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By Deborah Katz
What they did not realize is that they did far more for us than we for them! What we later experienced on that trip gave us a very small taste of the fear under which they lived on a daily basis.
By Deborah Katz
The idea behind this invention came from Naxon’s mother, Tamara Kaslovski Nachumsohn, who used to tell him stories about how cholent was produced in her town of Vilna, Lithuania.
By Deborah Katz
In the late 1930s, Bolivia’s president, German Busch, desperately sought ways to revitalize his country’s economy. Mauricio (Moritz) Hochschild – a Jewish business tycoon and a friend of the president – convinced Busch that Jewish refugees could be of help in this effort.
By Deborah Katz
My father was an outstanding sportsman and in 1938 - after the Anschluss - a game of tennis saved his life.
By Deborah Katz
He also knew that many Jews faced a perilous future in mainland Europe and would benefit from moving to the safe shores of Ireland.
By Deborah Katz
In October 1941, the Nazis halted all immigration from Europe. The last refugee boat arrived in Sosua (which by now had 500 immigrants) on December 8, 1941 – a day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
By Deborah Katz
In April 1942, three Jewish women of Polish and Austrian background living on Guernsey were handed over to the Nazis and sent to Auschwitz where they were killed.
By Deborah Katz
While studying the chair one day, Syl thought: Why not place a basket on the seat and wheels on the legs?
By Deborah Katz
Over 200 refugee children ages 15-16 years inhabited the castle: 60 from Bachad; 129 from Youth Aliyah, and 43 from Llandough Castle who evacuated it after it was bombed by the Germans.
By Deborah Katz
From the moment a Japanese or Indonesian soldier was spotted by us, we had to bow very low and avoid eye contact; otherwise we would be severely punished.
By Deborah Katz
We try to visit them once a year although obviously it is challenging to visit those living in the Outback.
By Deborah Katz
As they walked towards the camp escorted by guards, locals lining the streets threw stones at them and shouted, "Spies!" Jewish refugees shared their lodgings with Nazi spies.
By Deborah Katz
At dawn on November 25, the first couple of hundred passengers from the Atlantic, including my parents, started boarding the Patria.... At 9:00 a.m., the bomb exploded.
By Deborah Katz
He was disappointed by the world’s response to Kristallnacht and commiserated with the Jewish people.
By Deborah Katz
My grandparents and my father stayed in their own apartment. A sign was displayed outside saying, ‘Salvadorian Citizens Live Here.’ It was very risky living there as everyone knew they were Hungarian Jews.
By Deborah Katz
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) is the author of The Canterbury Tales, a collection of 22 stories, mostly written in verse; Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was a renowned playwright, poet, and translator; William Shakespeare (1564- 1616) is perhaps the most famous writer of all time, having authored approximately 39 plays and 154 sonnets. What do these three writers […]
By Deborah Katz
No visas to the U.S. were issued until mid-1940. The U.S. consulate informed the refugees that their arrival in the U.S. would deprive Americans of jobs.
By Deborah Katz
In a pre-trial interview with Rudolf Hoess (SS Commandant of Auschwitz), Sonnenfeldt asked him whether he had exterminated three and a half million Jews? Hoess became angry and replied, "No, only two and a half million!"
By Deborah Katz
During the Battle of Manila, my parents hid with me and several others in a foxhole while the Japanese went on a massacre and burned everything in sight.
By Deborah Katz
Seeing the Jews so doomed, it was only natural to feel deep compassion, and from a humanitarian standpoint, to be impelled to help them.
By Deborah Katz
The 6th of September marks the 78th anniversary of the arrival of the HMT Dunera – a British passenger ship – into Sydney, Australia with 2,542 people on board. One of them was Walter Kaufmann. Walter was born on January 24, 1924 to a Polish-Jewish woman (Rachela Schmeidler) who gave him up for adoption at […]
