Before the Holocaust Toman Brod, born in 1929, grew up in a well-to-do assimilated Jewish family in Prague, which he described as “an idyllic city” before the war. He never experienced anti-Semitism and had Jews and non-Jews as friends. Toman recalls the delicious food that Anci Kopska, the family’s cook, prepared, including “superb” bread dumplings, […]
Wassili Michailowski, a survivor of the massacre at Babi Yar, shows a picture of himself as a child with his parents before the Holocaust. Photo: Masha Stahlberg, n-ost
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More Than 25,000 Algerian Jews Who Survived The Holocaust May Now Be Eligible For The First Time For Compensation From The German Government. PARIS, FRANCE: February 5, 2018 – Julius Berman, President of the Conference on Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) is pleased to announce for the first time, a newly recognized group of […]
Lajosné Kelemen passed away in July 2018, z”l. May her memory be for a blessing. “I’ve lost all of my childhood but you’ve brought it back.”–Elekné Fehér, a Hungarian survivor who attended the Szarvas summer program We know how important it is for elderly survivors to socialize together. For some Shoah survivors in Budapest, the […]