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On May 21, 1942, the eve of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, the sudden sound of gunshots woke the Kransnostawski family just before dawn. Soldiers broke into Meir’s house and forced everyone out onto the street and marched them, along with many neighbors, to a nearby gathering point. While everyone waited in the courtyard, the Nazis [...]  I want to wish a very special “happy birthday” to Alice Herz-Sommer, who turned 108 last week. According to JTA, Alice is the world’s oldest Holocaust survivor. A professional pianist since she was a teenager growing up in Prague, Alice was sent to Terezin in 1943 with her husband and young son. There, she played [...] I don’t typically point out high school graduations in this blog, but a very special student received his degree this month and I have to wish him an equally special “mazel tov.” Howard Chandler began his schooling in Poland but his education was interrupted in fourth grade when the Nazis invaded his country and eventually [...] As waiters rushed out orders of hot wonton soup, some of the guests clapped along to the violinist playing upbeat Jewish music, while others were lost in conversations about their children, their daily lives, and the Chinese feast before them. For the 100-some Holocaust survivors gathered at Brooklyn’s Shang Chai restaurant earlier this month for [...] In January 1943, the residents of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland began their infamous, ill-fated revolt against their Nazi occupiers. Within a few months, the Nazis had crushed the resistance and many survivors of the ghetto were sent to the Majdanek death camp in Lublin. Between April and May of 1943, 15,000 Jews were marched [...] |
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