יום שישי, י״ח תמוז תשפ״וFriday, July 3, 2026
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Rabbi Dovid Reidel is the Collections Currator and Historical Archivist at the Kleinman Family Holocaust Education Center (KFHEC) located in Brooklyn, New York. To learn more or to donate artifacts, please visit kfhec.org. You can also contact the center at info@kfhec.org or at 718-759-6200.
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We must show them that being a true Jew is being true to one's people as well as to oneself.
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For those who couldn’t go off base, a personal parcel was priceless in its ability to convey a feeling of home.
“Can I wear tefillin in the bathroom?” That was the question US Private Nuchim Lebensohn wrote to Mike Tress, president of the Agudath Israel Youth Council, in a letter dated November 18, 1942. Lebensohn was not your typical young American GI. Polish by birth, he was forty-three years old and married when he was drafted […]
Several thousand Eastern European Jews had escaped Nazi death and Soviet persecution by fleeing to Shanghai, China.
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