Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Holocaust survivors.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Holocaust survivors.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Holocaust survivors.
Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Holocaust survivors.
Five years after her death, Simone Veil is back in the news — in France and the US
In 2019, 70 Holocaust survivors walked the historic route from Auschwitz to Birkenau. This year, there will only be eight.
What Russians are doing to Ukrainians echoes what Soviet soldiers did to concentration camp survivors
Her tireless support for victims made us feel that sharing could be a positive thing.
Gerda Weissmann Klein, the Holocaust survivor, author, speaker, and activist died on April 3, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona at the age of 97. Her book, “All But My Life,” first written 1957 and continuously in print for the past 65 years, was among the earliest Holocaust memoirs. Her riveting survivor testimony is shown as the…
A German official has apologized to the daughter of a Holocaust survivor for demanding she return 72.55 euros that the government had mistakenly paid out to her deceased mother after she died in January. And Germany will return the money — about $80 — to the daughter, who had written a check for the amount…
Sam and Frieda Weinreich are thriving. Sam is 102-years-old and Frieda is 97. They have been married 75 years. If they are not the oldest Holocaust-surviving couple in the United States, as local Memphis news reports claim, they are certainly in the running. Frieda is tiny, like you could put her in your pocket. But…
If ever there was someone who had cause to be embittered, it would be Izzy Arbeiter, who died Friday at the age of 96. He was 14 when the German occupied his town in Plock, Poland in 1939. Soon came the ghettos, then the torturous goodbye to his parents and little brother who would be…
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