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This is 96-year-old Auschwitz survivor Esther Klein, who has defied the odds and continues to live independently. Despite her advanced age, she spends her days baking a variety of traditional Jewish pastries such as rugelach, cheese delkelach, apple strudel, and challah. Esther's baking skills have been honed over a lifetime, and she takes pride in creating these delicious treats from scratch. She even shared a humorous anecdote about sitting down while rolling out the rugelach dough, showcasing her determination and resourcefulness. Esther's resilience and positive attitude serve as an inspiration to all who know her, demonstrating the power of the human spirit to overcome unimaginable challenges. Her story is a testament to the strength and resilience of Holocaust survivors, and a reminder of the importance of preserving their stories for future generations.

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80 שנה לגירוש יהודי הונגריה: "עמדנו מנגד ולא עשינו מספיק" עשרות הונגרים צעדו השבוע בעיירה פקש לציון 80 שנה לגירוש יהודי המקום. "ההורים והסבים שלנו עשו פשעים נוראיים, ואנו רוצים להביע את ההתנצלות שלנו כלפי העם היהודי" אומרת מא...

Please, read and share our statement on dangerous antisemitism, especially regarding recent events in California.

The Holocaust Remembrance Association Statement - Antisemitic Attack on Adas Torah Synagogue - Holocaust Remembrance Association A violent attack took place right by a Los Angeles synagogue over eight months after the October 7, 2023, horrific surprise attack by Hamas against innocent Israeli civilians. Pro-Palestinian occupations have taken place in many universities, but the blocking of the LA synagogue took the public as w...

“My language is German “My language is German. My culture, my attainments are German. I considered myself German intellectually, until I noticed the growth of anti-Semitic prejudice in Germany and German-Austria. Since that time, I consider myself no longer a German. I prefer to call myself a Jew.”

Sigmund Freud interview, 1926

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Holocaust Garden of Hope

March of Remembrance Texas Leaders Return From Israel with Strengthened Hope /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Shortly after successful 2024 events in Dallas and Houston, a small group of March of Remembrance Texas leaders, family and friends...

As founder of Holocaust Remembrance Association and first generation American, I want to say THANKYOU to America for helping my family find refuge after experiencing the horrors of the Holocaust and the oppression of Communism in Hungary.

I'm Thankful for my parents who escaped Communist Hungary in hopes of a better future for our family. They came with nothing, leaving everything behind. We are grateful and have greatly benefitted from America's freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of press, free enterprise, and the right to assemble. Here's to keeping her free. To our American friends Happy Independence Day... Let's keep her free. Garden of Hope

Go down Moses

A Jewish family named Karnofsky, who immigrated from Lithuania to the United States, took pity on the 7-year-old boy and brought him to their home.

There he stayed and spent the night in this Jewish family home, where for the first time in his life he was treated with kindness and tenderness.

When he went to bed, Mrs. Karnofski sang him Russian lullabies, which he sang with her.

Later he learned to sing and play several Russian and Jewish songs.
Over time, this boy became the adopted son of this family.

Mr. Karnofsky gave him money to buy his first musical instrument, as was the custom in Jewish families.

Later, when he became a professional musician and composer, he used these Jewish melodies in compositions such as St. James's Hospital and Go Down Moses.

The little boy grew up and wrote a book about this Jewish family, who adopted him in 1907.

In memory of this family and until the end of his life, he wore the Star of David and said that in this family he learned "how to live a real life and self-determination."

This little boy's name was Louis Armstrong. This little boy was called Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong. Louis Armstrong proudly spoke fluent Yiddish and “Satchmo” is Yiddish for “big cheeks, a nickname some say was given to him by Mrs. Karnofsky!

Now you know rest of the story!

Did you know that Irvine ‘Irv’ Robbins (1917-2008), co-founder of Baskin-Robbins, opened his first ice cream store using money he saved from his ! Born in Winnipeg to Eastern European Jewish immigrants, Robbins grew up working in his father’s ice cream parlor in Tacoma, Washington. He always finished the day happy and loved making others happy. After serving as an army sergeant in World War II, Robbins opened the Snowbird Ice Cream parlor in 1945 in Glendale, CA. In 1948, he joined forces with his brother-in-law Bert Baskin and the legendary Baskin-Robbins was born!

Source: Jill Goltzer Baskin-Robbins

🍦 Did you know that Irvine ‘Irv’ Robbins (1917-2008), co-founder of Baskin-Robbins, opened his first ice cream store using money he saved from his ! Born in Winnipeg to Eastern European Jewish immigrants, Robbins grew up working in his father’s ice cream parlor in Tacoma, Washington. He always finished the day happy and loved making others happy. After serving as an army sergeant in World War II, Robbins opened the Snowbird Ice Cream parlor in 1945 in Glendale, CA. In 1948, he joined forces with his brother-in-law Bert Baskin and the legendary Baskin-Robbins was born!

Source: Jill Goltzer

The stars of Vogue covers are usually celebrities and top models, but the glossy fashion magazine has broken with tradition to celebrate a 102-year-old Holocaust survivor as its cover star.

Margot Friedländer, born Anni Margot Bendheim in Berlin in 1921, is the latest to be shot for the cover of the German edition for July/August.

Friedländer, whose elegant portrait is on the cover, was interviewed by the fashion bible about her lifelong commitment to Holocaust education.

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Shavuoth Holiday is starting. If you would like to know more, this article is for you.

What is the Meaning of the Word "Shavuot"? | My Jewish Learning “Shavuot” literally means “weeks.” That is because Shavuot is celebrated seven weeks—a week of weeks!—after the first barley harvest. Here’s ...

This was well said:

"The Holocaust is unprecedented event in human history because of the way a modern state has put all its resources into the genocidal project against a minority group, and because the huge majority of people passively observed or even contributed to the genocide. That makes the Holocaust unique. Otherwise, genocide in itself is not a unique phenomena, unfortunately. As long as we understand the unprecedented nature of the Holocaust, it can of course be a reference point to analyze other atrocities and events in the past and the present, including the Hamas terrorist attack and massacre against Israeli civilians. It is another matter entirely how the Jews, and Israelis in particular, feel about the Hamas attack, and how it evokes thoughts about the Holocaust. That is a part of the personal and national narrative and memory, and fully understandable. However, outside the Jewish community, it is not meaningful to compare these two very much different events. I would not connect the two in educational settings. BUT - I would (and we are) speak about the Hamas attack in the context of contemporary antisemitism, in education and advocacy activities. But that is a different topic." Misko Stanisic

May-June 1944. The Allies were landing in Normandy. Hungarian Jews were being deported, feverishly, to Auschwitz-Birkenau. All these photos of Hungarian transports are from the famous Auschwitz Album, discovered by a Hungarian Jewish survivor Lily Jakobi, kept at Yad Vashem. At the bottom photo from the National Archives American soldiers are landing.

The rest of the story for Anne Frank

Nanette (Nanny) Blitz Konig is born in 1929. She was one of Anne's classmate at the Jewish Lyceum. But they weren't very close, even if Nanny had been invited to Anne's birthday party in June 1942.
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Anne wrote about her in her diary: "[she] talks so much it isn’t funny /.../ They say she can’t stand me, but I don’t care, since I don’t like her much either.” (Anne, June 15, 1942)
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But later on the two girls met again, in Bergen-Belsen. The two girls were ecstatic at seeing each other and they talked about memories. Nanny was horrified by Anne's physical condition. "I still wonder today how us two skeletons were able to recognize each other /.../ Anne told me about the diary. She said that she wanted to use it only as a starting point for the book she wanted to write about what she experienced."
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Both girls caught typhus in Bergen-Belsen. "When I saw her the last time /.../ she was very weak, scrawny and she had a blanket over her because she couldn’t bear the clothes that were full of lice. She was barely able to recognize me, or to talk.”
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”Anne was a girl who was full of life, she loved to talk and liked the boys /.../ If she was still alive, I am convinced that she would have become an excellent writer."
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Photo: Nanny and Anne at the Jewish Lyceum, 1941.
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Rozalie Jerome is the Texas Director of March of Remembrance Texas and just returned from the March of Nations.i met

Ten Meters from Eichmann From the blog of Jonathan Feldstein at The Times of Israel

Have a yummy channukah (with less calories!)


 
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Where's the Holocaust Garden of Hope?

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Learn more and support the Upstander Stone Project in schools.

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Happy Chanukah!
Holocaust Remembrance Association partnered with Somebody CARES International and donated 30 gift bags containing $30 HEB gift cards dreidels and chocolate gelt to 30 Holocaust Survivors at the Jewish Family services yesterday. I brought my granddaughter
Esther... And afterwards we made potato latkes

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Happy Chanukah! Shalom! With a statement regarding the war   Our Chanukkah Message for you during such a time as this... Shalom and Chag Sameach(Happy Holiday)! The most beautiful word in perhaps any language is peace, Shalo

8 Jewish Donuts From Around the World | The Nosher Jews and donuts are inextricably linked. Not only do we love to eat them on Hanukkah, but we’ve played a ...

Why Do We Eat Jelly Donuts on Hanukkah? | The Nosher Jelly donuts are one of the most symbolic dishes of Hanukkah, but have you ever wondered how that came to ...

Here's a show Mitch Jerome and Rozalie Jerome produced 10 years ago with Stephen Missick on Chanukah.

Hanukkah: The Hammer of God (s5-1) www.thecrossoverproject.org interviews Rev. Stephen Missick author, pastor and Aramaic teacher as he shares the true miracle about Hanukkah and the need for ...

Today is the 85th anniversary of the arrival of the first Kindertransport in London, so here you go…

They began arriving on a cold day in December of 1938. Eventually almost 10,000 would arrive at the Liverpool Street Station in London. These were the kids of the Kindertransport, little Jewish kids put on trains in Germany by their devastated parents in a desperate effort to save their lives. Each one carried a little suitcase, and wore a name tag. What a sight this must have been for Londoners - all those little kids, without their parents, speaking not a word of English! One of the onlookers would later honor these brave little folks by writing of a little bear, lost and alone, wearing a tag saying, “Please look after this bear. Thanks.” And so Paddington Bear was born… ❤️

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