Newly-Released Animated Short Films Re-imagines Holocaust Documentary Genre
While viewers of other Holocaust films are mostly used to concentration camp footage or interviews with experts and scholars, “The Podkamieners” pioneers a new artistic form of Holocaust storytelling through its .use of animation
An Embrace Between Apologetic Christians and Israeli Holocaust Survivors
Ines Rogg, a German native, and her church group recently made a generous donation in the name of their Pastor Gerd Rodenwald to the Israel365 Charity Fund for support of Holocaust survivors.
Holocaust Survivors Experience Redemption by Reuniting With Long-Lost Loved Ones
At the end of last summer, Nina Fishman, the 71-year-old daughter of Holocaust survivors from Lithuania, received a phone call out of the blue from Magen David Adom’s Family Tracing and Reunification Unit. Her long-lost relatives found her.
Holocaust Remembrance Day: A Heroic and Record-Setting Survivor’s Story
Holocaust survivor, Walter Bingham enlisted in the British army and took part in the invasion of Normandy in June 1944. He later earned the Military Medal for bravery in the field.
70 Years After WWII, Israeli Holocaust Survivors Suffer
Today, more Holocaust survivors live in Israel than anywhere else in the world. Of the approximately 186,000 Holocaust survivors in Israel, about 60,000 live in poverty.
Fellowship Sponsors Purim Parties for Elderly Jews and Holocaust Survivors
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (IFCJ) is sponsoring Purim festivities for 2,200 elderly Jews in Israel many of whom are Holocaust survivors who would be spending the celebratory holiday alone without such activities.
Three New Exhibitions Open at World’s First Holocaust Museum Founded by Survivors
‘We can see that the public is very excited about these three exhibitions,’ says Yaron Zur, director of the museum’s Education and Guiding Center.
IFCJ Commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day With Moving Video
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews produced a moving video commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed on Saturday. The video features Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, founder of the Fellowship, describing the horrors Jews experienced from the gates of the Auschwitz Camp.
Remembering Holocaust Survivors, If Not Now, When?
“We have a Godly commandment to honor the elderly every day,” stressed Rabbi Mendy Blau, director of Colel Chabad.
45 Holocaust Survivors Celebrate Bar and Bat Mitzvahs at Western Wall for First Time
Because of the war, many Holocaust survivors never got to participate in the ceremony marking a Jewish boy’s or girl’s entrance to adulthood.
