While the Haganah itself operated before the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the origins of the IDF can be traced back more ...

Werner Reich, Who Learned Magic in Auschwitz, Dies at 94 He was 16 when a fellow inmate, a magician, taught him a card trick in the barracks of the extermination camp. He called it a “miracle.” ...

HAIFA, Israel — Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on Nov. 3, 1944. He was 12 years old. SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle ...

Hila Weisz-Gut's grandmother survived Auschwitz. In 2023, Weisz-Gut moved to the town where the concentration camp is located.

In November, 1942, my parents and I were deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp but our final destination was Auschwitz. We were placed in the section called the Czech Family Camp.

HAIFA, Israel — Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on Nov. 3, 1944. He was 12 years old. SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle ...

HAIFA, Israel -- Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on Nov. 3, 1944. He was 12 years old.

HAIFA, Israel — Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on Nov. 3, 1944. He was 12 years old. SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle ...