For the past seven years, whenever I have tried to wrestle a stamp or a library card out of my overcrowded wallet, a yellowing and much- folded newspaper cutting has…
On Monday evening, I went to the 80th birthday party of the most dedicated football man I know. Ernest Hecht is the owner-chairman of Souvenir Press, a wonderfully eccentric publishing…
In 1939, Metzger and his brother came to Britain via the Kindertransport. The rest of his family stayed in Germany. His two sisters eventually got out via Sweden. In 1943…
Lunch overlooking the sea at Kibbutz Lavi was a culinary and scenic delight. The religious-Zionist kibbutz in the lower Galilee was established in 1949 by a youth organization from England,…
A WOMAN touched by the help and support she and her mother received from a charity is saying thanks by becoming a volunteer. Marilyn, a medical secretary, from Lisvane, said:…
AMY GOODMAN: Tell us a little more about yourself, Hedy. Talk about your early years in Germany and how you survived the Holocaust. HEDY EPSTEIN: I was born in Germany,…
Waveney will mark Holocaust Memorial Day with special events to remember the part the district played over 70 years ago. The commemorations begin with a launch event at St Felix…
…overseas in the wake of natural disasters… Given the chaotic state of communications in Haiti right now, a big fear is that some children may be shipped overseas without proper…
From the Uxbridge Gazette: 2,000 children from 33 schools will commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day in Northwood – the largest in the UK. Ann Kirk, 81, was just 10 when she…
Primary school children from across Liverpool will unite at the Town Hall tomorrow to hear the stories of people affected by the Holocaust. They will meet three women who fled…
A woman who lost more than 65 members of her family in the Nazi Holocaust spoke of her devastating experiences, as part of a national commemoration. Mrs Collins was just…
Harry Bibring, a Holocaust survivor, is visiting The Helena Romanes School and Sixth Form Centre, in Great Dunmow. He will be talking to Year 10 students about his experiences during…
His parents and sister perished at Auschwitz concentration camp. Sixty-five years later, Walter Kammerling ensured their memories lived on during moving Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations in Bournemouth. As a youth,…
…at the station in time for the unveiling of a memorial plaque which commemorates the arrival of a kindertransport train carrying Jewish refugees at Lowestoft railway station in December 1938….
Susi Bechhofer visited a school as part of a week of events marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Susi Bechhofer, who escaped Nazi Germany on…
Vernon W. Fischer, a popular retired professor at St. Louis University School of Medicine, died Tuesday (Feb. 2, 2010)after a lengthy illness and a stroke last year. Colleagues said Professor…
Martin Maxwell, 85, was 14 years old and about three months shy of earning a high school diploma when he fled Vienna in 1939. Maxwell escaped to England, joined the…
Class 4 of St. Teilo’s School, Tenby, remembers Holocaust Memorial Day (January 27). Class 4 of St. Teilo’s School, Tenby, remembered Holocaust Memorial Day (January 27) when Mrs. Annette Hollows…
“I was 11-years-old, came home from school and my father said I could not go back to school the next day,” said Anne Herrman, a resident of Greenspring Village in…
…with facing its history of the Holocaust,I am amazed that that quality of response and the deep emotionalism comes from France.” said Ralph Samuel, who was born in Dresden and…