When I came to the United States in 1949 after the Second World War, the world had just witnessed the horrific culmination of centuries of anti-Semitism: the indefensible murder of 6 million Jews.
‘Either We Go or We Burn Right Here’: A Survivor Remembers the Warsaw Ghetto
For many of Europe’s imprisoned Jews, it would be easy to read the events of this day, May 16, in 1943, as an end of hope. It was then that the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, one of the most significant acts of resistance during the Holocaust, was quashed.
Eviction Blocked for 89-year-old Queens Holocaust Survivor with Debilitating Health Issues
Jewish High School Students Hear Holocaust Tales
Oceanside community dedicated to remembering the Holocaust
“There’s an expression, L’dor va’dor, and it means ‘From generation to generation,’” said Joan Goldfaden, who has worked at the Barry and Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center for nearly 25 years and represents the JCC on the Jewish Community Council of Oceanside.
A Holocaust Survivor’s Story, on Stage
Saved from the Holocaust: ‘He Loved Me and He Wanted to Keep Me’
On Holocaust Remembrance Day: A third of survivors in the US are poor
More than 70 years after the Holocaust ended, survivors living in the United States continue to suffer.
Some special Queens seniors put on their dancing shoes at a local community center.
Lyubov Bilik fled the only home she knew in 1941. With her mother and two older sisters, she boarded a ship from Odessa, Ukraine, and eventually wound up near the northern foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, fleeing the slaughter of Jews by the Nazis and the Romanians.
Program Helps Queens Seniors, Holocaust Survivors, Socialize with Others
Some special Queens seniors put on their dancing shoes at a local community center.
