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Warsaw Ghetto Recreation at Yad Mordechai

Yad Mordechai is a kibbutz in southern Israel, sitting roughly 2 miles north of the Gaza Strip. It was established in December 1943 by members of the Ha’shomer Hatza’ir Zionist youth movement who chose its name to commemorate the young leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Mordechai Anielewicz, also a member of Ha’shomer Hatza’ir. At […]


Volunteer Visitor Bonds With Survivor

In Israel, Hillel, the Jewish university student organization, has found a way to make the vital connection between young people and survivors so the stories of the Shoah may continue to be told for generations to come. Through Zachor v’Kabed, Remember and Honor, which is supported by Claims Conference allocations, university students throughout Israel each […]


Auschwitz Pavilion

A new permanent exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum has updated decades-old information with a compelling format, placing the murder of more than 1 million Jews at the death camp in the larger context of the Holocaust. The Auschwitz Pavilion, created in the camp’s former Block 27, was designed and built by Yad Vashem and funded […]


Survivor Story: Penina Nash

Penina Nash of Israel was a 5-year-old girl, living with her family in Poland when the Nazis invaded in September 1939. As the German Army advanced, Jews fled eastward through the Soviet Union to safety, trying to stay one step ahead. Penina, her mother and siblings finally reached the shelter of remote Uzbekistan. But when […]


Fellow Profile: Ella Florsheim

To help ensure that serious study and research of the Holocaust continues even after survivors are gone, the Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowships in Advanced Shoah Studies supports selected Ph.D. candidates around the world. Ella Florsheim of Israel grew up listening at the Shabbat table to her grandparents’ tales of surviving the Holocaust. During her […]


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