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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

For International Holocaust Remembrance Day in January, Silicon Valley resident Daniel Patt was flown to New York City to take part in a taping of “The View,” the popular daytime […]

Former prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp at an International Holocaust Remembrance day event at the former camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 27, 2020. (Photo/JTA-Damian Klamka-SOPA Images-LightRocket via Getty Images)
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Record Claims Conference payout to help Bay Area Holocaust survivors

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Emma Goss.(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Emma Goss March 2, 2022March 2, 2022
Helen Fixler at home in Oakland, with her certificate of recognition from the state Legislature. (MAYA MIRSKY)
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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
Holocaust survivors Sarah Yanai and Yossi Mor reunite at Yad Vashem with Melpomeni Dina (center), one of their wartime rescuers who was recognized by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations. /Courtesy of Yad Vashem
Posted inIsrael

2 Holocaust survivors reunited with their Greek rescuer for first time since WWII

by JTA November 4, 2019
Helga Newman at age 9 in Austria, April 1939
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80 years later, Palo Alto woman’s story of rescue by Kindertransport

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman April 25, 2019April 29, 2019
(Photo/Pixabay CC0)
Posted inFirst Person

In time of reflection, gratitude to my survivor grandparents

Daniel Klein by Daniel Klein September 18, 2018September 17, 2018
they stand in a circle lifting something over their heads
Posted inBay Area, News

Soviet-born Holocaust survivors thrive in Walnut Creek program

max cherney by Max A. Cherney April 13, 2017April 13, 2017
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San Mateo man escaped from Auschwitz — his story is on film

by Dan Pine April 10, 2015July 31, 2018

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