Members phkrause Posted May 9, 2021 Author Members Share Posted May 9, 2021 Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus In January 1939, the Jewish organization Brith Sholom asked Philadelphia couple Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus to go to Nazi Germany in order to rescue 50 Jewish children. The Krauses, who were Jewish, made the dangerous journey to Nazi-occupied Vienna to choose the children and bring them to the United States to live with foster families. They hoped that the kids would eventually reunite with their parents. https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/personal-story/eleanor-gilbert-kraus?utm phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 11, 2021 Author Members Share Posted October 11, 2021 A Forgotten Suitcase: The Mantello Rescue Mission https://www.ushmm.org/collections/the-museums-collections/collections-highlights/mantello-rescue-mission? phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted December 30, 2021 Author Members Share Posted December 30, 2021 This is really, really cool!! A Jewish Couple Saved a Church. Their Generosity Ended Up Saving Jewish Lives Solomon and Esther Ueberall raised the funds needed to keep a NY church open. Decades later during the Holocaust, their generosity was repaid in a remarkable manner. https://www.aish.com/jw/s/A-Jewish-Couple-Saved-a-Church-Their-Generosity-Ended-Up-Saving-Jewish-Lives.html phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted January 18, 2022 Author Members Share Posted January 18, 2022 "Women of Valor" Stories of Women Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/righteous-women/index.asp?utm phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted January 24, 2022 Author Members Share Posted January 24, 2022 Danish Teen Hid Jews and Ferried Them to Sweden: Preben Munch-Nielsen https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/id-card/preben-munch-nielsen? phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted January 24, 2022 Author Members Share Posted January 24, 2022 When a Family Was Deported, Their Cook Saved Treasured Recipes In 1944, 12-year-old Steven Fenves and his family were forced into a Jewish ghetto in their hometown of Subotica, part of Axis-occupied Yugoslavia. https://medium.com/memory-action/when-a-family-was-deported-their-cook-saved-treasured-recipes-34709abba724 phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted January 25, 2022 Author Members Share Posted January 25, 2022 Muslim Gives Prayer Rug and Aid to Protect Jewish Friend in Hiding https://somewereneighbors.ushmm.org/?utm phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted January 30, 2022 Author Members Share Posted January 30, 2022 The American Couple who Risked Everything to Help Holocaust Refugees Only five Americans were honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous of the Nations. This is the story of two of them. https://www.aish.com/ho/p/The-American-Couple-who-Risked-Everything-to-Help-Holocaust-Refugees.html? phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted March 3, 2022 Author Members Share Posted March 3, 2022 Leading 100 Jews Out of Ukraine March 3, 2022 | by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller Rabbi Nisan Podolsky is rescuing Jews from Ukraine. I’m in Belarus,” explains Rabbi Nisan Podolsky, just days after escaping from war-ravaged Ukraine. “We’re still working on getting more people out. We’re not resting here.” In an Aish.com interview, Rabbi Podolsky recounted the harrowing trip he and a hundred other Jews made last Shabbat as they escaped from Ukraine. Born in Jerusalem, Rabbi Podolsky is a member of the Karlin-Stolin hasidic group that was founded in the 1700s in present-day Belarus. Known for their piety, hospitality, and devotion in prayer, these hasidic Jews live in Israel and around the world, while Rabbi Boruch Meir Yaakov Shochet, their rebbe, resides in Jerusalem. In the years since the end of Communism, some Jews in Belarus and Ukraine have revived the region’s once-vibrant community. Rabbi Podolsky teachng a group of students in Kyiv In Kyiv, they have flourished. “We have shuls, schools, and a dormitory yeshiva,” Rabbi Podolsky explains. Rabbi Podolsky lived in Kyiv with his wife Shevy and their six children; the youngest two are 10-week-old twin girls. They joined over a hundred other Karlin-Stolin Jews in Kyiv, including 50 students in the community’s schools. Other Jews would “pop in once in a while to community events to feel a Jewish connection.” As Russia built up its troops along Ukraine’s borders throughout February, many Ukrainians refused to believe their neighbor would actually invade. Residents in Kyiv, the capital, knew they would be the prime target of any invasion, but the thought that their country would actually come under attack seemed impossible. In Jerusalem, Rabbi Shochet took the threat of a Russian invasion seriously. He sent an urgent message to Rabbi Podolsky telling him that he and his whole community must leave Kyiv immediately. At the time, people were looking at us like we were crazy,” Rabbi Podolsky recalls. Their neighbors asked, “Why are you leaving the city? It looks okay.” Undaunted, Rabbi Podolsky and hundred other Karlin-Stolin Jews moved from Kyiv to the small village of Medzhybizh in Ukraine where they thought they wouldn’t be a prime target. Evacuating a Torah Scroll Medzhybizh is more west than Kyiv and smaller, so it felt safer,” Rabbi Podolsky notes. Medzhybizh is the birthplace of the Baal Shem Tov, (c1699-1760), the founder of the hasidic movement. For that reason, many Jewish tourists visit the town. “We rented out the big kosher hotel that’s there for the Jewish tourists who come.” For two weeks, he and his congregants – students, adults and entire families – waited to see if Russia would invade. Local residents thought the group of Jews awaiting an invasion seemed crazy. On Thursday, February 24, the invasion began. “I woke up very early that morning,” Rabbi Podolsky recalls. “I checked the news and heard that President Putin was giving a speech. I knew something was going to happen. At 6 AM I went outside and saw planes flying overhead and heard explosions in the distance.” He knew that remaining in Ukraine – even in a small town like Mezhyrich – was no longer safe. We started to think about our options.” The group had several cars with them, but not enough to take everyone to safety. They chartered a bus with a driver, but instead of reporting for work, the driver raced to check on his own family once the invasion began. The Jews in Medzhybizh were stranded. Friday came and amid the ongoing war, Rabbi Podolsky started making plans for Shabbat. “The roads were all blocked; there were checkpoints.” It seemed their driver would never return. The driver finally returned and Rabbi Podolsky knew they had to leave immediately. Driving or traveling in a bus on Shabbat is prohibited but when human life is at stake, it’s permissible. After double-checking with another rabbi that this was indeed a matter of life and death, Rabbi Podolsky urged his congregants to get onto the bus. “We left half an hour after candle lighting… we had a whole convoy of the bus and cars.” The trip was harrowing. They stopped at checkpoints and shared the roads with tanks and cannons. In the distance they heard shooting. “It was really scary; we were in the middle of a war,” Rabbi Podolslky recalls. The terrified Jews recited the Shabbat evening prayers on the bus that was their only hope for freedom, welcoming in Shabbat and making Kiddush. They headed to Belarus. “It sounded crazy because everyone was trying to drive to the European Union,” Rabbi Podoslky recalls. Belarus is closely allied with Russia: they speculated that the guards on the Belarusian border might not be expecting refugees and would let them through, but they couldn’t be sure. “When our convoy finally arrived at the Belarusian border at 2 AM, the guards opened the gates for us. We were finally safe.” Hours later, the Belarus border was closed. Jews in Ukraine safely arriving Local Jews had reserved hotel rooms near the border and supplied them with Shabbat food, challah and wine. It was an emotional moment. One member of the group recited the Jewish prayer of thanksgiving, said after experiencing a narrow, life-saving escape, and the entire congregation responded with a heartfelt Amen. This group of Jews has moved on to the Belarusian city of Pinsk, where the local Karlin-Stolin community is putting them up. Rabbi Podolsky is continuing to bring more Jews out of Ukraine. “I got four buses out today to Moldova,” he said during an Aish.com interview on Wednesday, March 2. “We’re still bringing people out of Kyiv – I’m on the phone right now with an elderly lady trying to convince her that it will be okay, that the journey will be okay.” Even with Kyiv and other key Ukrainian cities coming under siege by Russian forces, Rabbi Podolsky refuses to give up his life-saving work. People are asking for help. We’re working on arranging buses.” He notes that it’s incredibly difficult to find drivers willing to risk their lives to ferry refugees to safety, and the cost of hiring drivers is tremendous. Once refugees are out of Ukraine, they require assistance. “Everyone left everything behind,” Rabbi Podolsky explains. Rabbi Podolsky has set up an emergency fund to help his life-saving work rescue Ukrainian Jews. To donate, go to: https://thechesedfund.com/Kyiv https://aish.com/leading-100-jews-out-of-ukraine/?src=ac-rdm phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted March 13, 2022 Author Members Share Posted March 13, 2022 Israeli Rescues Ukrainian Grandchildren of Woman who Saved her Family in the Holocaust Sharon Bass felt it was her obligation to be there for them and close the debt her family owed them. https://aish.com/israeli-rescues-ukrainian-grandchildren-of-woman-who-saved-her-family-in-the-holocaust/? phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted April 17, 2022 Author Members Share Posted April 17, 2022 Despite the War, I’ll Be Hosting My Family’s Seder in Ukraine In the seven weeks since everything changed in Ukraine, few things bring comfort because tragedy surrounds us. For me, and for many women around me who also remain in Ukraine, the main solace we have found has been in community and routines. Of course, we need all of the humanitarian aid, financial support and world support that we can get. No less important, though, is making and holding space for Ukrainian women to feel supported, loved and seen at this time. https://www.kveller.com/despite-the-war-ill-be-hosting-my-familys-seder-in-ukraine/? phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted April 17, 2022 Author Members Share Posted April 17, 2022 Jewish Actor Liev Schrieber is Cooking Passover Brisket for Ukrainian Refugees One thing is evident about “Ray Donovan” star Liev Schrieber — he is clearly a mensch! The actor, who is the grandson of a Jewish Ukrainian immigrant, landed in Przemysl, Poland this past Monday to help feed Ukrainian refugees in the city. https://www.kveller.com/jewish-actor-liev-schrieber-is-cooking-passover-brisket-for-ukrainian-refugees/? phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted April 30, 2022 Author Members Share Posted April 30, 2022 The Indian Princess who Fought Nazis Noor Inayat Khan courageously spied for Britain behind enemy lines. https://aish.com/the-indian-princess-who-fought-nazis/?src=ac-rdm phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 3, 2022 Author Members Share Posted July 3, 2022 Two Holocaust Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews Have Died Both Andree Guelen and Jozef Walaszczyk lived over 100 years and were named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem. https://aish.com/two-holocaust-heroes-who-risked-their-lives-to-save-jews-have-died/?acid=596077a396aaaede3a05207faf260fbb&src=ac-txt phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted July 10, 2022 Author Members Share Posted July 10, 2022 Raoul Wallenberg and the Rescue of Jews in Budapest Raoul Wallenberg was born on August 4, 1912, in Stockholm, Sweden. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/raoul-wallenberg-and-the-rescue-of-jews-in-budapest? phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted September 2, 2022 Author Members Share Posted September 2, 2022 Mikhail Gorbachev in His Own Words 10 quotes by and about the Soviet leader. https://aish.com/mikhail-gorbachev-in-his-own-words/? phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted October 29, 2022 Author Members Share Posted October 29, 2022 Muslim Heroes of the Holocaust Four remarkable stories that some Muslims don’t want to be publicized. https://aish.com/muslims-heroes-of-the-holocaust/ phkrause 1 Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted January 6, 2023 Author Members Share Posted January 6, 2023 A new mural in Nolita celebrates a Holocaust rescuer (New York Jewish Week) — In the heavily trafficked neighborhood of Nolita, a larger-than-life mural has popped up on the corner of Spring St. and Elizabeth St. Bright orange and pink paint spell out the words “Saved 3,000 Jewish Lives” next to a black and white portrait of Holocaust rescuer Tibor Baranski. https://www.jta.org/2023/01/05/ny/a-new-mural-in-nolita-celebrates-a-holocaust-rescuer? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted January 14, 2023 Author Members Share Posted January 14, 2023 This year’s ‘Jewish Nobel’ is a group prize, going to Jewish activists supporting Ukraine (JTA) — A prize established to honor a single inspiring Jew with a lifetime of achievements has been awarded this year to a nameless group whose work is ongoing: Jewish activists in war-ravaged Ukraine. https://www.jta.org/2023/01/11/global/this-years-jewish-nobel-is-a-group-prize-going-to-jewish-activists-in-ukraine? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted February 3, 2023 Author Members Share Posted February 3, 2023 The Forger Who Saved 14,000 Jews As a teen, Adolfo Kaminsky forged passports to help children flee the Nazis. The Holocaust hero recently passed away at age 97. https://aish.com/the-forger-who-saved-14000-jews/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted January 12 Author Members Share Posted January 12 The Counterfeit Countess Who Saved 10,000 People from the Nazis On September 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland. The Polish people tried to defend themselves, but within only three weeks, the Nazis had successfully taken over. https://aish.com/the-counterfeit-countess-who-saved-10000-people-from-the-nazis/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted March 12 Author Members Share Posted March 12 Risking His Life to Recover Bodies on October 7 In the days following the Hamas brutal terrorist attack on October 7th, Simcha Greiniman, senior volunteer for Zaka International, was charged with collecting the victims’ bodies and body parts in the burned houses and cars in the south of Israel. Having witnessed the horrific sights, he now travels around the world, presenting the hard evidence of Hamas crimes. https://aish.com/risking-his-life-to-recover-bodies-on-october-7/? Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members phkrause Posted March 12 Author Members Share Posted March 12 Hannah Szenes: The Young Poet and Parachutist Who Risked Her Life to Help Fellow Jews during World War II Before leaving for a perilous mission into Nazi-occupied Hungary, Hannah Szenes handed a piece of paper to her comrade. It contained a poem, which she wanted him to keep in case she never returned. https://medium.com/memory-action/hannah-szenes-the-young-poet-and-parachutist-who-risked-her-life-to-help-fellow-jews-during-world-0f88a570960d Quote phkrause Obstinacy is a barrier to all improvement. - ChL 60 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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