Christian Heroines of the Holocaust

As mentioned in Part 1, the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem has a feature called “Avenue of the Righteous Among the Nations.” Here, the museum honors Christians and others who assisted the Jews at the risk of their own lives.

Many people have heard of Oskar Schindler, a Polish businessman who saved 1,000 Jewish people by employing them and falsifying their records, through the Steven Spielberg movie “Schindler’s List.”

Along with Schindler, here are some Christian heroines of the Holocaust who are also honored at Yad Vashem.  Read more... (644 words, 1 image, estimated 2:35 mins reading time)

Auschwitz buildings today. From Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as an annual International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Why Jan. 27? It was on this day in 1945 that the largest World War II concentration camp, Auschwitz, was liberated.

Auschwitz, a network of three camps, was operated in Poland under German occupation from 1940-1945. It probably accounted for the death of over one million Jews. Among other well-known “death camps” were Dachau, Treblinka and Bergen-Belsen.  Read more... (476 words, 2 images, estimated 1:54 mins reading time)