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The seven Weber siblings upon their arrival at New York Harbor in May 1946. Bottom row from left: Renee, Judith, and Bela. Top row from left: Gertrude, Alfons, Senta, and Ruth. (Courtesy of United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
April 24, 2025, 2:22 am
Netflix tells tale of 7 siblings who miraculously survived the Holocaust to restart life in US
Now streaming, ‘UnBroken’ illuminates story of the Webers, who lived in hiding on a German farm for two years — only to be cruelly separated upon arrival in America
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Photos from a baby book kept by the adoptive mother who sheltered Efraim Kochava during the Holocaust (Courtesy)
May 6, 2024, 6:06 pm
Yad Vashem displays scrapbooks by women hiding Jewish babies
Holocaust museum displays three books recently added to its archives that were put together by women who hoped the children’s mothers would see them one day
By Jessica Steinberg
Elzbieta Cajzer, head of the museum's collections department, shows a collection of shoes that belonged to child victims of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau at the conservation laboratory on its grounds, Oswiecim, Poland, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
May 15, 2023, 11:24 am
Auschwitz museum begins heartrending work preserving 8,000 shoes of murdered children
In two-year effort, museum processing 100 shoes a week while other evidence, such as hair shaved from victims, turns to dust as the years pass since Holocaust
By Vanessa Gera
A tube of Czech toothpaste found where a group of 300 Holocaust survivors stayed in Troutbeck Bridge, in England's Lake District in 1945. (Twitter screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 16, 2023, 8:24 am
Czech toothpaste found near interim refuge of Holocaust survivor orphans in England
‘Windermere Children’ brought from Prague in 1945 at request of philanthropist Leonard Montefiore, briefly stayed at Lake District village before moving to hostels, permanent homes
By ToI Staff
Anton Krymskiy as Mitke in 'Nakam' (Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg / Leonard Caspari)
December 20, 2022, 4:25 am
Oscar-qualifying short film strikes chord with story of heroic young WWII partisan
Made as a film school thesis project, ‘NAKAM’ is inspired by Motele Schlein, who was killed in a Nazi ambush, but whose violin survived as symbol of resistance and is still played
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Portraits of some of the children of Auschwitz documented by Alwin Meyer. (Alwin Meyer Archive/Hubert Kreke/State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oświęcim/Zoltan Kozma/via JTA)
January 29, 2022, 4:35 pm
In ‘Children of Auschwitz,’ a German writer confronts history and himself
Alwin Meyer has devoted his life to documenting the stories of the few of the notorious death camp’s youngest members lucky enough to survive
By Toby Axelrod
The Watkins Elementary School in Washington DC where 3rd grade children were made to reenact scenes from the Holocaust in December 2021 Screencapture/Google Maps)
December 20, 2021, 3:28 am
DC 3rd graders made to reenact Holocaust ‘because Jews ruined Christmas’
Children told to simulate digging mass graves and shooting victims; Jewish student cast as Hitler and made to pretend to commit suicide at end of exercise
By ToI Staff
'Nicky & Vera' by Peter Sis (Courtesy W.W. Norton and Company); Holocaust-era hero Nicholas Winton, who helped save 669 Czech children from the Nazi invasion. (AP/Petr David Josek, File)
July 12, 2021, 2:42 am
Man who rescued 669 Czech children from Nazis is now the hero of a kids’ book
Nicholas Winton helped organize Kindertransports that carried young people to safety on the eve of war. ‘Nicky & Vera,’ by author and illustrator Peter Sis, now honors his legacy
By Rich Tenorio
A demonstrator carries a cross with the inscription "German Constitution Law" during a protest against measures imposed by the German government to limit the spread of the coronavirus, on November 18, 2020 near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. (Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)
November 22, 2020, 4:15 pm
German FM slams anti-mask protesters for ‘making a mockery’ of Nazi victims
Heiko Maas says recent comparison to Anne Frank and resistance fighter Sophie Scholl ‘trivializes the Holocaust and shows an unbearable forgetting of history’
By Michelle Fitzpatrick
One of the documents found in the shoes belonging to victims of Auschwitz camp, July 2020. (Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum via JTA)
July 22, 2020, 10:56 am
Identifying inscriptions are discovered in shoes of children sent to Auschwitz
Death camp museum employees say one pair belonged to Amos Steinberg, born in 1938; they hope more detailed research will reveal details about each individual
By Katarzyna Markusz
Forced laborers captured in a rare snapshot that was discarded by the posing Hungarian soldier (far left). (Courtesy)
April 20, 2020, 4:17 pm
LISTEN: Gripping saga of teen’s escape from WWII death march to join partisans
To commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day, we hear from two Holocaust survivors with very different tales of survival in war-torn Europe — and today
By ToI Staff
Holocaust survivor Irene Shashar acknowledges applause after speaking during a Holocaust memorial event at U.N. headquarters, Monday, January 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
January 28, 2020, 5:47 pm
At the UN, a hidden child survivor cries victory over Hitler
Addressing heads of states, Irene Shashar relates how she spent the Holocaust in sewers, secreted by her selfless mother, determined to see her child to a better life
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
'The Windermere Children.' Left to right: Chaim ‘Harry’ Olmer, Kacper Swietek, Arek Hersh MBE, Tomasz Studzinski, Pascal Fischer, Sir Ben Helfgott, Marek Wrobelewski, Sam Laskier, Kuba Sprenger, Ike Alterman (BBC/Wall to Wall/ZDF/ Helen Sloan)
January 27, 2020, 2:54 am
BBC airs ‘Windermere children’: How Holocaust survivors went from hell to heaven
New dramatization portrays how children, brought from camps to tranquil paradise of the Lake District, learned to adjust to being human again
By Robert Philpot
Herbert Gildin and two of his grandchildren, Tyler Gildin, right, and Alex Utay. Utay was a producer on the film. (Courtesy Tyler Gildin)
November 13, 2019, 3:20 pm
In film, grandfather returns to Sweden to thank post-Kristallnacht saviors
In short doc ‘The Starfish,’ an extended family travels to Falun, Sweden, to meet righteous gentiles who sheltered their patriarch
By Rich Tenorio
Eva.Stories is a dramatized version of the life of Eva Heyman, a 13-year-old Jewish girl killed in Auschwitz. (Screenshot from Eva.Stories on Instagram via JTA)
May 3, 2019, 11:14 pm
Instagram Holocaust story caused controversy. Here’s what teens think
With 1.3 million followers, many feel that it brings the reality to them in away little else can; others worry the social media site isn’t an appropriate place for this
By Josefin Dolsten
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