Entrance to the Museum of Memorial
The printing press used to print
the fake identity cards
Story and photos by Laurence Lebor In the last issue of...
Cyclist Gino Bartali By Laurence Lebor in action in 1945 (Photo: Wikipedia)
Memorial plaque dedicated to Gino Bartali in Terontola
Riding up to Assisi
Last September I participated in a remarkable and inspiring ...
The exterior of the synagogue
in Falticeni, Romania
The memorial for Jewish Heroes from
WWI in the Suceava Cemetery,
alongside the gravestone for the
Jewish victims of the Zaharesti
pogrom of July 1, 1940
On October 9, 1941 – an important date in Holocaust history ...
The Star of
Lithuanian
Diplomacy, the
highest
Lithuanian medal
of Diplomacy
Abel and Glenda Levitt with their children Ari, Sonya,
Adam and Mia
The Lithuanian Embassy in Tel Aviv held a ceremony on June 5...
Flowers brought by the children of Birzai and put on the mass grave in the forest
The memorial wall with names of the victims cut out on the metal sheets (Photo: Merunis Jukonis)
Myra Olswang’s family gravestone
uncovered in the cemetery
On June 16, 2019 about 500 people gathered in Birzai, Lithua...
Daisy pictured
in Marienbad in 1936
The 1939 letter
offering Daisy a home
in ‘cold’ Sunderland
Daisy’s precious
scrapbook ... she is
pictured third from
the left in the photo
taken in Adath Yisroel
School, Berlin, in
September 1935
"Everyone in tears, little children grasping their mot...
My mother and grandparents survived a murderous pogrom in St...
I find the ESRAmagazine extremely interesting and read it, v...
1961: Giora Fried as a patrol boat officer
Reunion ... Giora with Paul Weil
Giora Fried ... received a phone call from a stranger in 2007
Giora Fried with his aunt in 1949
As so many ESRAmagazine readers know, the Raanana ESRA...
Five cyclists from Israel at the start in Berlin: Daniel Cavenor, Richard Szental, Laurence Lebor, Paul and Nadav Alexander
Prince William listens as Henry Foner, another Kindertransport survivor, tells him his story
Prince William meets Paul Alexander at Yad Vashem in
Jerusalem
Making tracks . . . Paul Alexander and his son, Nadav, on the bike ride
The writer’s husband, Laurence Lebor, crosses the finishing line in London
This November it will be 80 years since the Nazi pogro...
Remembering . . . lighting candles at the joint ceremony in Modiin
Speakers Edie Kalib
(left) and Chaya Subar
Members of ESRA Modiin and Hadassah joint event committee with speakers.
Seated (second left) is Modiin’s Deputy Mayor, Shlomo Pazzy
They did it again. In another show of community solidarity, ...
We were "floating" down the rivers of Europe on a love...
A small fishing boat with escaping Jewish refugees having crossed into Swedish sea and therefore daring to come up on deck to see Sweden's coast on the horizon (Picture is part of Paul Pinchas Melchior’s PowerPoint presentation)
1945: Werner Bachmann (center) with brothers Paul and Robert in Stockholm, before departing to liberated Denmark. Below: Werner today
Public announcement in Danish and German from chief commander of German military occupation forces about martial law as of 29th August, 1943
40 years ago Israel
commemorated the
rescue with a stamp
Field Marshal Montgomery, liberator of Denmark 4th May 1945 is cheered in Copenhagen after the liberation (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ywBbZybLys)
It is now 75 years since my family and I together with about...
Oscar and Judy Prager
David Prager with his father Oscar
The evening of the 79th anniversary of Kristallnacht saw mor...
Manuscript in the Etz Haim Library, Amsterdam.Story and photos by Harry D. Wall
The philosopher Spinoza
The interior of Amsterdam’s Portuguese Synagogue
The Jewish cultural district of Amsterdam
A visit to Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam requires a s...
Second generation Holocaust survivors Zvi Berkovitch and Judy Goldstein each light memorial candles at the Modiin ceremony in memory of the six million Jews who perished at the hands of the Nazis (Photos: Flori Cohen, Sruly Cooper, Avraham Rotstein)
Found in a ghetto ... a hand-drawn birthday card, now at Yad Vashem
Sara Shor, of Yad Vashem, speaking
From left to right: Dr. Teria Shantall, Shlomo Pazzy, Deputy Mayor of Modiin-Maccabim-Reut, Gerry Wine, Ruchama Berkovitch, Achinoam Rotstein
ESRA Modiin Chair Cynthia Barmor (left), ESRA Membership Chair Carol Lipman (center) and Jackie Klein speaking at the event
The Holocaust was an atrocity carried out by a monster of ev...
The compass which was lost more than 70 years ago
Yaniv Sagee, Executive Director of Givat Haviva, with the compass at MORESHET presentation ceremony
Haviva Reik (second from left) and her British Army Palmach comrades training in Egypt
A small pocket compass dropped in Slovakia by pre-Stat...
Collage of Levi book jackets, photos and poems in Elizabeth’s apartment in Tiberias
Primo Levi ... vivid recall of visual images during his 11 months as a slave laborer
The square in Haifa named after Primo Levi
Report and photographs by Elizabeth Levi Senigaglia Remember...
In front of the the photo of Elfriede and Julius Berg is their silver cup holder which was saved for 72 years
The memorial stones unveiled to the Bergs in Berlin
Ralph Alon’s mother Margaret – the Berg’s daughter – and father Bill
Just over a year ago, I received a letter from someone in th...
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...