admin | March 30, 2024
It was Passover 1938, and the Kurc family gathered around the Seder table in Radom, Poland, to celebrate. By the next year, with the onset of World War II, the family found itself scattered far and wide, trying desperately to survive the Holocaust with almost no knowledge of the fate of their loved ones. The Kurc familys story is at the center of We Were the Lucky Ones, a new eight-part Hulu miniseries that covers close to a decade of their harrowing journeys.
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admin | March 30, 2024
This article is alsoavailable as a weeklynewsletter, Life Stories, wherewe remember those who made an outsize impact in the Jewish world or just left their community a better or more interesting place. Subscribe here to get Life Stories in your inbox every Tuesday. In the 1980s, an Auschwitz survivor brought his damaged violin to the Tel Aviv workshop of Israeli luthier Amnon Weinstein.
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admin | March 5, 2024
French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man leaving a synagogue in Paris, says Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. Darmanin says the alleged attack on a man in his early 60s was a new antisemitic attack that occurred in Paris Friday evening. Everything is being done to apprehend the perpetrator of this unspeakable act, Darmanin says in a post on X, formerly Twitter.
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admin | March 5, 2024
A 62-year-old Jewish man was attacked in Paris on Friday. The victim, identified only by his first name Marco, was wearing a kippah and was leaving the synagogue when a man hit him and knocked him to the ground. The assailant reportedly uttered anti-Semitic insults
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