Israel and Zelig Jacob, Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944
Jewish brothers Israel and Zelig Jacob of Subcarpathian Rus await selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944. Both were murdered in the gas chamber...
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Our collection of biographies, historical fiction short stories, quotes and photographs about the Holocaust.
No One Says Goodbye
“You have to go,” she says. There are no questions needed; we know what those words mean. She hands us an envelope containing money and whispers the...
The Whispering Willows
Anna’s world is a gentle one, bathed in the colors of the setting sun. The cool wind stirs the long grass of the meadow, causing the willows to whisper so...
Anna & Her Sister
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...
That day in Dachau
“Fear festers,” pop told him all through childhood. “Step in, step through, but don’t be hindered by fear. Yet always respect it.”...
A Warsaw Ghetto Deportation
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...
Paul Grüninger Helps Save Jewish Refugees
Paul Grüninger was a Swiss police commander who saved about 3,600 Jewish refugees during World War II by backdating their visas and falsifying other documents t...
Leaving Home: A Time to Emigrate
Aron didn’t fear much in life. He was a fighter by nature. As a kid, he often came home with scrapes and black eyes, dried blood on his face. “What ...
Jewish people await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Jewish people from Subcarpathian Rus await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944. — “Jewish people await selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau” source...
A snapshot biography of Anne Frank
“Of the multitude who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne...