A rescue committee of two.
Ida and Louise might best be described as “frumpy” – English spinsters, dressed in homemade clothes. They were nervous types, a little...
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An unknown French wash woman.
It was a cold February morning in 1943. Little Gerda and her mother were German Jews living quietly on the fringes of society in Lyon,...
Until he found what he was searching for.
There are two heroes in this story – the first is Fanny Solomian, a young Jewish woman from Pinsk in Poland. Before the war she studied...
You decide.
Mildred Fish-Harnack was a young woman ahead of her time. In the early 1930s she was teaching literature at the University of Berlin, in...
His own personal miracle.
One more trip, one more disappointment – the train ride from Germany to Austria was just one of many Elias had taken in these months...
No greater love.
Many of us today don’t realize the fate that awaited Poland at the hands of Nazi Germany in 1939. The Germans intended the complete...
Little Loesje, loved and cherished.
She was only four years old that summer of 1942 when she came to live with her new family. Little Loesje Pinto, or Louise as we might...
The courageous kindergarten teacher.
It was the early 1930s and little Jennie Lebl was just starting kindergarten in Miss Glavaski’s class in Nis in southeast Serbia. It was...
The most beautiful woman in the world.
When the United Kingdom declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, it faced innumerable problems, and among those problems, there...
How to watch the film!
Beloved Children of the Holocaust, the film, is now available on FOS Entertainment! "This film is the incredible story of Mary Burkett,...
Into the sewer below.
Strange, is it not, how lives intersect? Such was the case of Krystina Chirowski and Leopold Socha. Krystina was just a little girl...
An example worth far more.
It is hard for us to imagine the situation that existed across Europe in 1943. Countless families had been ripped apart, leaving children...
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