Laura Rusk . . .on her left arm the numbers 79564 which she was given in Auschwitz
Laura Rusk aged 12 in Sosniwiec, Poland
With Avner Shalev, the president of Yad Vashem
Speaking at a pro-Israel conference in Bern, Switzerland
Laura on her 90th birthday in Israel with daughter Helena
"How do you like Auschwitz?" the Chief Commander of th...
A Havana synagogue member holds the shechita knives
Street scene Havana
Distinctive . . . cars of many colors in Cuba
Thumbs up ... two locals in Havana
Boys on home-made scooters
A square viewed from a Havana balcony
Knives are out for us on a trip to the island of Fidel and C...
Murad family photo Baghdad, 1949. Standing: siblings, Zaki, Doris (15), Emil (18). Seated: parents Simha and Ovadia with little brother Sami (10)
This is the story of citizens who were proud of their countr...
Writer Diana Lerner (center) with her sisters, Roz, who lives in Jerusalem, and Libby, who lives in Teaneck, New Jersey
The author’s father at Ellis Island
Following a perilous three-week journey of seasickness, temp...
Rav Simcha Bunim, head of the Aliyah Movement, speaking in Pultusk, Poland in 1928.
The writer’s mother, Bobby Rose, aged 17, on the eve of World War II
Family portrait: Esther (first on left), elder sister Fay and younger sister Carolyn, with Bobby Rose and Rav Simcha, taken shortly before Rav Simcha died
Shlomo graduating from Officer's training
My father's years working in the unbelievable cold of Siberi...
Hava Almo in the Ethiopian Cultural Heritage Center she’s created in her own home in Beit Shean
Yiftach Arnon, visiting the Ethiopian Center from a nearby kibbutz, becomes an instant Ethiopian elder at the hands of Hava
Story and Photos: Lydia Aisenberg Hava Almo originates...
Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, subject of the movie Woman in Gold, is on permanent view at the Neue Galerie, Fifth Avenue, New York
The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial in Vienna
Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds in a scene from ‘Woman in Gold’
Hotel Metropole, where the deportation of Vienna’s Jews was organized
In July 2014, I returned to Vienna after a long pause, to re...
Atarah Fisher addresses the audience
Audience members listen to Atarah Fisher’s talk in Modiin
Story and Photos by Flori Cohen Although a difficult subject...
Child survivors of the Holocaust attending school in the Feldafing Displaced Persons Camp in Germany
A page dealing with Shavuot in the B’Derech 1946 publication
Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek children celebrating Shavuot in 2014
A show of hands by the young girls of Kibbutz Mishmar HaEmek
Story and Photos by Lydia Aisenberg On the table before me a...
Chiune Sugihara wrote blank visas for Jews and threw them from departing train
In the landscaped grounds in the park outside, this Universalist message rings loud and clear. Statues and memorials dot the expansive park
Example of a Sugihara visa
Three works at the Sugihara Museum:Fountain in Memorial Park, Bust of Chiune Sugihara, Museum banner displayed on town streets, Bells of Peace.
The little agricultural town of Yaotsu sits amidst the pictu...
Above:The Kremlin by Josef.Stuefer-www.flickr.com/creativecommons
Alexander Lerner’s portrait of Albert Einstein
Story and Photos by Liz Trakeniski The announcement of the r...
Exterior of the Jewish Museum at Belmonte
Inside the Porto Synagogue
A palace in Lisbon used during the Inquisition
A view from the gallery in the Belmonte Synagogue
A librarian at the Portugal Coimbra University holds a 12th century Bible, believed to have been written for Abarbanel
Story and Photos by Evelynne Cherny Together with two ...
One of Hitler’s deadly V2 rockets is launched. It’s target: London Photo Credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 141-1880-Wikimedia Commons
As we mark the end of the Second World War 70 years ago this...
Some of the students enjoying the impromptu outdoor seder
The tables are set for the mock seder at Kiryat Nordau
This year our children were lucky to be involved in two amaz...
Martin Luther King ... inspiring
Fifty years ago I spent a summer in Mississippi helping Negr...
Pamela enjoying a Japanese delicacy . . . locally-gathered wild vegetables. She says she was wearing both the kimono and the yakuta because she was freezing! Photos by Pamela Levene
Before the seder began ... two families, both with an Israeli father and a Japanese mum
As a teenager I had many pen-friends. Amongst the exotic pos...
The logo for this year’s conference, being held in Jerusalem
Jewish genealogy international conference, Washington, 2011
The popular TV show Who Do You Think You Are, in which exper...
A painting of Margo Donovan’s grandfather, Joseph David Amsterdam
Serving dishes of the Hutschenreuther china, now used at the Friday table
The ‘Red House’ detention center in Bari, Italy
In Central Park ... Margo Donovan with her parents and brother Carey
Friday night ... one of the postcards featuring Margo’s grandfather
It is said that inanimate objects can contain holiness. The ...
