This week, my great-grandma, Lily Ebert, a 100-year-old Auschwitz survivor, became a great-great-grandma.

“I never expected to survive the Holocaust. Now I have five beautiful generations. The Nazis did not win!”

From near-death at Auschwitz to five generations of Jewish life.…

Tel Aviv was founded 115 years ago today on April 11, 1909.

Rose Girone is said to be the oldest living Holocaust survivor. She was born in Poland on January 13, 1912. Today, she lives in New York and celebrated her 112th birthday this year! #MazalTov !

Photo: Reha Bennicasa

April 1945, the moment of liberation.
This is a train of Jewish prisoners that had been intercepted by Allied Forces. It is the moment they learned that the train was no longer headed for a concentration camp and instead, they had finally been liberated.

Today in New York City, thousands gathered to mark 6 months since October 7th. #BringThemHome

Video: Yonatan Gray

Holocaust survivor and founder of Kleinfeld Bridal, Hedda Kleinfeld Schachter, passed away one year ago at the age of 99. Hedda Kleinfeld was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1924. Her family managed to escape Europe and found refuge in Cuba before settling in Brooklyn in 1940.…

Shortly before midnight on April 14, 1912, over 1,500 passengers died on the Titanic, among them was Macy’s co-owner Isidor Straus and his wife Ida.

As the Titanic began to sink, women and children were the first to board the lifeboats. Ida refused her seat and stayed with her…

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Shaul Ladany was born on April 2, 1936. In 1944, at the age of 8, he was sent to a concentration camp. After surviving the Holocaust, he and his family moved to Israel in 1948. In 1972, he was one of the five Israeli athletes who survived the tragic Munich Massacre at the Olympic…

Erich Schwam died in 2020 at the age of 90. In his will, he left over $2 million to the French village of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in gratitude to the town for hiding and saving his family during WWII.

Schwam arrived in the village with his parents as Jewish refugees in 1943. The…

Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem
Am Yisrael Chai!

Photo: Noam Chen

Before he became famous, Paul Rudd was a Bar Mitzvah DJ! Rudd was born on April 6, 1969, in Passaic, New Jersey. The family name was originally Rudnitsky and changed to Rudd in response to the rise in antisemitism. His parents were Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from England,…

Condolences: Joe Lieberman
The former United States Senator has passed away today at the age of 82. Lieberman was an attorney, vice-presidential candidate, and Connecticut State Attorney General. In this photo from 2018, he was simply 'dad' as his daughter and her family made…

David Rossler is a Holocaust survivor. MyHeritage was able to find the descendants of the family who helped save David during WWII. In 2023, he returned to the home where he was hidden. In January 2024, Georges Bourlet's noble act of hiding the Rossler family and saving their…

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“For those smiles”
Proud to be Jewish. Always.

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🎭 Happy Purim! #AmYisraelChai

Shabbat Shalom ✡️ #BringThemHome

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Condolences: Martin Greenfield, the world-renowned Master Tailor. Born Maximilian Grünfeld on August 9, 1928, in Pavlovo, a small village in what was then Czechoslovakia and is now Ukraine. At 15 years old, he and his family were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz. Martin was the…

Did you know that letters addressed as 'To God, Jerusalem' are required by law to be delivered to a special branch of the Israeli post office? The letters are then opened, carefully folded, and slipped between the cracks of the Western Wall.