Levi was born in Turin at Corso Re Umberto 75 into a liberal Jewish family. His father Cesare worked for the manufacturing firm Ganz and spent much of his time working abroad in Hungary, where Ganz was based. Cesare was an avid reader and autodidact. Levi’s mother Ester, known to everyone as Rina, was well [...]
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Elie Wiesel
Posted by admin on April 9th, 2010
Elie Wiesel’s statement, “…to remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all…”stands as a succinct summary of his views on life and serves as the driving force of his work. Wiesel is the author of 36 works dealing with Judaism, the Holocaust, and the moral responsibility of all people to fight hatred, racism [...]
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No Comments »Alicia Appleman-Jurman: Survival and Heroism of a Young Girl During the Holocaust
Posted by admin on April 1st, 2010
When the Holocaust began, Alicia Jurman was a young Jewish girl growing up in the southeastern Polish city of Buczacz. In that city, about a third of the population was Jewish. Even though there was anti-Semitism in Poland, as there was anti-Semitism nearly everywhere in Europe, Alicia with her parents and four brothers led relatively [...]
Posted in Holocaust survivors - their stories, News Tags: holocaust, memories, survivors No Comments »Alexander Kimel: Memoirs of a Survivor
Posted by admin on April 1st, 2010
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES Written by Alexander Kimel I receive many requests for interviews, and unfortunately I don’t have the time to engage in personal exchanges. So, I decided to put in most information on this page: I was born in a small town, Podhajce, in Galizia. In 1939 my hometown was occupied by the Red Army, [...]
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