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

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Hello, my name is Noga and I want to tell you the story of my grandfather. I hope it will show you how cruel and terrible the Holocaust really was.

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Holocaust Memories

Or K ORT Alon On March - 22 - 2011

My great-grandfather’s name is Moshe and today he is 95 years old. He was born in 1915 in Kelme, Lithuania.

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A Lucky Life

Shaked O ORT Afek On March - 22 - 2011

This is the story of my grandfather (my mother’s father), Poldi, from the Second World War. He was seven years old when the war began.

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My grandfather was born in 1938 in Druya, which is now in Belarus. His name is Meir.

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Alexandra Novikov was born on September 9, 1927. She had two older brothers and two older step-sisters. They lived in Moscow, Russia when the war began.

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This is a short story about my great-grandmother, Elka Golub, who barely survived the Second World War. She is now 89 years old and living with Alzheimer in a nursing home in Acre, Israel.

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The Story of a Survivor

Almog Y ORT Afek On January - 26 - 2011

My great grandmother (Ilunka) is a Holocaust survivor. This is a part of an interview that I conducted with her, and it is only a small part on her life’s story.

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Lost and Found

Michal GD ORT Motzkin On December - 25 - 2010

Sometimes you hear, read, or see a story, and you enjoy it or feel different for a while because of it. Sometimes you just move on, or do not even care enough in order to listen to the whole story.

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Holocaust Survivors

Hagay ORT Yonatan On December - 25 - 2010

The word “Holocaust” is used to define a huge disaster or a fundamental catastrophe.

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It all began with a letter, which came to my family from Anya Kister, a Righteous among the Nations from Poland. In the letter Anya asked to come for a visit in Israel in order to close a full circle, which opened 60 years earlier when Anya was a young girl, who lived with her family in a small village in Poland.

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