Tag: lodz
Auctioned: Bergen Belzen Beit Din’s Register of Deceased Spouses to Prevent Agunot/Agunim
The register provides jarring evidence about all the events of the Holocaust and its horrors: actions and selections; ghetto liquidation and death marches; gas chambers and crematoria; death by starvation and shooting, and so much more.
Lodz Hosts First-Ever Jewish Festival, Honors City’s Illustrious Jewish Fire Marshal
In recent years, a growing number of these individuals, popularly known as the “Hidden Jews of Poland,” have begun to explore their connections to Judaism
Poles Commemorate 74th Anniversary of Lodz Ghetto Liquidation
On September 8, 1939, German forces entered Lodz and immediately began targeting and terrorizing Jews, who constituted 34%, or 223,000 people, of the city’s prewar population of 665,000.
After Decades of Silence, Holocaust Survivors Open Up
When Pnina Katsir turned 80, she finally told her daughter a secret she had kept for decades: she was a survivor of the Holocaust.
Shavei Israel to Open First Jewish Kindergarten in Lodz
Shavei Israel and the Jewish community of Lodz will open the first Jewish kindergarten in the city since World War II.
When My Father Fought The Anti-Semites In Lodz: A Brief Tribute on his Yahrzeit...
In the Thirties it was common for anti-Semites to call on Jews to “go to Palestine!”
Am I Supposed to Read that?
I love that most of my kids don't actually read this blog - it gives me a freedom.
Sacrifices of Peace
Eventually Prime Minister Rabin, who had offered up so many Israelis as sacrifices of peace, was privileged to himself became a sacrifice of peace.