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Anna & Her Sister

Posted on December 29, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Anna Stein took her first breath on a makeshift bed in a crowded Warsaw Ghetto apartment in 1940. At the time, not even a year had passed since the Nazis took o...

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That day in Dachau

Posted on November 11, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

“Fear festers,” pop told him all through childhood. “Step in, step through, but don’t be hindered by fear. Yet always respect it.”...

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A Warsaw Ghetto Deportation

Posted on October 13, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

She was in the line, the one you didn’t want to be in, the one leading to the deportation train going to Treblinka, a death camp. We all knew that’s...

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Paul Grüninger Helps Save Jewish Refugees

Posted on February 17, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Paul Grüninger was a Swiss police commander who saved about 3,600 Jewish refugees during WWII by backdating their visas and falsifying other documents to indica...

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Jewish people await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Posted on January 26, 2022 by Historical Snapshots

Jewish people from Subcarpathian Rus await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. — “Jewish people await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau” source...

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A snapshot biography of Anne Frank

Posted on September 24, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

Anne Frank loved to write. She dreamt of being a journalist one day. But when she was thirteen years old, her family went into hiding to avoid deportation to a ...

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Jan and Miep Gies

Posted on April 8, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

Not long after their wedding, Otto Frank, her employer, asked Miep to help hide his family in a secret annex of the office building. The family was in danger as...

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Warsaw Ghetto, 1943.

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

Warsaw Ghetto, 1943. Sources: National Archives and Records Administration / Wikimedia Commons.

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“A Glimpse of Normal”: A historical fiction short story

Posted on June 11, 2020 by Historical Snapshots

Life feels normal. There is warm sunshine on my face. And soft grass under my back. Chaya is at my side. I roll over and kiss her cheek. And then her lips. I ta...

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Wedding rings taken from Holocaust victims

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Historical Snapshots

Wedding rings that had been taken from Holocaust victims. This box was found during the liberation of Buchenwald.

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