For Holocaust survivors on Long Island, aging can revive trauma — and financial worries

An estimated 400 Holocaust survivors still live on Long Island. As they age, rising costs, health challenges and lasting ...

The Holocaust's youngest survivors: born in a labor camp, on a death train, and in a concentration camp

Moran, and Mark Olsky are survivors born to survivors. During the Holocaust, their mothers were young Jewish women sent to ...

Can Hungarian Holocaust Survivors Find Justice in the U.S.?

For more than a decade, a group of survivors have fought a legal battle to get American courts to hear their suit against ...
The Times of Israel

Under 200,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors remain alive today, data shows

There are fewer than 200,000 living Jewish Holocaust survivors remaining in the world today, with about half living in Israel, according to new data published by the Conference on Jewish Material ...
The Blogs | The Times of Israel

Brad Zarlin on Interviewing 2,000+ Survivors

If you’re a descendant of a Holocaust survivor or care about preserving Holocaust history, Brad Zarlin is a name you should know. Why? He’s perhaps the most prolific individual interviewer of ...
The Baltimore Sun

‘People are forgetting’: Holocaust survivors recall their stories as antisemitism rises

Martha Weiman’s parents told her and her brothers to stay in an upstairs bedroom the night of Nov. 9, 1938, so they wouldn’t see what was about to happen in their beloved hometown of Bocholt, Germany.

Lighting the torch: The survivors at the heart of Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony

This year, eight survivors will take part in key roles in the state ceremony on Monday evening at 8 p.m. Every year, the Yad Vashem state ceremony places Holocaust survivors at the center of Israel’s ...
Miami Herald

This Chanukah, South Florida’s Holocaust survivors need support, not silence | Opinion

As families across South Florida gather for Chanukah this month, hundreds of Holocaust survivors in Miami and Broward counties are quietly struggling with food, rent and medical bills. Their needs are ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Elderly Jews Were Among the Most Likely to Die in the Holocaust. Why Has History Forgotten About the Genocide’s Oldest Victims?

A new exhibition at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library spotlights the unique challenges faced by European Jews who were over the age of 55 during World War II Meilan Solly | Senior Associate Digital ...
Los Angeles Times

Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss, stepsister of Anne Frank, dies at 96

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Auschwitz survivor Eva Schloss, whose mother married Anne Frank’s father after the war, has died at 96 in London.

Children of Holocaust survivors face higher schizophrenia risk, Israeli study finds

It’s known that the adult children of many Holocaust survivors suffer from trauma as a result of growing up with them and ...
The Conversation

These hidden songs survived the Holocaust – and helped singers to endure their own survival

In the renowned Holocaust documentary, Shoah (1985), former SS guard Franz Suchomel sings a song prisoners had to perform in the Treblinka death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. After finishing the last ...