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Holocaust survivor Fred Lifschutz, a Woodmere resident, spoke about the life-saving rescue he was apart of as a child at the Chabad of Hewlett on Aug. 10.

Woodmere resident and Holocaust survivor, Fred Lifschutz was the featured speaker at Chabad of Hewlett’s Holocaust commemoration event, on Aug. 10, which was done in coordination with the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av, a somber day when Jews fast and recall the tragic events in the religion’s history. more

Compiled by Jeffrey Bessen and Rachel Gottesman | 8/22/19

The Gural JCC honored Holocuast survivor program member Marvin Jacobs, second from left. To his left JCC Associate Executive Director Cathy Byrne, Congresswoman Kathleen Rice, second from right David Jacobs and far right Rabbi Tzvi Krigsman.

Gural JCC honors Holocaust survivor Marvin Jacobs

On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, another vestige of the World War II era was commemorated as the Cedarhurst-based Marion & Aaron Gural JCC honored one of its members, Marvin Jacobs, a Holocaust survivor. more

By Jeff Bessen | 6/6/19

The UJA-Federation of New York’s Yom HaShoah commemoration included stories from two Holocaust survivors and Gural JCC members, Bernie Igielski and Marvin Jacobs. CEO Eric Goldstein, right, with Jacobs.

Holocaust survivors tell their stories

Marion & Aaron Gural JCC members Bernie Igielski, 91 and Marvin Jacobs, 97, both Holocaust survivors, shared their stories at the UJA-Federation of New York’s Yom HaShoah commemoration on May 1. more

By Jeff Bessen | 5/23/19

The eighth annual Friends of Israel Defense Forces South Shore community dinner honored two Holocaust survivors, their daughter and her husband. From left were emcee Ben Brafman, honorees Malky and Jay Spector and Judith and Zoltan Lefkovits, and FIDF National Director Meir Klifi-Amir.

Generational bonds strengthen Israel

Judith and Zoltan Lefkovits survived the Holocaust and came to the United States in the late 1950s — “separately,” the couple said in unison. more

By Jeff Bessen | 5/23/19

Dr. Richard Freund, an archeologist and professor and at the University of Hartford, spoke on history and the Holocaust at Temple Beth El in Cedarhurst on May 1.

Digging up the Holocaust’s European history

Speaking through a microphone and using a clicker to rotate images, Dr. Richard Freund, the Maurice Greenberg professor of Jewish history and director of the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford, took the audience at Temple Beth El in Cedarhurst on a journey spanning 2,300 years from Rhodes in Greece to the Ponar Burial Pits near Vilna in Lithuania. more

By Jeff Bessen | 5/9/19

Remembering and reflecting on the Holocaust and Israel

Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School students commemorated Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, with a meaningful assembly run by the students on May 2. more

By Matthew Jedwab | 5/9/19

Rambam Mesivta students led by Rabbi Zev Friedman, the school’s dean, demonstrated outside the Lithuanian consulate to the United Nations opposed to that country not recognizing Jonas Noreika as a Nazi war criminal.

Rambam students decry possible Nazi

Roughly 200 students from Rambam Mesivta High School in Lawrence rallied outside the Lithuanian consulate to the United Nations on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan on May 2, in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day... more

By Jeff Bessen | 5/9/19

Art Institute students from HAFTR High School had their artwork on display at the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center in Glen Cove.

Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School art students visit Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center in Glen Cove

Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway High School students in the Art Institute program visited the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center in Glen Cove on April 1 more

By Jeff Bessen | 5/2/19

Holocaust Remembrance Day will be commemorated in the Five Towns on May 1.

Remembering Shoah’s victims and survivors

The Holocaust is part of Syd Mandelbaum’s DNA. He was conceived in the Landsberg displaced-persons camp near Munich, where his parents, Joseph and Lena Mandelbaum, spent five years after World War II before they came to the United States. more

By Jeff Bessen | 4/25/19

David Gill, left, Consul General of Germany in New York, lit one of the Holocaust remembrance candles at the Temple of Israel event. At right, Rabbi Jay Rosenbaum.

Commemorating the Holocaust, remembering Martin Luther King Jr.

More than half a century after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and 80 years since the beginning of the Holocaust the battle against anti-Semitism and racism remains a large … more

By Jeff Bessen | 1/31/19

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