Israeli Holocaust Survivors Could be Alone – This One is Not
Livia Shacter is a 101-year-old Holocaust survivor who goes to exercise, paint and eat meals with friends nearly every day.
When Every Penny Counts
Last summer, 12 year-old Sydney Jerome from Teaneck, New Jersey, came to Israel to celebrate her cousin’s Bar Mitzvah. During this trip, her family volunteered to pack dried healthful food, like beans and rice, for Israel’s impoverished citizens.
Parental PTSD Affects Health Behavior Among Holocaust Survivors’ Adult Children
Although Jewish Holocaust survivors – average 85 years old today – are generally considered an amazingly resilient group despite the terrors that they endured, those that suffer from post-trauma have been found to adopt harmful health behaviors like smoking, drinking alcohol and avoiding physical exercise. Unfortunately, these survivors also tend to “hand down” such behaviors to their adult children, who are now middle aged or even older.
‘Mothers With Meaning’ Help Make Miracles Happen
Late November, a group of women from “Mothers With Meaning,” as part of a trip with Masa Israel, visited Meir Panim charity organization’s Dimona branch in southern Israel. The group was so touched by Meir Panim’s good work, as they visited its Holocaust Survivors program, that they decided to arrange a special event for the city’s impoverished and mainstream citizens.
Surviving Holocaust Provides Resilience from Death
Sadly, there are only approximately 152,000 Israeli Holocaust Survivors alive today – and the number is due to drop to an estimated 140,000 in 2020, 92,600 in 2025 and 26,000 a decade later. On average, one Holocaust survivor dies in Israel every 45 minutes – or more than 1,000 per month.
Holocaust Survivor Receives Knighthood
Ben – now Sir Ben – Helfgott, is synonymous with Holocaust education in the United Kingdom. An inmate of Buchenwald, Schlieben and Theresienstadt concentration camps, Helfgott survived the horrors of the Holocaust, eventually arriving in Britain at the age of 15. Having taken British citizenship, he represented the country in weightlifting in two Olympic Games; […]
A Hot Meal and a Listening Ear: Homebound Elderly Deserve to Celebrate High Holidays
Each day, elderly Israelis struggle with hunger, loneliness and poverty – and this population is growing. According to Yair Asaf-Shapira, researcher for the Jerusalem Institute, while the elderly population of Israel is lower than other countries due to Israel being a relatively young country, the percentage of elderly people compared to the general population is […]
Newly-Released Animated Short Films Re-imagines Holocaust Documentary Genre
While viewers of other Holocaust films are mostly used to concentration camp footage or interviews with experts and scholars, “The Podkamieners” pioneers a new artistic form of Holocaust storytelling through its .use of animation
An Embrace Between Apologetic Christians and Israeli Holocaust Survivors
Ines Rogg, a German native, and her church group recently made a generous donation in the name of their Pastor Gerd Rodenwald to the Israel365 Charity Fund for support of Holocaust survivors.
Trump Angers Polish Officials With Signing of Holocaust Property Bill
The bill requires the State Department to report to Congress efforts by European countries to compensate Holocaust survivors.
