Holocaust

A hesitant German commander couldn't decide if the Mountain Jews fell under the extermination orders. Thousands were gathered and forced into camps, but the decision remained unresolved. As fate would have it, the Red Army arrived just in time, ousting the Nazis and sparing most of the community.

After ten challenging days on the island, an Italian aircraft spotted the SOS signals left by the survivors. Two ships from Rhodes were dispatched for a rescue. However, the Italians, who were part of the Axis powers, detained them in a camp on Rhodes Island, where they lived in tents under harsh conditions for a long time.

While some German companies that profited from forced Jewish labor during the Holocaust faced justice at the Nuremberg Trials, most walked free with minimal consequences. It wasn't until 1999 that Germany took steps to compensate these exploited individuals.

Discover how Rabbi Shulman reacted after his wife and children miraculously survived the Holocaust and how the yeshiva he loved was inaugurated amid the turmoil.

In 1946, under the guise of relocation, Jews from Brisk found themselves in a Siberian labor camp after a grueling flight meant to take them to Poland. Families were torn apart as children were sent to orphanages and parents to prison cells.

During World War II, the Jewish community of Djerba faced peril under Nazi occupation. With clever negotiation and a stroke of divine luck, they evaded disaster.

What the Nazis couldn’t destroy, others did. Jews were told it was a 'temporary evacuation,' but it was the end of a centuries-old community in Tripoli.

A Jewish family's home in the USA was completely burned, but then they discovered: one menorah that belonged to a Holocaust survivor became the last testimony for the family.

Imagine the shock on their faces: the soldiers who captured them spoke Hebrew and proudly flew the Star of David. For a Nazi soldier, surrendering to Jews at gunpoint was the ultimate humiliation, a nightmare come to life.

Karaites created a narrative of superiority over Jews, claiming they weren't Jewish. During the Holocaust, they sought non-Jewish certificates from the Nazi regime. Many Karaites in Europe collaborated with the Nazis, informed on Jews, and even joined the Nazi military, marking their separation from the Jewish people.

“Rabbi from Ponevezh scrubs with soap, and the tears of both mix with the water.” A touching story about the compassion and leadership in the Jewish community.

In a time of profound danger for European Jews, Western nations turned their backs. Explore the heartbreaking journey of 937 Jewish refugees aboard the MS St. Louis, sent back to a Europe under Nazi threat after being denied asylum.

"And if today," said Rabbi of Ponovezh with tears, "I give my all to rebuild from scratch, it's not thanks to my Rosh Yeshiva or my supervisor, but thanks to my mother, who instilled in us a love for Torah."

In Worms, Germany, lies a synagogue that's stood for a near millennium, housing a plaque nearly 1,000 years old. This is where Rashi, the revered scholar, studied as a young man under Rabbi Yaakov ben Yakar.

Under Nazi orders, scientists developed a fake vaccine while secretly crafting a real one to save lives.

A letter by a Jewish child named David Shpielman was penned in the Lodz Ghetto in 1940, addressed to a Jewish child in Israel. It was recently found in a basement in Poland. Among other things, he wrote: "We are learning to speak Hebrew and to write. We're also learning to sing in Hebrew. Tomorrow is the Chanukah holiday."

Amid the chaos of war and the pressure of Nazi occupation, Vittorio Emanuel conceived a daring plan: invent a disease. Collaborating with an Italian friend, the young doctor began filling out reports, preserving samples, and documenting hospitalizations—all centered around a fictitious disease he named 'Syndrome K'.

A volume of the Talmud that survived World War II found its way from Hitler's basement to President Herzog's family, and now it has reached Jerusalem. Here's the full story.

When Martin stepped out wearing the officer's shirt, the kapo stared in disbelief but said nothing. From that day until the end of the war, Martin became known as the 'white-collar prisoner.'

The Subbotniks are a community with ties to the Jewish people. Some are non-Jews drawn to Shabbat, while others have embraced conversion. Pre-Holocaust, they numbered in the tens of thousands, sparking significant discussions among Jewish legal scholars.