A heartbreaking Irish famine story of death and despair in a small west of Ireland village. A group of 600 Irish starving during the Great Hunger set out to Doolough, in County Mayo. to find food. Most of them did not survive.
Learn about how the New York Jewish community made donations to Ireland during the era of the Great Famine. A previously unknown act of kindness by the Jewish community in New York sending relief for the Irish Famine was uncovered in 2010.
Like many Native American communities, the Choctaw Nation was hit hard by the pandemic. In the wake of the deaths of so many tribal elders, it is falling on the tribe's younger generation to keep the culture alive.