“For a Jewish kid from Pittsburgh to be buried with German soldiers under three Latin crosses, it just tore at my heart!”
“I wanted readers to see and feel what it was like to be a child subjected to intensive bombing,” writes Marione Ingram, who as a child survived the Allied bombing of Hamburg, Germany, in 1943.
A fortune teller predicted Morris Waitz would die in World War II. Now 100, he says he “beat that by a little bit.”
Antisemitic sculpture must remain at a church in Germany. Suspected terrorist attack on Jews making a pilgrimage in Tunisia. Rudy Giuliani mocks Jewish traditions in the U.S. Read more in this week’s Antisemitism Monitor Newsletter.
Bricha guides didn’t allow refugees to carry lights, not only to be invisible to border guards but also so they could not see the plunging drop-offs beside the trail.
Although the Shanghai ghetto was in one of the most dilapidated parts of the city, it was totally unlike the Nazi ghettos of Europe.
“There was no food, no heat. My mother scavenged for wood from bombed and abandoned houses to get heat. Eventually, the Iron Curtain closed the country. My parents felt that we had no future there. We were considered too bourgeois.”
These are the words of Faye Schulman, who, at age 16 during World War II, fled to the forests outside her hometown of Lenin, Poland, after witnessing her entire family being executed by the Nazis.
Penny and Peter first met on a kibbutz in Palestine, where they both moved to escape the second World War. They were separated when she moved to England, only to be reunited years later, after he had become a famous singer in Israel.
During the mid 19th century, the island’s Jewish population reached 900, but after much emigration, by World War II only around 300 Jews were left, all in Hania.
