By Dr. Stuart Falk, Volunteer Docent The survival of 800 adults and children in WWII Germany at Berlin’s Jewish Hospital is the subject Daniel Silver’s book Refuge in Hell: How Berlin’s Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis. The survival of the Jewish patients occurred while Adolf Eichmann and his staff kept it under scrutiny. There are… Continue Reading Berlin’s Jewish Hospital
By: Michael Leibson, Volunteer Docent – January 27, 2021 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The date was chosen because it was the date in 1945 that Auschwitz was liberated. However, the Germans stopped gassing operations in November 1944 and thousands of prisoners had been evacuated before the Russians arrived. By January 27 all that remained… Continue Reading International Holocaust Remembrance Day
By: Lori Ellis – Bernard (Benek) Klisman was born on December 12, 1923 to Raizel and Moshe Klisman in the city of Sosnowiec, Poland. He was 1 of 8 children, and 1 of the 3 members of his family that would miraculously survive the Holocaust. Most of his Holocaust history was held privately by him… Continue Reading My Story – Bernard Klisman
By: Anne Donato, Ph.D, Education Specialist – There is an old saying…one man’s findings are another man’s treasure. And as I looked from my desk out into our library archives, I saw a beautiful piece of gold. Hanging on our wall. Looking at me with dark eyes and a simple smile. It was a pencil… Continue Reading The Anne Frank Lithograph – Our Hidden Treasure
By: HMC Archival Staff – This brass Menorah (c. 1900), used during the Jewish festival of Chanukah, was brought to the US by Lili and Karl Kolb in 1938, shortly before the Anschluss – the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany. The Kolbs narrowly escaped the Anschluss with the help of Ida and Sam Arkin… Continue Reading A Menorah That Escaped The Anschluss
By: Rae (Wygoda) Nachbar, Holocaust Survivor – Was it luck? I am a survivor from Pultusk, Poland. On Sept 26, 1939, the entire Jewish population of over 3,000 people was driven out without warning by the Germans. They would not allow us to turn back and on foot, we ended up in Bialystok in the… Continue Reading My Story – Rae Nachbar
