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Born to a Christian family in Rostov, Russia, 16-year-old Feodor Mikhailichenko was too sick to evacuate when the Nazis overran his city. Arrested by the Gestapo, the boy was sentenced to forced labour, ultimately arriving at the infamous Buchenwald concentration camp in 1943.

Israeli singer, lyricist, composer, and arranger Chava Alberstein has been called the most important female folk musician in Israel’s history.

Perhaps you’ve heard about or watched the new television series, A Small Light, about Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family for the two years they spent hiding from the Nazis.

A prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Anne-Marie Epaud was executed by the Nazis for giving water to Jewish prisoners at the extermination camp.

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.