorial on International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27, 2021. (Photo/JTA-Maja Hitij-Getty Images)
Posted inReligion

How a new Holocaust ‘seder’ is preparing for a post-survivor world

Shira Hanau by Shira Hanau and JTA April 7, 2021April 7, 2021
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
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio visited the Ezra Medical Center to speak with Holocaust survivors who were getting their Covid-19 shots. (Photo/JTA-Twitter-@NYCMayor)
Posted inU.S.

Germany funds vaccination drive for Holocaust survivors

by Andrew Silow-Carroll and JTA March 24, 2021
Alon Shaya (right) helped Steven Fenves experience the taste of his pre-Holocaust childhood. (Photos/U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum; Rush Jagoe)
Posted inUncategorized

Star chef Alon Shaya helps a Holocaust survivor recreate recipes from his youth

by Margaret Littman and JTA March 3, 2021March 3, 2021

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