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  Lilia Neuman of Sweden smiles when she talks about her social worker, saying that she “helps me with everything. It’s a blessing to have her here.” This vital assistance, provided by the Jewish Community of Stockholm through grants from the Claims Conference, enables 95-year-old Lilia to stay safely in her Stockholm home. Born in […]

Hedi holds a picture of her parents, one of the few mementos she has from her family. All but one brother were murdered at Auschwitz. Photo: Paul Lang Hedi Frankl pretended to be a Christian teenager in a small town in Hungary to save her life during the Holocaust. But she was found out and […]

Aviva Goldschmidt remembers every day the fear of being a small child who was told that any sound she made could mean discovery and death.

It was raining hard on Shabbat, June 1, 1944 when Shoshana and her family were taken out of their homes in the ghetto in Košice, Czechoslovakia with the other Jews and put into cattle cars.

Wassili Michailowski, a survivor of the massacre at Babi Yar, shows a picture of himself as a child with his parents before the Holocaust. Photo: Masha Stahlberg, n-ost