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A brave, uncooperative sultan.
It is said that to save the life of one person is to change the world. But what about saving the lives of a quarter million? This was the...


A young priest in Krakow.
Josefa would never forget the night when her friend, Helen Hiller, knocked on her door with little two-year-old Schachne in her arms. She...


In the theatre of life.
1939 was a year that would go down in history for a number of reasons. It was, of course, the year when Hitler would begin World War II...


Any decent person.
Camera lovers will recognize the name Leica, the first 35mm camera, invented by photography pioneer Ernst Leitz. Mr. Leitz started his...


What home really means.
Israel Baline was only five, a little guy living in Tyumen, a village in Siberia. An anti-Jewish mob attacked the town, and the Baline...


She stood.
In 1942, Sister Denise Bergon was the young Mother Superior of the Convent of Notre Dame de Massip, about 100 miles from Toulouse,...

A mother waits.
Emilie Rohlova is not a name to be found in the history books. Her life was a tiny footnote in a much greater story, a story of power and...


He refused.
He was one of those people found only in newspapers and newsreels in the 1930s. Bronislaw Czech was young, good-looking, a three-time...


Beloved, the film!
To watch the trailer, visit: belovedchildrenoftheholocaust.com. This film is the incredible story of Mary Burkett, an untrained artist,...


Victory took all sorts.
In the fall of 1941, Julia McWilliams was 29 years old, bright, well-educated, and like many young women of her generation working as a...


A little-known heroine.
Imagine yourself in the city of Roman in Romania in the summer of 1941. Your country is a staunch ally of Nazi Germany, and although home...


An inner conviction.
Marianne Tolska was already a famous and successful singer and dancer when she moved to Berlin in 1924. It was there she met Hans Golz,...
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