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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 430

Holocaust survivors

Claude Monet's "Bord de Mer," 1865. (Artsy)
October 9, 2024, 8:45 pm
FBI returns Nazi-looted Monet pastel to Jewish owners’ heirs 84 years later
Descendants of Viennese Jews Adalbert ‘Bela’ and Hilda Parlagi receive 1865 ‘Bord de Mer,’ depicting Normandy countryside, located in US after decades of postwar searching
By Sarah N. Lynch
Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert and Dov Forman, authors of 'Lily's Promise.' (Courtesy)
October 9, 2024, 6:22 pm
Lily Ebert, Holocaust survivor who reached millions on social media, dies at 100
A native of Hungary, Ebert survived Auschwitz and built a family — first in the new State of Israel, then in the UK — and in recent years became a social media superstar
By Gila Kalman and ToI Staff
In this photo taken on Thursday Jan. 30, 2020, Victor Perahia, interned as a child in the Drancy camp and deported to Bergen-Belsen shows a Jewish badge as he speaks to students during a workshop dedicated to the Holocaust remembrance at the Drancy Shoah memorial, outside Paris (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
October 3, 2024, 7:23 pm
Victor Perahia, Holocaust survivor, head of French Union of Auschwitz Deportees, dies at 91
After years of silence, Perahia became a leading Holocaust educator; Macron: Ever-present ‘racism and antisemitism tormented him and fueled his strength to awaken minds’
By AP
Frank W. Baker's book "We Survived the Holocaust," featuring illustrations by Tim Ogline, tells the real-life story of Bluma Tishgarten and Felix Goldberg. (Courtesy Imagine and Wonder)
September 11, 2024, 12:10 pm
South Carolina school district bans graphic novel about local Holocaust survivors
Author of ‘We Survived the Holocaust’ says he’s ‘shocked, appalled and dismayed’ as authorities cite new state guidelines on which books are ‘appropriate’ for middle schoolers
By Andrew Lapin
Boar's Head meats are displayed at a Safeway store on July 31, 2024 in San Rafael, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America/Getty Images via AFP)
September 4, 2024, 10:15 pm
Family of Holocaust survivor files first lawsuit in Boar’s Head listeria outbreak
88-year-old Günter ‘Garshon’ Morgenstein fell ill after eating a Boar’s Head liverwurst sandwich and died on July 18 after being diagnosed with listeria and meningitis
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Karmela Waldman with her son Joel Waldman with Joel's new book, 'Surviving the Survivor,' in Toronto, May 2024. (Robert Sarner)
August 21, 2024, 1:19 am
True crime podcast by a Holocaust survivor and her son catapults them to unlikely fame
Karmela Waldman and her son Joel attract millions each month with their unique series ‘Surviving the Survivor.’ Now Joel has penned a book about their lives with the same name
By Robert Sarner
Shalom Korai poses for a picture with members of his extended family just after he met them in person for the first time on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, in North Charleston, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
July 12, 2024, 6:37 am
Holocaust survivor who never met any family finds cousins through DNA testing
Saved from the streets of Warsaw in 1943, Shalom Korai had long accepted that he had no relatives, until a sample submitted to MyHeritage matched that of a woman in South Carolina
By Jeffrey Collins
Margot Friedlander, 102, is on the cover of the July/August Vogue Germany edition. At right, she appears during an event at the Bundestag in January 2024. (Michele Tantussi/AFP/Getty Images via JTA)
June 21, 2024, 12:03 am
Vogue Germany’s next cover model is a 102-year-old Holocaust survivor
Margot Friedländer moved back to Berlin when she was 89 years old, decades after surviving Theresienstadt, and has since become a local celebrity
By PHILISSA CRAMER
From left: Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, Kai Hoss and Hans Jurgen Hoss meet at Anita's apartment in 'The Commandant's Shadow.' (Courtesy Warner Bros. Presents)
May 30, 2024, 3:09 pm
True-life ‘Zone of Interest’: In documentary, Auschwitz head’s descendants meet survivor
‘The Commandant’s Shadow,’ out in US theaters this week, looks at coming to terms with the past from the perspective of victims as well as the family of notorious Nazi Rudolf Höss
By Rich Tenorio
Sara Jackson hugs a survivor of the Nova party in Tel Aviv on May 2, 2024. (Nova Tribe Foundation)
May 9, 2024, 4:28 pm
Nova party escapees reunite with Holocaust survivor who sheltered them
Three women who lived through the Nazi genocide offer advice and inspiration to partygoers who escaped deadliest massacre of October 7, urging them to focus on future
By Canaan Lidor
Dan Hadani visits the National Library of Israel during Passover in April 2024 (David Peretz/National Library of Israel)
May 8, 2024, 2:13 pm
100-year-old who shaped Israeli photojournalism takes stage to share Holocaust survival
Cultural icon Dan Hadani survived the Lodz Ghetto and multiple Nazi camps. A lifelong chronicler, he continues to tell his story at the National Library of Israel
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Hundreds of strangers attend the funeral of Holocaust survivor Esther Greizer in Haifa on May 6, 2024 (Screen grab via Channel 12 news)
May 6, 2024, 4:14 pm
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, hundreds of strangers attend funeral of Auschwitz survivor
Esther Greizer, 95, who died overnight and was laid to rest in Haifa, was unable to have children after being subjected to experiments as a child at the death camp
By ToI Staff
Oldrich Stransky, b. 1921, photographed in Prague, Czech Republic, 2014. (Dennis Carlyle Darling)
May 6, 2024, 3:48 am
Last Terezin survivors memorialized by US photographer in decade-long project
Dennis Darling’s recently published large-format book includes black-and-white portraits and moving testimonies of Jews who were children and teens in Nazi ghetto near Prague
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Tamara Kolitz, an endocrinologist from Tel Aviv-Sourasky Medical Center cares for a Holocaust survivor in his home. (Courtesy of LeMa'anam)
May 5, 2024, 6:58 am
How a cadre of 1,500 MDs began paying house calls to Israel’s Holocaust survivors
Post-October 7, non-profit LeMa’anam faces greater challenges in meeting the medical needs of elderly survivors, many who have been re-traumatized by the war
By Renee Ghert-Zand
A very young Elida (left) with Stanislava and her daughter Audra, who hid Elida (renamed Rita) on their farm from late 1943 to the end of the war. (Courtesy of Zipora Klein Jakob)
May 4, 2024, 7:10 am
The amazing true story of a baby illegally born and smuggled out of Kovno ghetto
Elida Freidman Goldberg Katzman changed names, families, countries and continents numerous times as she grappled until her premature death with being a Holocaust orphan from birth
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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