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International Holocaust Remembrance Day is Monday, January 27, 2025, marking the anniversary of the Red Army liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.At a time when antisemitism and ...
Engraving of the confession in poetic form presented at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts "First They Came" (German: Als Sie Kamen lit. ' When They Came ', or Habe Ich Geschwiegen lit. ' I Did Not Speak Out '), is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller ...
Thomas "Toivi" Blatt (born Tomasz Blatt; April 15, 1927 – October 31, 2015) was a Holocaust survivor, [2] writer of mémoires, and public speaker, who at the age of 16 escaped from the Sobibór extermination camp during the uprising staged by the Jewish prisoners in October 1943.
Gerda Weissmann Klein (May 8, 1924 – April 3, 2022) was a Polish-born American writer and human rights activist. Her autobiographical account of the Holocaust, All But My Life (1957), was adapted for the 1995 short film, One Survivor Remembers, which received an Academy Award and an Emmy Award, and was selected for the National Film Registry.
Holocaust survivor shares her story to inspire next generation. Madeleine Wright. January 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM ... Glick was finally able to come out of hiding when World War II ended in 1945. She ...
A World War II veteran reunited with a Holocaust survivor whom he freed from a Nazi death camp 71 years ago, and the incredible moment was captured on camera.
Susan Pollack OBE (born 9 September 1930) is a Hungarian-born British Holocaust survivor and Holocaust educational speaker. During the Holocaust, she was interned at Auschwitz-Birkenau for 10 weeks before being sent to Guben in Germany to work in an armaments factory, and later, by death march, to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she was liberated by the British Army on 15 April 1945.
Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (10 August 1889 – 9 April 1968), Polish writer and World War II resistance fighter, co-founder the wartime Polish organization Żegota. Released through the efforts of the Polish underground. Henri Landwirth (March 7, 1927 – April 16, 2018), Belgian philanthropist and founder of Give Kids the World (survived).