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Holocaust survivor and Italian life senator Liliana Segre. Photo: Screenshot. Liliana Segre — the 90 year-old Holocaust survivor and senator in the Italian parliament — received a slew of antisemitic comments this week after she issued a message encouraging older adults to vaccinate themselves against COVID-19. Segre received the first of the two-shot vaccine in […]
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Italian-Jewish Auschwitz Survivor Liliana Segre Targeted by Antisemites for Promoting COVID-19 Vaccinations
February 24th, 2021 
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No Comments »Pope Francis visits Holocaust survivor in Rome
February 21st, 2021 Awake Goy On Saturday, Pope Francis made a visit to Edith Bruck, a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor, at her home in Rome.Vatican News reported the pope reading an interview given by Bruck for Holocaust Memorial Day, and “felt deeply moved” by her story and wanted to meet her in person.Bruck was born into a poor Jewish family and […]
Irit Amiel, Holocaust survivor and renowned author, dies at 89 in Israel
February 18th, 2021 Awake Goy Renown Polish-born Israeli writer & Holocaust survivor Irit Amiel has died, died at age 89, Polish website Culture.pl announced on Twitter. She was 89. Very sad news… Polish-born Israeli writer & Holocaust survivor Irit Amiel (n. Irena Librowicz) has passed away at the age of 89. Her words & her testimony will be read & […]
French Holocaust survivor’s son equates Jews to lambs
February 13th, 2021 Awake Goy Arno Klarsfeld, the son of the well-known French Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, said on television that a lamb at a slaughterhouse is the same as a Jew arriving at the gas chamber. Arno Klarsfeld, a 55-year-old lawyer and author, made the remark during an interview Wednesday on i24 news channel about his […]
Holocaust survivor and her rabbi son punched on London bus
February 13th, 2021 Awake Goy A woman on a London bus punched an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor and her son, a rabbi. The Feb. 9 incident was reported Friday by the Jewish News of London Friday based on accounts by the Shomrim community protection team and the Campaign Against Antisemitism watchdog group. Witnesses said the woman told the alleged victims, “I […]
Uttarakhand flash flood survivor: ‘I ravaged nature every day. Today a tree saved my life’
February 12th, 2021 Awake Goy An Indian excavator operator who digs up the earth and levels hillsides for a living, narrowly dodged death on Sunday by clinging onto a tree following massive flash floods in northern Uttarakhand state, and says he now has newfound respect for nature. Vikram Chauhan, 49, was at work as usual on Sunday at the Rishiganga […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: every, Flash, flood, Nature, ravaged, survivor, uttarakhand No Comments »New leader of Tucson’s Holocaust museum is a genocide survivor herself
February 9th, 2021 Awake Goy JTA via Arizona Jewish Post — The Holocaust museum in Arizona’s second-largest city has tapped a Jewish survivor of an African genocide as its new leader. The board of directors at the Jewish History Museum/Holocaust History Center in Tucson unanimously selected Gugulethu Moyo in November to become its executive director, making her likely the first […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Genocide, herself, Holocaust, leader, museum, survivor, tucson No Comments »Seven years later, Yazidi survivor buries father slain by Islamic State
February 9th, 2021 Awake Goy News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Holocaust survivor shocked to see Nazi symbols in Capitol Hill riot
February 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy When Irene Fogel Weiss watched rioters storm the US Capitol, just miles from her home in suburban Virginia, her thoughts turned to her parents murdered by the Nazis nearly 80 years earlier. “As I was watching, I was thinking maybe I shouldn’t be like my parents,” the 90-year-old Holocaust survivor told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. […]
Holocaust survivor requests residency for his rescuer’s descendants
February 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy A Holocaust survivor in Israel is pleading with authorities there to allow the great-granddaughter of his rescuer to live in the Jewish state with her parents. Simi Liebel has written to Israel’s Interior Ministry asking the ministry to reverse its rejection of the residency application of Marloes Sonnenveld, a university student studying in Jerusalem. Her […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Descendants, Holocaust, requests, rescuer, residency, survivor No Comments »The Son of a Holocaust Survivor Remembers
January 27th, 2021 Awake Goy Melcher de Wind, my distant nephew, has mixed feelings about “herdenkings,” or commemorations. To him, Holocaust Remembrance Day 2021 marks the end of a year full of commemorations of the Holocaust and his beloved father, Eddy de Wind, who wrote his memoir in real-time during the 16 months he spent in Nazi captivity during World […]
On eve of Auschwitz anniversary, survivor saddened by US Capitol attack
January 27th, 2021 Awake Goy As the 76th anniversary on Wednesday of the liberation of Auschwitz draws closer, Bill Harvey, who survived the concentration camp, said he was shocked by displays of anti-Semitism during the US Capitol riot. Some of the supporters of former President Donald Trump who broke into and ransacked the seat of Congress on Jan. 6 wore […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: anniversary, attack, auschwitz, capitol, saddened, survivor No Comments »‘Humans of Holocaust’ exhibition presents portraits, survivor experiences
January 27th, 2021 Awake Goy A new online photographic exhibition portraying Holocaust survivors and their personal stories is set to be unveiled on Wednesday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Called Humans of the Holocaust, the project is the brainchild of photographer Erez Kaganovitz who says he came up with the idea after seeing a poll showing that two-thirds of American millennials […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: exhibition, experiences, Holocaust, humans, portraits, presents, survivor No Comments »29-year-old composer releases ‘Kaddish’ for survivor grandfather on top label
January 25th, 2021 Awake Goy Swedish composer Jacob Mühlrad’s new work, “Kaddish,” begins with an amorphous rumble. To this writer, the deep tones were reminiscent of trains rolling on their tracks, truly an amazing feat for an a cappella choir. Speaking with The Times of Israel from his Stockholm studio via Zoom ahead of the piece’s official release, Mühlrad smiled […]
Iancu Tucarman, Romanian Holocaust survivor, dies from COVID-19 at 98
January 13th, 2021 Awake Goy Iancu Tucarman, a Holocaust survivor from Romania, was buried earlier this week after dying from coronavirus at age 98 during the week prior, according to an Associated Press report. Numerous people gathered for Tucarman’s funeral in Bucharest, Romania, to honor his life and remember the enormous impact of the Holocaust in general. According to the […]
Iancu Tucarman, Romanian Holocaust Survivor, dies from COVID at 98
January 13th, 2021 Awake Goy Iancu Tucarman, a Holocaust survivor from Romania, was buried earlier this week after contracting coronavirus at age 98 during the week prior, according to an Associated Press (AP) report. Numerous people gathered for Tucarman’s funeral in Bucharest, Romania, to honor his life and remember the enormous impact of the Holocaust generally. According to the AP […]
Holocaust Survivor Freda Gleitman Goldstein, 94
January 12th, 2021 Awake Goy October 10, 1926 – January 8, 2021 Beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother Freda Gleitman Goldstein, born Freda Weinstock, passed away on January 8, 2020 from complications related to Covid-19. Freda grew up in Poland in a home filled with love, song and laughter. She lived with her parents, four siblings and grandparents. Freda was […]
98-year-old Holocaust survivor is first to receive vaccine in Greek city
January 7th, 2021 Awake Goy Ninety-eight-year-old Zena Santicario-Satsuglou, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, is the first person to receive the coronavirus vaccine in Thessaloniki, Greece.The city’s vaccine campaign only began on Tuesday, and medical staff began to implement vaccinations at Santicario-Satsuglou’s Jewish nursing home in Thessaloniki, named after Shaul Modiano, Ynet reported.Santicario-Satsuglou chose to live in the Jewish nursing home in […]
Holocaust survivor pens NYT op-ed on how COVID is ‘stealing’ her years
January 5th, 2021 Awake Goy When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Toby Levy thought: “I’m a miracle. I will make it. I have to make it.” That’s because Levy, as she explains in a New York Times op-ed published Sunday, is an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor from what was then Poland and is now Ukraine. She survived by hiding in a cellar […]
Survivor talks at the Sydney Jewish Museum resume
December 23rd, 2020 Awake Goy December 23, 2020 by Community newsdesk Read on for article Talks by Holocaust survivors will resume in the Sydney Jewish Museum over the summer period. Survivors will give ticketed talks on Tuesdays and Thursdays in December and January as well as survivors on the floor of the museum talking to visitors on Wednesdays in January. Survivor […]
A church was built on Polish Holocaust survivor’s land. Now her daughter reclaims it
December 18th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Posted in Jewish News Tags: built, church, daughter, Holocaust, polish, reclaims, survivor No Comments »Ed Asner Plays a Holocaust Survivor in ‘Tiger Within’
December 17th, 2020 Awake Goy The unlikely friendship between Samuel, an elderly, lonely Holocaust survivor and Casey, an angry 14-year-old runaway sex worker with a bad attitude and a swastika on her leather jacket, is the premise of “Tiger Within,” a redemptive story about the power of forgiveness and unconditional love to transform lives and overcome ignorance, fear and hate. […]
Belarus fines Holocaust survivor displaying symbolic protest flag
December 17th, 2020 Awake Goy An 87-year-old Holocaust survivor in Belarus was convicted of an “unauthorized mass action” and fined nearly a month’s worth of her pension income for displaying on her balcony the country’s former red and white flag, which has become a symbol of the protest movement against the nation’s authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko. Elizaveta Yakovlevna Bursova, who […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Belarus, displaying, fines, Holocaust, protest, survivor, symbolic No Comments »Polish Holocaust survivor’s family wins suit for land illegally sold
December 17th, 2020 Awake Goy The Supreme Court of Poland upheld a 6-year-old ruling in favor of the descendants of a Holocaust survivor who had sued to reclaim from a Krakow-area church ownership of land stolen from her. Monday’s decision by the court’s Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Rights ends a protracted legal battle by the family of Blanka […]
World’s Youngest Holocaust Survivor Claims Her Mother Gave Birth To Her On The Way To The Gas Chambers™
December 15th, 2020 Awake Goy When Eva Clarke, a relatively young-looking woman showed up to have her picture taken with Holocaust survivors in Great Britain for an upcoming photo-book, the incredulous photographer, Matt Writtle, felt compelled to ask her how it was possible that such a young person survived the Holocaust — and the answer he got was equally unbelievable: […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: birth, claims, Holocaust, mother, survivor, world, youngest No Comments »Ask a Survivor: award for the Jewish Holocaust Centre
December 11th, 2020 Awake Goy December 11, 2020 by J-Wire Newsdesk Read on for article The Jewish Holocaust Centre has received an award from the Australian Museums and Galleries Association Victoria for its Ask a Survivor project. Jennifer L Maxwell Engagement Manager Jennifer Levitt Maxwell was “Highly Commended for Excellence” in her work at the museum. Jennifer has applied her exceptional […]
Oldest Greek Holocaust survivor Esther Cohen dies at 96
December 4th, 2020 Awake Goy Esther Cohen, Greece’s oldest Holocaust survivor, has passed away at the age of 96, local news in Greece reported Thursday. According to the European Jewish Congress (EJC,) Cohen lived in the city of Ioannina in northern Greece. A representative of the Jewish community of Ioannina said she died “of old age.” Cohen was only 17-years-old […]
Seven peacekeepers killed in Sinai helicopter crash; One survivor is in critical condition
November 12th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
Posted in Jewish News Tags: crash, helicopter, killed, peacekeepers, seven, sinai, survivor No Comments »Jackie Bennett’s Cancer Survivor Story | Invasive Ductal Carcinoma
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Revered Polish Jew, Holocaust survivor joins protests over top appointment at Yad Vashem
November 9th, 2020 Awake Goy Download App© Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, and analysis from Israel and the Middle East © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved
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