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Apr 7, 2021, 1:49 PM

The families that were torn apart

Rosalia London (center) and her son Feliks, Kiev, 1936. (courtesy, Yad Vashem Photo Archive)

Despite the uncertainties and privations of war, parents, children, and extended family members hoped and prayed for a better tomorrow

Jan 26, 2021, 10:47 PM

Redemption: The orphans Yeshayahu Drucker returned to the Jewish people

Children at the children's home in Zabrze after the war. From the album of Yeshayahu Drucker, a Polish Army chaplain who retrieved Jewish children from Christian homes and convents, and brought them to the children's home in Zabrze as part of the process of returning them to the Jewish fold.

After WWII, this Jewish Polish army chaplain brought hundreds of children out of hiding from monasteries, orphanages and Polish families

Apr 21, 2020, 1:51 AM

Jews who rescued Jews during the Holocaust

The children saved by Ignac Weiss, director of the Jewish retirement home in Zagreb Gavro Sternfeld (from right, bottom), his sister Leah and their cousin Leo Herman, Split, Croatia, 1943. (Courtesy of Yad Vashem Photo Archive)

Against all reason, they took enormous risks. Here are 2 such inspiring stories, part of a Yad Vashem exhibit now online

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About Me

Yona Kobo is a researcher and Online Exhibitions Coordinator in the Digital Department, Communications Division, Yad Vashem.