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by Adam Ross
by Menucha Chana Levin
Margit (Gitta) Mallasz, swimming champion, artist and writer, saved 100 Jewish women and children in Budapest.
by Lori Samlin Miller
The heroic actions of 200 inmates at Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp is the subject of new film, “Dirty Bomb.”
by Rabbi Shraga Simmons
Josef Levkovich’s dramatic encounters with the villain of Schindler’s List. An Aish.com exclusive.
by Jody Berkel
There is no greater victory over the enemies of the Jewish people than living as proud, strong and connected Jews.
How the football-playing Swiss policeman chose morality and compassion over his career.
Arik Brik was a young boy when he survived the Holocaust. He moved to Israel with his family where he reached great prominence.
by Tswi J. Herschel
A gripping story that takes place in the Amsterdam ghetto, 1943 – as experienced by the author’s father.
Survivors testify about an epic Seder held in underground bunkers as the Nazis sought to liquidate the last Jews of Warsaw Ghetto.
by Rabbi Ari Bensoussan and NesProductions
Why do we celebrate that in every generation enemies will try to eradicate the Jews?
by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller
John and Amy Israel Pregulman have made it their mission to help elderly Holocaust survivors.
After surviving the horrors of the Holocaust, Yantu Weisz lived independent and strong till age 109.
by Erica Silver
As a child, the horrors of the Holocaust mirrored the incendiary chaos of my home life.
by Elliott Smith
Through faith and courage, John and Sonja Franken’s love was meant to be.
by aish.com
Vilma Grunwald’s haunting letter to her husband, written right before her murder.
A bestselling novel is reminding readers of real-life cases of Italian heroism in the face of danger.
Four remarkable stories that some Muslims don’t want to be publicized.
This French Jewish hero recently died at the age of 108.
Eberhard and Donata Helmrich were a heroic, righteous couple who risked their lives to save Jews.
by Adina Hershberg
The heroic Jew died this past Shabbat at the age of 94.
Woman who told the world about the secret death camp passes away at age 96.
by Daniel Gefen
Enduring 18 concentration camps, he was saved by a shovel, a siren, and horse manure.
by BESE
One of the largest rescue missions during the Holocaust is also one of its least known.
Elsa Koditschek hid under the noses of the SS family who’d stolen her home.
by Yad Vashem
The vast archive buried under the Warsaw Ghetto included these two wills that describe their lives and lament the fate of Europe’s Jews.
The archive remains the largest collection of Jewish documentation detailing the fate of the Jews under Nazi rule.
Standing up for Jews, Dr. Hautval was sent to Auschwitz where she was asked to assist in medical experiments performed in Block 10.
The legendary singer recently passed away at age 94.
by Gina Frankel
For a little while, we forgot the straw, the supervisors and the prison.
Dom Bruno joined the resistance and at great risk to his life established a network of hiding places for Jewish children.
The liberation of concentration camps by the US Army at the end of WWII.
Hidden and raised as a Christian in an convent, Yehudit had to make a fateful decision that would shape the course of her life.
Given to non-Jewish strangers by his parents when he was a baby, Tswi’s traumatic early years led him to fulfill the dreams of his murdered parents.
The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
A century ago, one of Europe's great musicians tried to erase her Jewish heritage. Instead, she heroically saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
by Ronda Robinson
A new book reveals the fascinating story of Swiss Jews who convinced Himmler to destroy Auschwitz and stop exterminating Jews.
by Barbara Bank
During the Holocaust my mother saved my father’s life at great risk to her own.
by Jerusalem U
During WWII, record-breaking Italian cyclist Gino Bartali used his bicycle to smuggle forged documents, saving 800 Jews from death.
by Hannah Klein
Carl Lutz accomplished more, with less fanfare, than any other Holocaust rescuer.
by Linda Miriam
Joshua Kaufman refuses to let his horrific Holocaust experiences stop him from joyfully living life.
van Hulst and his allies rescued 600 Jewish children. For the rest of his life his main regret was not saving more.
This unassuming man was a hero who led a dangerous double life in Nazi Germany as head of Britain’s intelligence service.
by Josie Griffiths
Leslie Kleinman arrived in Auschwitz on his 15th birthday and never saw his family again.
by Rabbi Yosef Wallis
A powerful true story of Jewish heroism.
by Salvador Litvak
While Herman Goering was killing Jews, his brother worked tirelessly to save them.
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