Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi SS officer. He was responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.

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In my relatively short life, I’ve come across many stories about the Holocaust. I heard some of them from people and others I read in books. The hardest story for me to hear is the story of my grandfather, who died a year ago. This is the first time I’m writing about him since then.

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Ilan Ramon was an Israeli hero. He was a brave pilot in the Israeli Air Force and had fought for Israel. In his life, Ramon always preferred the public interest over his own and brought great honor to Israel and to the world.

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Toy Nazi Soldiers

Amit L ORT Dafna On January - 26 - 2012

The Holocaust that occurred during WWII was a horrible historic event that happened to the Jewish people and to the whole world. The memory of the Holocaust is very important because it may prevent it from happening again and because no one should ever forget the horrors that happened there.

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My Israeli Hero

Dan W ORT Guttman On December - 18 - 2011

My hero is my great grandfather, Philip Brett, who served in the Jewish Legion during the First World War in Palestine.

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My Israeli hero is my grandmother Miriam, my father’s mother.

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Baruch Jamili

Amit L ORT Dafna On August - 7 - 2011

Israel’s Prime Minister had decided to preserve national heritage sites. One of them is Baruch Jamili’s graffiti on the wall of the water pumping station in Sha’ar Hagai.

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Eight years ago, the space shuttle Colombia took off with a mission to explore planet Earth and micro gravity from space. In the space shuttle were seven astronauts. One of them was Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut sent to space.

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One Word

Sarit V ORT Dafna On June - 3 - 2011

Kabala. This word has two meanings in Hebrew. It means both acceptance and the mysterious, hidden wisdom of judaism.

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This May 12 2011 John Demjanjuk was sentenced to 5 years in jail for killing about 28,000 Jews during the Holocaust.

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The Gebethner family was a very well-known family in Poland. Gustav Adolf was the founder of one of the big publishing houses - Gebethner & Wolff. His grandson, Tadeusz, had other interests. He set up a sports club association called ”Polonia”, and was the first soccer team captain. Gebethner played more than 150 games.

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