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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 616

Holocaust survivors

Leo Borger's shop selling radios and musical instruments on Vienna’s Landstrasse Haupstrasse, in 1933, prior to being 'Aryanized' in the lead-up to the Holocaust. (Courtesy)
May 31, 2025, 10:16 am
Paper trail: How a series of ads in a WWII-era UK daily revealed a tragic family history
Julian Borger traced his father’s escape from post-Anschluss Austria via the Kindertransport by examining classifieds in The Guardian. He unravels that and similar stories in a new memoir
By Robert Philpot
Holocaust survivor Helena Weinstock Weinrauch, who wore the same hand-knit sweater to the first Passover seder every year for the past 75 years, has died at 100. (Karen Goldfarb)
May 29, 2025, 8:02 pm
Holocaust survivor, star of documentary who took up dancing at 88, dies at 100
Dusseldorf-born New Yorker Helena Weinstock Weinrauch survived a 500-mile death march from Auschwitz to Bergen-Belsen
By Jackie Hajdenberg
US director Scarlett Johansson during a photocall for the film 'Eleanor the Great' at the 78th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 21, 2025. (Sameer AL-DOUMY / AFP)
May 22, 2025, 7:27 pm
Scarlett Johansson makes directorial debut with Holocaust-tied film
Actor showcases ‘Eleanor the Great,’ about a woman who tries to pass as a Shoah survivor while making new friends in New York City; critical reaction has been mixed
By Hanna Rantala
Asaf Cafri (left), an IDF reservist who was killed in Gaza on April 25, 2025, and his great-grandmother, Holocaust survivor Magda Baratz, pictured on a billboard set up in Rishon Lezion in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the day before his death. (Oren Dai/Rishon Lezion Municipality)
May 11, 2025, 4:45 pm
Holocaust survivor dies 2 weeks after great-grandson killed in Gaza as she visited Nazi camp
Asaf Cafri died in Strip while great-grandmother Magda Baratz and his father visited Bergen-Belsen; her son says death of Asaf was ‘very hard’ for her
By Zev Stub
Holocaust Survivor Margot Friedlander appears for an event with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Thursday, June 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)
May 10, 2025, 6:43 pm
Margot Friedlander, German Holocaust survivor who landed Vogue cover, dies at 103
An outspoken voice for Holocaust education in her 80s, Friedlander was known for her ‘Be Human’ mantra, with former president Biden calling her a ‘voice of conscience’
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Asher Wolach holds a memorial photo of Rabbi Avi Goldberg, April 2025. (Gal Aharonovich/ International Fellowship of Christians and Jews)
April 30, 2025, 4:21 pm
In tearful reversal, Holocaust survivors mourn beloved IDF soldiers killed since Oct. 7
As Israelis commemorate those lost in the Shoah as well as fallen troops and terror victims, the elderly grieve for young volunteers who visited them, felled over 19 months of war
By Deborah Danan
Leslie Gelrubin Benitah, right, with her late grandmother Bajla Gelrubin on her 100th birthday. (Courtesy)
April 26, 2025, 6:00 am
Geolocated app connects Auschwitz visitors with survivors’ testimonies on horrors in camp
Titled The Last Ones, the application utilizes short interviews with Holocaust survivors to illuminate Nazi murders and torments — at camps and throughout Europe
By Rich Tenorio
An undated image of Nechama Grossman, a Holocaust survivor who passed away at age 110 on April 24, 2025. (Courtesy)
April 25, 2025, 4:28 pm
Israel’s oldest Holocaust survivor Nechama Grossman dies on Remembrance Day, aged 109
Her son urges people to ‘remember her survival, so that her past never becomes our future’; Holocaust survivor and educator Eve Kugler, 94, also dies on Remembrance Day
By ToI Staff
Holocaust survivor Irene Shashar (R) speaks to rescued hostage Ori Megidish (L), while Holocaust survivor Gita Kaufman and released hostage Agam Berger embrace, draped in an Israeli flag outside the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign at Auschwitz during March of the Living on April 24, 2025 in Oswiecim, Poland. (Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images, via JTA)
April 25, 2025, 6:39 am
‘We beat the enemy, didn’t we, girls?’ Holocaust survivor tells freed hostage soldiers
Survivors of both the Nazi-led genocide and October 7 attack attend the March of the Living at Auschwitz, with the former group torn on whether it’s appropriate to compare the two
By Deborah Danan
Rita Krasimow, left, the runner-up in the 2018 Miss Holocaust survivor beauty pageant, and one of the main protagonists in "Miss Holocaust Survivor," sits with film director Radek Wegrzyn at the screening of the film in Haifa on April 22, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
April 25, 2025, 4:53 am
At Israeli premiere, ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ director struts celebration of life
Holocaust survivors who star in award-winning documentary about controversial pageant attend Haifa screening with Polish-born filmmaker; movie set for worldwide release in January
By Diana Bletter
German troops arrest the last remaining members of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in this photo from the Stroop Report. A red line appears under Michael Smuss, with his father to his right. (National Archives Collection of World War II War Crimes Records)
April 24, 2025, 10:44 am
82 years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, its last living fighter bears witness
Michael Smuss helped smuggle supplies needed during the Jewish resistance against the Nazis; he shares how a series of ‘lucky’ accidents helped him withstand further horrors
By Zev Stub
Dr. Fadi Badarna, right, a volunteer eye doctor with LeMa’anam (“for their sake” in Hebrew), a nonprofit organization providing free home healthcare to Holocaust survivors, and Aviv Paz, a LeMa'anam employee, look at the number tattoo that Chana Sandouvsky received in Auschwitz, in her home in Kiryat Bialik on April 16, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
April 24, 2025, 8:11 am
In shadow of Holocaust and war, Arab doctors find shared humanity in caring for survivors
Volunteering for nonprofit LeMa’anam, Christian Yosif Boulos and Muslim Fadi Badarna provide home visits for elderly who lived through horrors decades ago and in wake of October 7
By Diana Bletter
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
Tzili Wenkert, a Holocaust survivor and the grandmother of Omer Wenkert who is held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, attends an event at 'Hostages Square' in Tel Aviv on October 28, 2023 (Gili Yaari /FLASH90)
April 23, 2025, 8:08 pm
Holocaust Remembrance Day marked by painful echoes amid Gaza hostage crisis
As Israel commemorates 80 years since Auschwitz’s liberation, survivors and hostage families highlight haunting resonance after October 7 and given captives’ ongoing plight
By Stav Levaton
Michael Kuperstein (left), a Holocaust survivor and the grandfather of hostage Bar Kuperstein (right), in a TV interview in February 2024. (Kan news screenshot/Courtesy)
April 23, 2025, 7:50 pm
‘It’s a second Holocaust’: Survivor pleads for return of his hostage grandson
Michael Kuperstein, whose grandson Bar Kuperstein was kidnapped from the Nova festival, will march in Auschwitz as he waits desperately for Bar to be freed from Gaza captivity
By AFP and ToI Staff
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