Holocaust survivors give speech to local schools

After these plumbers learned their client was a Holocaust survivor, they handed her a ridiculous bill

It's estimated that only about 220,000 Holocaust survivors are still living. It's a number that's dwindling fast, rapidly accelerating every year. Sadly, in the coming years that number will eventually make its way to zero. When that day comes, it will be quite a loss for humanity. The stories and voices of those who lived through one of the worst atrocities imaginable are so important to our understanding of history. In fact, they've never been…

Holocaust survivors give speech to local schools

WAUSAU, Wis. (WAOW) - Local schools gathered at The Grand Theater to hear the stories of two different Holocaust survivors.

Resilience and Remembrance: Holocaust survivor to visit OSU

Irene Butter survived the Holocaust, she believes, by two miracles.  The first occurred only a few days after her arrival at the Westerbork concentration camp in the Netherlands, the other at the end of her stay in Bergen-Belsen. Now 96 years old, Butter travels the world telling her story, which is so similar to many who lost their lives and loved ones to the Holocaust.  Butter will be speaking at the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Arts o…

Simon Schama: The Holocaust, 80 Years On

Premieres Tuesday, April 22, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Amid rising antisemitism around the world and 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Simon Schama traces the historical road of horror that culminated in the death camps. From Lithuania to Poland, the Netherlands and, finally, Auschwitz, Schama confronts the enormity of the Holocaust as both historian and 80-year-old Jew, to understand how it happened and in the hope…

A Holocaust child survivor united two families for three generations

By MARSHA HALPERT As we near Yom HaShoahm, Marsha Halpert of Albany and a 2nd generation survivor shared with us some thoughts about one child during the Shoah and how […]

Cindy Crawford, Jennifer Garner and more A-listers pose with Holocaust survivors to raise awareness

Stars like Cindy Crawford participated in “Borrowed Spotlight,” posing with Holocaust survivors like Ella Mandel. Bryce Thompson Cindy Crawford, Jennifer Garner, Billy Porter and other stars posed for portraits with Holocaust survivors in an effort to educate people about that dark time in history. Photographer Bryce Thompson — who has shot for high-fashion magazines like Elle, L’Officiel, and Glamour — put the project, “Borrowed Spotlight,” tog…