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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My name is Ehud. I am in the 9th grade and I am Israeli. I have 3 brothers and they’re all in the army (the IDF). I know how it is to be a brother to three soldiers, but I wondered what it is like to be a mother to three soldiers. So I asked my mother, Orit, about it.

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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 is my grandmother Miriam, my father’s mother.

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Hi, I am Alon from Ashkelon, and I want to tell you about music in Israel.

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Closer Than I Thought

Reut R ORT Afek On August - 7 - 2011

Some think that Israel is a primitive nation, but maybe they’re wrong.

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A group of kids from Boca Raton came to Kiryat Bialik this month and the students from ORT Dafna and ORT Bialik hosted them for one night.

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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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The Kibbutz

Adi K ORT Afek On April - 13 - 2011

The kibbutz is a community which is characteristic of Israel, especially in the ’70s. The principle of the kibbutz is to give everything you can and to get what you need, and accordingly the kibbutz password is “to each according to his needs.”

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