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From the blog of Brandon Marlon at The Times of Israel

After the Nazis murdered his son, Mordechai Rabahon carried his ashes across continents, oceans and internment camps to being him to eternal rest in Israel; after his story was all but forgotten, it is now being told again

From the blog of Arunansh B Goswami at The Times of Israel

The name Recha Freier may not sound familiar. But it should. Recha Freier was the visionary that began the Youth Aliyah movement to Israel. In 1931, she

From the blog of Randi Cohen Coblenz at The Times of Israel

From the blog of Stephanie Z. Bonder at The Times of Israel

Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, Andy Warhol, William Burroughs and Bob Dylan lived here once. George Chemeche was the last artist standing.

“un-German” in 1933. The old editions bore the ‘Delasem stamp’ – the emblem of the Delegation for the Support of Jewish Emigrants, an Italian-Jewish aid organisation. This helped researchers trace the collection back to Villa Emma. The vacant villa had been rented by the Delasem relief organisation and, in 1942, Recha Freier, a Jewish woman from Berlin, took 41 poor Jewish children from Germany and Austria first to Zagreb, then Slovenia, and finally to Nonantola, where they sheltere...

Recollections of a Kindertransport survivor They later managed to escape to Palestine via Switzerland. Some went to the US or later back to Yugoslavia. Except for one boy who had tuberculosis and was later deported to Auschwitz, the rest of the children survived the Holocaust. Some of the caregivers were arrested while organizing other refugee transport and were probably murdered in Auschwitz. In total, the Youth Aliyah organization that Freier founded in 1933 helped more than 7,600 Jewish chil...