Holocaust Survivors

When the Nazis invaded Poland, Leon Leyson was ten years old. He recalls, "Suddenly, I lost my most basic rights. I was hungry and frightened all the time."

Trees don't talk, but they have a great deal to say. And one of the most amazing things a tree says is about survival

On my desk sit the pictures and the invitation. The pictures are of a past generation that never really was, and the invitation represents the future generation that may never be...

My grandmother Sima and her brother Meir were young adults at the time of Hitler’s rise to power...

How tefillin saved a person's life again and again -- during the Holocaust and in its immediate aftermath.

Like all children with such a background, I am very aware of the fact that it is possible that I may have never been born...

In one corner stood a multitude of canes and walking sticks. This was the first of many visits with Yetta, an eighty-two-year-old Holocaust survivor. We sat down on her patterned couch, and soon, she began to talk...

When I was a child, I always felt different, an oddity among my peers whose parents had no foreign accents or horrific memories of Nazi death camps...

Auschwitz showed us that just as man can sink as low as the basest animal, so can he rise to the level of angels

Told that a Jewish man died with little family, Rabbi Ephraim Simon guaranteed him a proper burial.