The AMCHA organization was started 30 years ago by Holocaust survivors and health care professionals to address a “conspiracy of silence” and provide survivors with the support they need.
Australian racewalker Jemima Montag wore a gold bracelet made from a necklace that belonged to her late grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, when she won her second Commonwealth Games gold medal.
'I have no words to express my happiness,' said the winner, who enjoyed the special day of pampering and hopes “to lead the people of Israel to beauty and goodness.”
Hebrew University researchers find significantly higher rates of mortality due to heart disease and cancer among Holocaust survivors. Courtesy Israel Government Press Office The damaging effects of life under Nazi rule have long been known, with many victims having experienced periods of protracted emotional and physical torture, malnutrition and mass exposure to disease. But recent... Read more »
Holocaust survivors sing the Israeli national anthem, knowing they would be arrested for trying to enter British-mandated Palestine and the future Jewish state.
'It is our collective obligation to safeguard this treasured yet vulnerable population in the spirit of mutual responsibility,' says Minister Omer Yankelevich.
'I know that there’s someone thinking of me, I’m not alone in the world,' says 85-year-old Holocaust survivor. 'Someone thinking about sweetening Shabbat.'
'We must remember each person as an individual who had a family, a profession and a community, to focus on the way they lived full lives, not just how they perished,' said the founder of the initiative.
This 89-year-old Holocaust survivor beat the Nazis as a child is now experiencing the joy of seeing her grandson take to the sky as an Israeli Air Force pilot.
'It is thanks to her and to all the other European icons that I am presenting my vision of Europe to you today,' the first female European Commission president said.
The primary need of Holocaust survivors and their descendants is to live in dignity. A onetime apology and financial deal hasn't produced dignified lives.
Six hundred survivors gathered together to sing 'Chai,' made famous by legendary Israeli artist Ofra Haza, ahead of Israel's Holocaust Remembrance Day.