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Olga Horak is 94 and a half.
She is specific about the half-year, because at her age, it matters, and all those years are a testament to her great achievement: survival.
Olga Horak, a 94-year-old Holocaust survivor.
Credit:Steven Saphore
Mrs Horak is a Czechoslovakin-born Jewish Holocaust survivor, or as she puts it, a âgraduate of the Holocaustâ.
She was interned in five camps during World War II, including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, from which she was liberated in 1945 at the age of 18. She lost her entire family in the camps, including her mother, most tragically, on the day of their liberation.
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The Jewish Council of Amsterdam was a body set up by the Nazis to have Jews oversee preparations for the extermination of their own minority throughout the Netherlands during World War II. (Courtesy of the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam/ via JTA)
AMSTERDAM (JTA) Sonja Levy was a positive person who made an excellent first impression and whose important position exempted her from deportation, according to the personal card that the Jewish Council of Amsterdam made for her during the Nazi occupation.
But the accolades on the card weren’t enough to save Levy, a kindergarten teacher who was in her early 20s when the Germans invaded.
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On this sixth day of the week leading up to International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27, I review this sixth document signed by my grandfather Jonas Noreika.
It is dated September 10, 1941. This is less than two weeks after all the Jews (more than 2,000 innocent victims) in his region of Šiauliai were rounded up (by his order) and sent to a ghetto in Žagarė. (See previous days posts at the bottom of the article.)
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As the world prepares to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th, communities and memorials around the world are addressing how to meaningfully commemorate the day while protecting public health and safety. The day marking the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz is ordinarily commemorated with hundreds of individual memorial events across the globe. This year, most of those events will be impossible for any sizable gathering of people due to COVID-19.
With the goal of proposing relevant solutions to this challenge, Dr. Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann and research student Tom Divon of the Hebrew University Communication and Journalism Department, examine the many ways individual museums and memorial sites have adapted their programs over the past year.