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The Azrieli Foundation launches Education Disrupted
The Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program today released Education Disrupted, a free digital exhibit centred on the role of education in the lives of those who survived the Holocaust as children and youth.
The High Holidays Engraved in Memory
Holidays for Love and Family: For Elsa Thon, the High Holidays remind her of the first time her parents met in 1913. In her memoi...
In Search of Light
The Abel family after the war. From left to right: Martha's sister, Eta, her mother, Sari, her father, Ödön, and Martha. Cluj, Rom...
Always Remember Who You Are
Anita with her parents, Edzia and Fisko. Synowódzko Wyżne, Poland, 1937. Miraculous Escape We didn’t know where my mother had bee...
Stories of Pesach: Holocaust Survivors Remember
Pesach, or Passover in English, often figures prominently in the stories of authors who survived the Holocaust as children. Introd...
A Tapestry of Survival
Leslie (right) with his brother Louis (Lali), holding their nephew, Adamka. Budapest, 1944. The War One day I went to visit a frie...
Lovers in a Dangerous Time
From Anka Voticky’s Knocking on Every Door Arnold and Anka with baby Milan, 1934. To my husband, Arnold. They say memories are go...