Displaying: 501 525 of 19,649 matches for “survive”
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501. Ambassador Norman Eisen
immigrated here, after surviving the Holocaust in Europe. She was born in Czechoslovakia. And in 1944, along ... Most of her family perished. She survived Auschwitz. She was transported to a slave labor camp, but she ... was fortunate and survived. When I was appointed by President Obama to serve as Ambassador to the ... candlesticks. All of those had survived. And then I found a crucifix and a hymnal. It turns out that during the
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502. Learning about the Holocaust
thrown out again after surviving two Aktions. It was the first Aktion that remains in my young ... community were marched out of town and killed. Only one survived. He had been shot in the arm and ... is how we survived the rest of the war with many close calls and miracles until the Russians ... occupied Poland once again and “saved” the few Jews who had managed to survive. My mother was able to
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503. How Did I Get from There to Here?
the concentration camp I was sent to labor camps. Somehow I survived four of them, living in a ... when the Soviet army took over the area. As you can see, I lived and survived the most horrible time ... survived. She was 46. She was sure that they had killed me because I was so young and frail and in ... reminded me not to forget the women who helped me survive and the promise I made to them to teach the
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504. Risks of Motherhood during World War II
Jewish woman about to give birth. My brother was born, and my mother survived. My father found some ... survival. They also had him circumcised despite the danger for a boy, physically marking him as Jewish. We ... survived and went back home in November 1944, after Paris was liberated. Little by little, my father found ... she had a grandson. After everything we survived, my brother committed suicide at the age of 44. He
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505. Did Your Mom Pray during the Holocaust?
survival. During the presentation, I mentioned my mother’s Orthodox Jewish upbringing and practices before ... of Jewish people. The story is about some Jewish children who survived the Holocaust in convents and ... monasteries in the care of nuns and priests. Many of the parents did not survive, and Jewish organizations ... tried to identify the surviving children who might have had living relatives. While in the care
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506. Martin "Marty" Weiss
oldest brother, Mendl, who had survived the war in a Hungarian labor battalion. The siblings located ... learned the fate of their other brothers. Issac had survived his service in the Hungarian labor battalions ... Moshe had survived the camps, but died shortly after liberation under unclear circumstances. Of the ... eleven members of Marty’s immediate family, five survived the Holocaust. Marty served in the
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507. Rescue in Denmark
survived the Holocaust, largely because Danish officials pressured the Germans with their concerns for the ... Jews would have survived the Holocaust in Denmark. There are numerous stories of brave ... smuggled some into Switzerland and Spain. About 20,000 Polish Jews were able to survive in hiding outside ... Danish Jews deported, about 450 survive.
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508. Who were the Victims?
needed to be destroyed to ensure the long-term survival of “German-blooded” people. In the 1930s, this ... Nazi persecution and genocide. How did some Jews survive the Holocaust ... widely to Jewish refugees. The war also created many more barriers to immigration. Some Jews survived ... imprisonment in Nazi camps or in hiding. Others survived living in unoccupied territories of the Soviet Union
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509. Elie Wiesel
deported to Auschwitz. Only he and two of his three sisters survived the Holocaust ... older sisters, Beatrice and Hilda, were selected for forced labor and survived the war ... also survived. Wiesel’s younger sister, Tzipora, was murdered at Auschwitz ... . Did any of Elie Wiesel's family survive? Wiesel’s older
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510. Marking the 16th Anniversary of the Genocide in Rwanda
until evening when the smoke masked the moonlight, Joseline fled. And survived. The only surviving ... Joseline, who survived immense tragedy determined to help rebuild their country. And we remember the
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511. 2015 Elie Wiesel Award
survived the Kielce ghetto, a death march, and Flossenburg. He immigrated to the United States in 1951 ... books, including A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy. Benjamin Ferencz ... Benjamin Ferencz is the last surviving prosecutor of the war crimes trials at Nuremberg. He participated in
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512. Ms. Allison Somogyi
Ms. Somogyi will be conducting research for her study “In the Lion’s Den: Jewish Survival in Budapest ... Mandel Center, Ms. Somogyi initiated research on the study of survival and resistance tactics employed by ... them in order to survive the Final Solution, and the short-lived Arrow Cross Regime. Ms. Somogyi was
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513. The Netherlands
murdered. Only 5,200 survived. In addition, 25,000-30,000 Jews went into hiding, assisted by the Dutch ... survive ... doomed the Jews of the Netherlands. Less than 25 percent of Dutch Jewry survived the Holocaust.
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514. Jakob Blankitny
caused many deaths, especially among the elderly and children. It was a miracle that I survived typhus ... day for those who managed to survive, remind us every day of the horror which we had to pass through ... words and said, "You were a student of my father; you're young and you are going to survive. If you see ... station, only half had survived. Many were killed on the road; others did not make it because they could
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515. Life After the Holocaust: Thomas Buergenthal
ice. And all I could think about was, "How did I ever survive this?" Because I was dressed in the ... of war.] Narrator: Those prisoners from the Auschwitz men's camp who survived the death march ... that I survived as a victory, that we had won over them. They wanted to kill us and we made it; we didn ... 't give them the joy of killing us. So there was a tremendous sense of satisfaction, that of survival
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516. Life After the Holocaust: Blanka Rothschild
. Narrator: In the nearby fields, they met two Polish men, who had also survived as forced laborers. Together ... Polish, "How come I survived? Why did I come back?" This was the greeting I received. When I wanted to go ... returning survivors. Only one name was familiar - that of a girlfriend who had survived the war in hiding ... forces. And I thought maybe somebody survived there! Narrator: Postwar Berlin had been temporarily
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517. Alexandra Zapruder
dreaming, about survival and about getting fame, in order to be able to tell 'the world'. . . to tell and ... . Anne Frank is portrayed as a hopeful person, and her hope for her survival and her hope for humanity is ... One is the most common, and that is hope for individual survival—the hope that the circumstances in ... to survive. But then there's another kind of hope that I only learned about this because of this
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518. Our Poor Shtetl is Burning!
seen each other in years. Also in attendance were some of the very few Jews who had survived ... years. Also in attendance were some of the very few Jews who had survived deportation to the Nazi ... …. ” I wondered what he had done. Maybe in his drive to survive he had stolen a piece of bread from ... Gutcha, who had survived Auschwitz, had told us that many kapos were brutal German criminal
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519. To Give Up or Not
survive. After the liberation, I restarted my life trying to prove that woman and Hitler wrong. It took a ... survival. But living in a Communist, antisemitic Poland was a struggle. Because of the Holocaust, I ... Engineering. Later there were many PhDs, professors, and one ambassador among my cousins who survived or ... 40th birthday and a special one. We should be happy that we all miraculously survived the Nazi
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520. My Friend Lola
assure myself that she really had survived. She also wrote to me that she found out that Dr. Berkovitz ... had survived as well. She made a special trip to visit him and thank him for his fatherly care. Dr ... Berkovitz greeted her with disbelief. He could not believe that she had survived and attributed her ... survival to a miracle rather than to his medical expertise. He told her all he had had in camp was
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521. Theodora Klayman: Shelter in Ludbreg
July 13, 2010 Theodora (Dora) Klayman discusses surviving the war in hiding with her brother in ... ’s episode, Dora Klayman talks with host Bill Benson about surviving the war in Ludbreg, Yugoslavia. Dora was ... and survive and no one would give us up, at one point there was a person, and they eventually knew who ... Antisemitism and Voices on Genocide Prevention. July 13, 2010 Theodora (Dora) Klayman discusses surviving the
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522. Behind Every Name a Story
my mother, father, and one sister, Olga, who also survived and is still living. Rosa Marie Burger I ... memories of those who lived through the occupation, the recollection of the existence and survival in the ... to survive. Naki Touron-Fais In the car I tried to be excited about finally ending this ordeal ... Romania. Sonia Lipowicz If you were a Jew in Poland in 1939, there was a 2% chance you would survive the
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523. Sam Schalkowsky
care for Shmuel, her only surviving child in Kovno. In June 1941, the Germans launched a surprise ... style="centeredGallery"] In the summer of 1943, the ghetto was liquidated and its surviving residents ... camp and sent its surviving inmates to the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig. Shmuel’s mother
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524. Holocaust Survivor Al Munzer Speaks at US Capitol about Mass Atrocities in Syria
the former Ebensee concentration camp. My mother survived 12 concentration camps and I was reunited ... Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, Arn Chorn Pond. Arn was imprisoned as a ten-year old and only survived because he ... cruelly imprisoned by the Assad regime in Syria and barely survived unspeakable torture. Today, I give
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525. An Alternate View of the Sad Longing
When, at the age of five-and-a-half, I was left to survive by my own wits, I was well-equipped with ... father as her friend. By Joan Da Silva When, at the age of five-and-a-half, I was left to survive ... ’s journey and supply the needed elements of survival. But nature cannot adjust for that sad, ever-present