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10/20/2026

Irena Sendler risked her life to save strangers.

Robert Eisenstädt had one chance to escape—and he took it.Forcibly removed from their home, the German Jewish Eisenstädt...
10/19/2026

Robert Eisenstädt had one chance to escape—and he took it.

Forcibly removed from their home, the German Jewish Eisenstädt family was sent to Majdanek concentration camp. Separated from their family, Robert and a brother survived brutal forced labor together until a sudden reassignment split them apart.

Exhausted and alone, Robert made plans to escape. He stole a German uniform and hid it in his jacket. “I don't think it was five minutes before a German military police caught me,” he recalled.

Fearing he’d be killed after the guard reported him, Robert panicked and grabbed another uniform. This time, he hid it in the garbage until he could escape. Later that day, Robert slipped on the disguise and scaled the wall, fleeing from the camp while two guards were distracted.

Robert made the dangerous journey of over 600 miles back to Germany. He survived in hiding before escaping to Switzerland, but remained forever haunted at the memory of leaving his brother—who did not survive the Holocaust—behind.

Almost all of Robert’s immediate family was murdered in the Holocaust.

Photo: Swiss Federal Archives E4264 #1985/196 #12238*, ref. N07957, EISENSTAEDT, ROBERT, 25.07.1919; EISENSTAEDT, MARIA ADINA, 04.06.1943; EISENSTAEDT-MU

10/18/2026

Werner Teitz was a vibrant, disabled Jewish teenager whose full life and future were stolen by the Holocaust.

10/14/2026

Selma and Chaim met and fell in love at the Sobibor killing center. The young Jewish couple made a daring escape during the camp uprising in 1943 and went into hiding.
At least 167,000 Jews were murdered at Sobibor.

10/12/2026

When Doriane immigrated to America as an orphan with her brother Freddie, she carried a tiny coin purse—a small anchor to the past they miraculously survived.

10/10/2026

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10/09/2026

Without this man's determination, "Schindler's List" might never have reached the screen.

10/07/2026

Three years ago Hamas terrorists launched a premeditated slaughter of innocent Israeli citizens, unleashing an explosion of violent antisemitism worldwide. As we remember the victims of 10/7, we must all recommit to confronting anti-Jewish hate wherever it appears.

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