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Survivors
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Books They fled the hell of Auschwitz, but that was not the only catastrophe they faced
Jonathan Freedland's 'The Escape Artist' recounts an unforgettable story of Holocaust survival
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Culture Pop artist Peter Max’s court battles are a clash between children of Holocaust survivors
Daughter Libra Max says a court-appointed guardian is keeping her Berlin-born father isolated in his Upper West Side apartment
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Culture How a Holocaust survivor helped win the fight for abortion rights
Five years after her death, Simone Veil is back in the news — in France and the US
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Opinion I’m joining this year’s March of the Living. It may be the last to include survivors
In 2019, 70 Holocaust survivors walked the historic route from Auschwitz to Birkenau. This year, there will only be eight.
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Opinion Shocked by Russian war crimes? My father never forgot them
What Russians are doing to Ukrainians echoes what Soviet soldiers did to concentration camp survivors
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Opinion Miriam Isserow selflessly fought for survivors
Her tireless support for victims made us feel that sharing could be a positive thing.
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News Remembering Holocaust survivor, author and Oscar winner Gerda Weissmann Klein, a ‘testament to tenacity’
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…
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News With an apology, Germany returns reparations to Holocaust survivor’s kin
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…
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Opinion Debate over the Blue Square Super Bowl ad is fading. The racist responses from my fellow Jews will be felt longer.
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Fast Forward French, German, Jewish leaders call for resignation of UN’s Francesca Albanese over ‘common enemy’ comments
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