World War II
For Our Children
Week after week, we continue to assist families on their journey from Ukraine to Israel via...
Restoring Faith in Humanity
Hanging in Yad Vashem is a huge painting of a man taking an emaciated young boy by the hand and...
Menachem Begin Made History
Until today, the most often-quoted and most popular Prime Minister to ever lead the State of...
Writing from the heart
In 1938, without any persuasion from Germany, the government of Hungary adopted the notorious...
The Blessings of Giving
Since the war in Ukraine broke out, there has been the occasional article in the Israeli press...
The Man Who Never Gave Up
In 1941, Boris Romantschenko was only 15 years old when the Nazis invaded his home town in Ukraine...
Hollywood and the Holocaust
Right in the middle of World War Two, buried deep in the November 25th, 1942 edition of the New...
Louis Polak survived World War II by going into hiding seventeen times
As a child, Louis Polak lived with his parents in Amsterdam when the Second World War broke out. He...
The Vengeance of Cleaning
The recently deceased 95-year-old Binyamin Werzberger was very widely known in Israel. He was a...
Checkmate
Every few decades a true prodigy emerges in the likes of art, music and science. It is difficult to...
It’s sad that Holocaust denial needs to be criminalized
Thursday 14 October was a special day. I was in Leeuwarden, a city in the north of The Netherlands...
A Polish Jew Who Made the Desert Bloom
Simcha Blass, a Polish Jew who emigrated to Israel a decade before World War II, changed the world...
100th Anniversary of the Salzburg Festival (1920-2020)
28 ‘stumbling stones’ laid in memory of artists who were deported, murdered, or fled during the Naz...
An incomprehensible history – my journey through Ukraine
Atrocities, willpower, poverty, enthusiasm —it was all part of my journey through Ukraine. Together...
The Iranian Schindler
Abdol Hossein Sardari, an Iranian diplomat stationed in Paris, went to extraordinary lengths to...
Tending a Mass Grave
By Marijke Terlouw and Carmen Ullersma.. Rita Schweibes (picture below) was born 30 August 1936 in...
Thank You For Not Forgetting Us!
A fresh breeze is blowing, carrying first the Ukrainian, then the Israeli national anthem, th...
Students Don’t Know about the Holocaust and WWII
Jerry Amernic author of The Last Witness asks university students what they know about the...
In a Ukraine forest, terrible events of 75 years ago given resonance by handful of survivors
By Sue Surkes.. Uman, Ukraine — As veterans across Europe turned out this week (May 5 - 9, 2017) f...