Archive for August, 2008

Holocaust Survivor Gives Home to Surviving Torah

Martin Small, Holocaust survivor and subject of the new book about his life, Remember Us: from my shtetl through the Holocaust, in a miraculous fundraising effort, has given an old Torah a new home. Martin is donating the proceeds from ... Read more..

Warsaw Ghetto: Woman Who Smuggled Out Babies in Sacks

Irena Sendler, born in 1910, saved 2500 Jewish infants from certain death in the Warsaw Ghetto. She smuggled the children out of the ghetto in sacks under the Nazis' noses Irena Sendler was raised by her Catholic parents to respect and ... Read more..