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.

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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.

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.

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

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Ghost writer revisits her own amazing Holocaust survival story in Amsterdam

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

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

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Monument to non-Jewish Polish resistance fighter unveiled in Warsaw

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Incredible Sukkot Photos From Inside the Lodz Ghetto

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

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