Resistance

Israel’s national anthem played at Dutch military cemetery as both nations honor fallen troops

The gesture coincided with the Dutch and Israeli memorial day but was meant to honor Jewish resistance fighters, a local rabbi said.

By Cnaan Liphshiz May 4, 2022 12:33 pm

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Frida Wattenberg speaking with her brother, Charles Smiétanski, at the Memorial for the Shoah in Paris, France on Jan. 29, 2019. (Courtesy of the Memorial for the Shoah)

Frida Wattenberg, 95, smuggled Jewish orphans out of Nazi-occupied France

“She was a courageous woman and an indefatigable fighter,” the Memorial for the Shoah wrote in an obituary.

April 6, 2020 4:28 pm

Selma van de Perre singing her book at the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on Jan. 9, 2020. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

At 97, a Dutch resistance hero wants to give fellow Jewish fighters overdue recognition

One of the last living Dutch resistance fighters, Selma van de Perre hopes to counter the false narrative of Jewish passivity during the Holocaust.

January 17, 2020 2:06 pm

Yvette Lundy, French Resistance member who helped Jewish families, dies at 103

By Marcy Oster November 4, 2019 3:40 pm

Ghost writer revisits her own amazing Holocaust survival story in Amsterdam

By Cnaan Liphshiz June 26, 2018 12:20 pm

New Jersey widow donates $22 million to German zoo in memory of her Jewish husband

September 4, 2017 11:50 am

These Young Sibs Resisted Hitler and Paid With Their Heads. Literally.

By Leah Falk

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Monument to non-Jewish Polish resistance fighter unveiled in Warsaw

May 14, 2017 12:52 pm

Incredible Sukkot Photos From Inside the Lodz Ghetto

By Ilana Sichel

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Meet the French Boy Whose Forged Papers Saved 14,000 Jews

By Zachary Solomon

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