Added: 16th November 2008 Posted By:isralife Views: 19 Comments:0
Rabbi Meir Lau went from being the youngest survivor from the Buchenwald death camps in Nazi Germany to becoming the Chief Rabbi of the modern State of Israel. Rabbi Israel Meir Lau was born in 1937 in Pyotrekov, Poland. A survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp, he lost both of his parents...
Added: 27th October 2008 Posted By:shoahstories Views: 123 Comments:0
"Left Luggage" Trailer (1998) - While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which makes him look...
Added: 26th October 2008 Posted By:moviejewie Views: 71 Comments:0
"Souvenirs" Trailer - Shahar is an unemployed filmmaker. His father, Sleiman, a strict 82 year old Yemenite, is unhappy with Shahar's life style. The golden age of Sleiman's life was his service in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army during WWII, of which he constantly bragged to his sons. As...
Added: 2nd October 2008 Posted By:mishpacha Views: 93 Comments:0
Group Offers Jews $50,000 To Move To Alabama Town - Larry Blumberg is looking for a few good Jews to move to his town in Alabama. Blumberg is chairman of an organization offering Jewish families as much as $50,000 to relocate to Dothan, an overwhelmingly Christian town of 58,000 that calls itself...
Added: 14th August 2008 Posted By:shoahstories Views: 141 Comments:1
Legend tells that after the Holocaust, Rav Yosef Kahaneman zt'l, looking for Jewish children who had survived the war. Some of the children had ended up in churches. He was granted permission to enter the children's quarters - when he entered he began calling out "Shema Yisroel" and instinctively...