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Culture They survived harrowing Holocaust ordeals — and found extraordinary new lives in the U.S.
Six stories highlight the lasting trauma of the Shoah — and the ways survivors came to thrive, afterward
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Fast Forward ‘Club 2600’ is Brooklyn’s hottest party — for Holocaust survivors
Scenes from a monthly gathering thrown by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Coney Island, which serves some 3,000 survivors in the borough.
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Fast Forward Number of living Holocaust survivors is about 245,000, according to new analysis
The oldest known survivor is Rose Girone, 112, of Queens, New York. Her family escaped Germany in 1938 and lived out the war in Shanghai
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Fast Forward Holocaust survivor who became a bat mitzvah at 91 dies in Buenos Aires
Eugenia Unger was a founding member of the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires
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News A Greek Holocaust survivor in Vermont knows how to save humanity. He just needs us to listen.
The magical life of Albert Levis, a scholar of storytelling who has lived through his own improbable tale
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Opinion I didn’t understand Holocaust denial until Oct. 7
My survivor grandmother feared that no one would believe her. Now I know why.
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Fast Forward In a shift, Latvia and Lithuania are paying Holocaust survivors and heirs for their stolen property
The Lithuania program is open to applications only until Dec. 31
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Fast Forward Holocaust survivors and their descendants thank Biden for Israel support
‘What is happening today brings back my terrible memories,’ wrote one
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