by Matthew Silvan | Jan 16, 2019 | Featured
A 92-year-old Holocaust survivor decided she would arrange transportation to visit her daughter herself. She contacted a taxi service promoted as a safe, city-run transportation service for the disabled and the elderly in Canada. The taxi arrived at her Quebec home...
by Heather Laskin | May 3, 2017 | Inspiration
In an effort to make sure the horrors of the Holocaust are never forgotten – and never repeated – archeologists, scientists, and historians have worked together to collect, restore, and authenticate items that were left or hidden in the concentration camps...
by Heather Laskin | Feb 22, 2017 | Inspiration
Decades have passed since Anne Frank’s death, and the world could still take a page from her diary. 15-year-old Frank’s life ended at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in March 1945, just a few weeks shy of the camp’s liberation. Frank’s remarkable spirit would be...
by Heather Laskin | Sep 16, 2016 | Awesome
In 1916, Israel Kristal was a motherless Jewish child whose father was away fighting in World War I and would soon be killed in action. He turned 13 without celebrating his bar mitzvah. A century later, Kristal will finally get the chance. Kristal, who is the oldest...
by Heather Laskin | Jul 3, 2016 | Inspiration
Content via The New York Times Elie Wiesel, the Auschwitz survivor who became an eloquent witness for the six million Jews slaughtered in World War II and who, more than anyone else, seared the memory of the Holocaust on the world’s conscience, died on Saturday at his...