More than 100 Holocaust survivors and their descendants are participating in a new social media campaign that illustrates the importance of passing on the Holocaust survivors’ testimonies as their numbers dwindle. The digital campaign called “Our Holocaust Story: A Pledge to Remember” was launched Tuesday by the New York-based Claims Conference. Videos of survivors together with their children and grandchildren will be featured in posts across the Claims Conference’s social media platforms every week throughout the year. Survivor stories will be shared on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and TikTok using the hashtag #OurHolocaustStory.
BERLIN (AP) Assia Gorban was 7 years old when the Germans occupied her hometown of Mogilev-Podolsky in Ukraine. The Jewish girl and her family were first imprisoned in a ghetto on the outskirts of town and later forced onto a cattle car that took them to the Pechora concentration camp in 1941. After a […]