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Lovingly called “Schwester Selma” (Sister Selma or Nurse Selma in German), Selma Mayer served as the head nurse of Fellowship-funded Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem for nearly half a century.

Tracing the Hollywood star's roots in the Netherlands, her covert activities against the occupying Nazis, and how she helped save Dutch Jews.

Kazys Binkis was a renowned Lithuanian writer, poet, and journalist. So when the Nazis invaded his home country, the righteous actions this Gentile took to save his Jewish neighbours were even more noticeable and life-threatening, which make him and his family true heroes of the Holocaust.

A Dutch Christian and member of the Salvation Army, Alida Bosshardt sheltered and cared for many Jewish children during the Holocaust.

In the summer of 1942, the Belgian schoolteacher was shocked as her students arrived for class. Some of the students wore a yellow star on their clothes — required by the country’s Nazi occupiers.

We are big fans of musicals, and Fiddler on the Roof is among our favourites. So it is with sadness that we acknowledge the passing of Topol, the Israeli actor and singer most famous for his role as Tevye.

Millions of people around the world know Dr. Ruth Westheimer from her decades spent as a therapist and a television personality. But not many know that she also not only survived the Holocaust, but served the Jewish people on the battlefield, as a sniper during war.

The Jerusalem Post’s Alan Rosenbaum shares the story of an elderly Holocaust survivor in Israel, who tells of chilling trials and tribulations as a child.

The heartbreaking decision so many Jewish parents faced during the Holocaust can be found in a letter from a mother to her child.

As soccer fans across the globe focus on the World Cup in Qatar, we remember Israel's lone goal in the World Cup in 1970.

As World War II raged and Europe fell to Hitler’s regime, some stood up to the Nazis’ hatred. French Christian Marie-Rose Gineste did so… on her bicycle.

Many of Einstein’s developments continue to help Israeli science from Israel’s space program to help founding Hebrew University.