Roddie Edmonds was a Master Sergeant in the United States Army. In late 1944, Edmonds was captured in the Battle of the Bulge and held at a German POW camp. In January 1945, the Nazis ordered all Jewish-American POWs to step forward. Edmonds, the highest-ranking noncommissioned
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- This is an appreciation post for Daniel Gold, inventor of Israel’s life-saving Iron Dome. Thank you!!
- On 9/11 my grandmother walked from Manhattan to Williamsburg miraculously to safety. She was 78 years old. When she was 19 years old, she walked the Death March from Germany to Prague, miraculously to life. She said taking another step in the Death March felt like lifting the
- Happy 98th birthday to Holocaust survivor Julia Wallach! Julia was born on June 14, 1925, in Paris, France. On that same day in 1940, Nazi troops entered and occupied the city of Paris. During the war, Julia hid in an apartment with her father until they were arrested in April
- Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara and his wife Yukiko spent 18 - 20 hours a day writing and signing transit visas for over 6,000 Jews from July 31 to August 28, 1940. When the time came for them to depart, Sugihara said, "Please forgive me. I cannot write anymore. I wish you the
- This is an appreciation post for Daniel Gold, the inventor of Israel’s life-saving Iron Dome. Thank you!!
- This is a photo of the Kutz family before October 7. They were found huddled together in their home’s bomb shelter. None of them survived. We will never forget.
- A Buchenwald survivor lays a rose to honor the 56,000 prisoners who were never able to leave the walls of this concentration camp. Never forget. Never again. Video: @walkamongheroes
00:00 - Erich Schwam, died at 90 years old. In his Will, he left $2M+ to the French village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in thanks to the town for hiding and saving his family during WWII. Schwam arrived to the village with his parents in 1943. The family was saved by local residents who
- “This is my father, Marc Mordechai Peretz z”l. He was murdered trying to save me from the massacre at the Nova festival. When the rockets started, he got in the car and drove toward me alone. He ran over two terrorists, broke through police checkpoints, and kept going until He
- A note from Mark Twain about the Jewish people: “If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of,
- This week in Israel, Yarden Bibas held a newly dedicated Torah with an orange cover, honoring the memory of his late wife, Shiri, and sons, Ariel and Kfir. 🧡 May their memories be a blessing.
- 80 years ago, April 1945. The moment Jewish prisoners learned that their train was no longer headed for a concentration camp; instead, they had finally been liberated.
- My mother, Mildred Kirschenbaum, was born August 25, 1923 in Brooklyn, NY. Her parents were immigrants from Poland and Lithuania. She married my father when she was 18 years old and right after he was shipped to the South Pacific and stationed there during WWII. When he returned














