by John Weiser | Sep 23, 2026 | Holocaust
Tracing Jewish ancestry is one of the most rewarding and most demanding genealogical pursuits you can undertake. Centuries of migration, forced name changes, destroyed communities, and the Holocaust have scattered records across continents and languages, leaving many...
by John Weiser | Sep 17, 2026 | Holocaust
Youth Aliyah was a Jewish rescue and resettlement movement founded by Recha Freier in Germany in 1933. It helped thousands of Jewish children and teenagers escape Nazi-controlled Europe and begin new lives in Mandatory Palestine, where Henrietta Szold and other...
by John Weiser | Sep 11, 2026 | Holocaust
The Kindertransport was a rescue operation that brought approximately 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Nazi-occupied territories to Great Britain between December 1938 and September 1939. For many, this journey meant survival—but it came at an immense cost:...
by John Weiser | Sep 7, 2026 | Holocaust
In late 1938, thousands of parents facing Nazi persecution made an almost unimaginable decision: send their children alone to another country without knowing whether the family would ever be reunited. How did the Kindertransport work? The Kindertransport was a series...
by John Weiser | Aug 28, 2026 | Holocaust
During the Nazi book burnings of 1933, students and Nazi supporters destroyed works by authors such as Erich Maria Remarque, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Helen Keller, Ernest Hemingway, Jack London, Bertolt Brecht, and Heinrich Mann. The campaign...
