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Hermanna van Corbach holding Andy, the child she saved during the Holocaust
My Beloved Child
IFCJ Canada  |  January 27, 2023
The heartbreaking decision so many Jewish parents faced during the Holocaust can be found in a letter from a mother to her child.
Israeli's World Cup 1970 goal
Israel's World Cup Goal
IFCJ Canada  |  November 25, 2022
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.
A Righteous Gentile on a Bicycle
IFCJ Canada  |  November 3, 2022
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.
Albert Einstein on the left
Einstein Museum in Jerusalem
IFCJ Canada  |  November 3, 2022
Many of Einstein’s developments continue to help Israeli science from Israel’s space program to help founding Hebrew University.
Cyla Cybulska and Jerzy Bielecki
Escape from Auschwitz
IFCJ Canada  |  June 27, 2022
This is the story of how a young Polish man, himself a prisoner at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, helped a Jewish woman escape.
From Holocaust to Famine
IFCJ Canada  |  May 10, 2022
The famine that followed World War II proved to be nearly as horrible as the Nazi atrocities that Holocaust survivors had just endured.
Hermann Ludwig Maas
A Pastor and a Holocaust Passover
IFCJ Canada  |  April 21, 2022
Called "The Pastor of the Jews" by the Nazis, Herman Maas not only worshiped with his Jewish brothers and sisters, he saved them, as well.
Gino and Rina Selvi harbored Jews during the Holocaust
A Passover Prayer
IFCJ Canada  |  April 5, 2022
This Christian couple from Italy hid their Jewish neighbours during the Holocaust, together praying for Passover deliverance.
Alfred Munzer and the Madna Family in 1940
Surrounded by Love and Laughter
IFCJ Canada  |  January 14, 2022
Tole Madna and his housekeeper, the only two Righteous Gentiles from Indonesia, saved a Jewish child in the Netherlands from the Nazis.
Cave in Judean desert, site of discovered biblical texts
2,000-Year-Old Biblical Text Found in Israel
IFCJ Canada  |  March 17, 2021
The Israel Antiquities Authority has made an astounding finding in the Judean desert - the first of its kind since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Entrance to Auschwitz
Righteous Bricklayer at Auschwitz-Birkenau
IFCJ Canada  |  February 2, 2021
An Italian bricklayer forced to work at Auschwitz, Lorenzo Perrone saved the life of Primo Levi, the Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor.
Excavation at et-Taiyiba
Ancient ‘Christ, born of Mary’ inscription unearthed in Israel
IFCJ Canada  |  January 25, 2021
Greek inscription bearing the name “Christ, born of Mary” was unearthed in northern Israel