admin | April 20, 2024
The main action in Irenas Vow is triggered by a chilling scene in a Polish street where a Nazi officer murders a baby in front of its mother. Chilling but predictable: This new Holocaust drama about a Polish nurse who successfully hid a dozen Jews in the home of a Nazi commander treads familiar ground. A co-production between Poland and Canada, lead by Quebec director Louise Archambault and written by Canadian Dan Gordon based on his own play, it includes many scenes where the tension feels rote.
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admin | April 20, 2024
Dozens of FBI agents in L.A. learned what happens when anti-Semitism gets out of control as 101-year-old Holocaust survivor Joe Alexander told them his story Wednesday. KNX News' Emily Valdez reports - Alexander was 16 years old when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1938
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admin | April 20, 2024
The new film Irenas Vow tells the amazing true story of Irena Gut Opdyke (Sophie Nlisse), a Polish Catholic nurse who risked her own life to hide Jews being persecuted by the Nazis during World War II. Irena was 17 years old and a nursing student living away from home when the Russians and Germans invaded Poland in 1939
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admin | April 11, 2024
(JTA) Holocaust survivors in Israel relived their trauma on Oct. 7, when Hamas attack on their country was the deadliest day for Jews since the Nazis were defeated. Some were injured, hid for their lives and were displaced from their homes, in echoes of their experiences as children.
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admin | April 11, 2024
Lena Dunham made the emotional discovery that her family has connections to the Holocaust during last weeks episode of the PBS celebrity genealogy series Finding Your Roots. Historian and host Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed that Dunhams great-great-grandmother Regina Seltenwirth came to the US alone at just 14 years old, leaving 11 siblings behind in Europe
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admin | April 11, 2024
Submitted Photos Area high school students and teachers in the Holocaust and Social Justice Program of Chautauqua County are pictured on the U.S.
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admin | April 11, 2024
A Latet volunteer visits a Holocaust survivor. (Courtesy of Latet) After undergoing essential hip surgery that left Holocaust survivor Vyacheslav last name withheld for anonymity wheelchair-bound, the 89-year-old man struggled with new mobility limitations within his own bathroom. That was until he received free home repairs for mobility accommodation from Latet Israeli Humanitarian Aid, a grantee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
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admin | April 11, 2024
DEATH OF GANNON JOHNSON FROM LAST YEAR. HAPPENING TONIGHT A HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR SHARES HER INCREDIBLE STORY OF PERSEVERANCE.
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admin | April 11, 2024
(New York Jewish Week) Ive known Hanna Slome for my entire life: She and her husband Henry Slome were close friends of my parents. I knew that in the 1930s, Henry fled Nazi Germany and Hanna had somehow gotten out of Czechoslovakia, but I didnt know the details of her escape
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admin | April 11, 2024
April 10, 2024 @ 11:30 AM Peacock and Sky revealed the full official trailer for the limited series The Tattooist of Auschwitz, based on the internationally best-selling book by Heather Morris, on Wednesday. The book and show are inspired by the real-life story of Lali and Gita Sokolov, who met while prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust of World War II.
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