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The Astonishing Reunion between a Jewish Soldier and His Parents in a Nazi Ghetto
The Astonishing Reunion between a Jewish Soldier and His Parents in a Nazi Ghetto
Perhaps it was Manfred Gans’s cherished childhood memories in Borken, Germany, that drove his desperate search for his parents after the…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 23
Saved from the Nazis by a Dying Man
Saved from the Nazis by a Dying Man
By the time Sheila Bernard was six years old, she had taken cover from bombs at the start of World War II and hidden for short periods in…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jun 1, 2023
James McDonald Warned the World about the Nazi Threat to Jews
James McDonald Warned the World about the Nazi Threat to Jews
He Later Supported Israel as a Permanent Safe Haven
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 10, 2023
The Exodus Flag: A Symbol of the Plight of Jewish Displaced Persons
The Exodus Flag: A Symbol of the Plight of Jewish Displaced Persons
Before being forced to disembark the SS Exodus 1947, Mike Weiss removed the Zionist flag that had flown from the ship’s mast as it…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 8, 2023
From Ghetto to Concentration Camp, this Artist Never Stopped Drawing
From Ghetto to Concentration Camp, this Artist Never Stopped Drawing
From a young age, Jewish artist Halina Ołomucka was constantly drawing the world around her. So when she and her family were forced into…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Mar 31, 2023
How Jewish Holocaust Survivors Celebrated Purim
How Jewish Holocaust Survivors Celebrated Purim
Purim, a Jewish holiday observed for centuries, is a day for joyful celebrations and fun traditions such as sharing sweets, performing…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Mar 2, 2023
Desperate to Flee the Nazis, Jewish Refugees Escape Europe on a Rickety Steamboat, Survive a…
Desperate to Flee the Nazis, Jewish Refugees Escape Europe on a Rickety Steamboat, Survive a…
In May 1940, the Pentcho, a paddlewheel steamboat, departed from the Danube River in Bratislava, present-day Slovakia.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jan 30, 2023
Through Lithuania, Russia, Japan, and China, a Family Stayed Together and Survived the Holocaust
Through Lithuania, Russia, Japan, and China, a Family Stayed Together and Survived the Holocaust
Abraham and Masza Swislocki, a writer and an industrial chemist, had a son, Norbert, in 1936. Family photographs from his early years show…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jan 31, 2023
An American Couple Spent World War II in Europe Helping Refugees
An American Couple Spent World War II in Europe Helping Refugees
The Thanks They Received Were Simple but Special
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jan 23, 2023
Freedom Gained and Lost: One Family’s Holocaust Fate
Freedom Gained and Lost: One Family’s Holocaust Fate
In May of 1939, the MS St. Louis departed from Hamburg, Germany, carrying 937 passengers, mostly Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jun 10, 2022
From the Austrian Army to US Army Intelligence: The Many Lives of Otto Perl
From the Austrian Army to US Army Intelligence: The Many Lives of Otto Perl
Otto Perl, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1915, had a peaceful childhood. He never experienced antisemitism, he said. He swam, ran, and skied…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Apr 29, 2022
From Nazi-Persecuted Child to American Soldier: How Hugo Zulawski Fought Back
From Nazi-Persecuted Child to American Soldier: How Hugo Zulawski Fought Back
Hugo Zulawski was just 13 when he escaped from Nazi-controlled Vienna, Austria, in the spring of 1939. We don’t know much about his life…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Apr 29, 2022
From Street Fights to Secret Intelligence: Jewish Brothers Who Fought Back against the Nazis
From Street Fights to Secret Intelligence: Jewish Brothers Who Fought Back against the Nazis
They messed with the wrong brothers. On September 2, 1939, the day after the German invasion of Poland, two Nazi sympathizers began…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Apr 29, 2022
From Linguistic Talent to a Vocation: Aaron Finger’s US Army Journey
From Linguistic Talent to a Vocation: Aaron Finger’s US Army Journey
When Aaron Finger arrived at his US Army post in a displaced persons camp in Germany in 1946, his predecessor glibly told him, “good luck.”…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Apr 29, 2022
From Nazi Germany to the US Military: One Woman’s Story
From Nazi Germany to the US Military: One Woman’s Story
Ellen Kaufmann Boucher was born in 1920 in Mainz, Germany — also the birthplace of Johannes Gutenberg, who invented the movable-type…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Apr 29, 2022
Archives and Collections in Jeopardy: Saving Ukraine’s Historical Record
Archives and Collections in Jeopardy: Saving Ukraine’s Historical Record
Three days before war broke out, Museum contractor Kyrylo Vyslobokov had finished a two-year project to digitize archival documents from…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Mar 31, 2022
A Ukrainian Jewish Lens on World War II
A Ukrainian Jewish Lens on World War II
Yevgeny Khaldei was born to Jewish parents in 1917 in what is now Donetsk, Ukraine. His mother died during a pogrom when he was one year…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Mar 11, 2022
“Remember Max,” Urged Survivor Whose Young Husband Was Killed in the Holocaust
“Remember Max,” Urged Survivor Whose Young Husband Was Killed in the Holocaust
When Raisa “Rose” Steinberg and Max Feld were courting, writing kept their relationship alive while they lived in different cities. They…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Feb 4, 2022
When Saying Goodbye Was the Best Choice
When Saying Goodbye Was the Best Choice
Fifteen-year-old Lore Gotthelf boarded a train in July 1939 to escape Nazi Germany. Before leaving, bound for Great Britain on one of the…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Feb 2, 2022
A Father and Son Did Not Survive the Holocaust, but Their Paintings Did
A Father and Son Did Not Survive the Holocaust, but Their Paintings Did
Erich and Fritzi Geiringer were living with their 11-year-old son, Heinz, and 8-year-old daughter, Eva, in Austria in 1938, when Nazi…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Oct 21, 2021
Education Against All Odds
Education Against All Odds
Throughout the Holocaust and in its aftermath, schools provided more than education. They offered places of refuge, of hope, and of…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Aug 12, 2021
Stories from a Tower of Faces: The Guardian of Memory
Stories from a Tower of Faces: The Guardian of Memory
It is hard to fathom what Yaffa Eliach witnessed as a little girl.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Aug 2, 2021
Stories from a Tower of Faces: The Rabbi
Stories from a Tower of Faces: The Rabbi
Szymen Rozowski was the last rabbi of Eisiskes.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Aug 2, 2021
Stories from a Tower of Faces: The Toddler
Stories from a Tower of Faces: The Toddler
Avigdor Katz might be one of the best-documented victims of the September 1941 massacres in Eisiskes, now part of Lithuania. His parents…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Aug 2, 2021
Stories from a Tower of Faces: The Soccer Players
Stories from a Tower of Faces: The Soccer Players
It can feel difficult to relate to victims and survivors of the Holocaust. It feels so distant from our lives today. But it happened just…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Aug 2, 2021
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