‘Restoring My Lost Childhood’: How children’s homes revived the youngest Holocaust survivors
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‘Restoring My Lost Childhood’: How children’s homes revived the youngest Holocaust survivors
A new online exhibit released by Yad Vashem in time for International Holocaust Remembrance Day reveals the story of how group homes across Europe provided children with a place to heal and reconnect with the Jewish people.
(January 21, 2021 / JNS) It’s been 75 years, but Yaakov Guterman can still recall nearly everything about the nine months he lived in Zakopane, Poland.
He remembers that all of a sudden in this group home for children who’d survived the Holocaust, he had plenty of good food to eat, clean mountain air to breathe, other kids to play with and loving adults to care for him. “It was the best time of my life,” he says, speaking from his longtime home on Kibbutz HaOgen. “I was so happy there.”
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8 Memorable Jewish Quotes from 2020
Select quotes from a tumultuous year.
2020 was filled with anguish, misery and loss – and also with moments of giving and hope. Here are eight Jewish quotes from this tumultuous year.
On Reaching Out and Helping Others
With the pandemic upending life for millions of people, communities came together like never before to help and support one another. In Pikesville, Maryland – as in countless other Jewish communities around the world – Jews organized community programs to shop for those who were sheltering in place and could not go into stores. Rabbi Shmuel Silber, leader of Congregation Toras Chaim in Pikesville, Maryland, summed up his community’s ethos:
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