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In Loving Memory of My Great-Aunt Masha.

By Alison Berg

Masha was a survivor of Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen, where she and her sister, Anna, performed slave labor on an assembly line for a Nazi airplane factory. They were on a death march together, but liberated by the Russians. Masha eventually moved to the US joining her sister.

Masha was not hesitant or ashamed to call herself a survivor. She did so with defiance. She would mention it in the context of being able to conquer any other hardship she could face in her new life. Keep reading

Living Links and OneTable partner to connect Holocaust survivors' descendants through shared history and Shabbat.

September 15 – WASHINGTON D.C

Living Links, the first nationwide organization created for descendants of Holocaust survivors—particularly grandchildren (“3Gs”)— to share their families' stories, and OneTable, a North American non-profit that empowers young adults to find, share, and enjoy Shabbat dinners in their own homes and communities, are partnering to bring 3G Stories Shabbat to cities across the United States. Keep Reading

A Decade Ago, 300 Survivors Marked their Liberation at Auschwitz. This year, 50 Will Go

January 23, 2025, timesofisrael.com

For Holocaust memory activist Lea Ganor, traveling from Israel to Poland for the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz-Birkenau’s liberation is a sacred mission.

“I feel this is our mission in life to be there, as Israelis, as the children of survivors. I think our presence there means a lot, especially in the times we are in with antisemitism around the world and the complicated situation Israel is in,” Ganor told The Times of Israel. Keep Reading