Holocaust

Perhaps more remarkable than just their stories of surviving the Holocaust, it turns out that Holocaust survivors in Israel are averaging a life span seven years longer than their native-born peers. In a new study published in JAMA, researchers have found that while survivors have higher rates of chronic illness…

While it’s a well-known fact that Jews fleeing the Holocaust settled in all corners of the globe, less well known is what’s happened to these survivors as they’ve grown old in foreign lands. Many survivors fled to Latin America, and it’s the story of one such survivor that’s the focus…

In a nod to New York Fashion Week, meet 88 year old Martin Greenfield, the legendary Brooklyn tailor. Greenfield’s arrival in the US in 1947 was part of the sweep of history: He was liberated from Auschwitz as a 15 year old sole survivor of his family and personally shook…