Please let students know they can register for the Holocaust Remembrance Scholarship by March 15th, to Remember, Reconcile, and Take a Stand against prejudice, indifference, and genocide, as we honor and give voice…
GOOD NEWS! The travelers' list is nearly full for the once in a lifetime special celebration of Israel’s 70th birthday! Now's the time to join us, we have 15 seats left on our…
Over 1150 people at March of Remembrance events in Houston, Kingwood, and at Lone Star College April 20-23 heard Holocaust survivors share riveting accounts of how they were rescued from certain death. Rosian Zerner and Dr. Zsuzsanna Ozsvath related dramatic tales of heroism on the part of ordinary people who dared to risk their lives to rescue Jews. After harrowing experiences fraught with the constant threat of exposure and capture by the Nazis, both ultimately managed to emigrate from Europe to America, where they refused to allow trauma and persecution to hinder them; they both became educated, accomplished individuals.
The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state…
Copyright © United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC GHETTO DESTROYED, UPRISING ENDS After a month of fighting, the Germans blow up the Great Synagogue in Warsaw, signaling the end…
Copyright © United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC GERMANS ENCOUNTER RESISTANCE The Germans renew deportations from the Warsaw ghetto. This time however, they encounter resistance from the ZOB (Jewish…
JEWISH FIGHTING ORGANIZATION ESTABLISHED In the midst of the first wave of deportations from Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center, the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB, Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa) is…
[copied from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website, ushmm.org] Many Jews in ghettos across eastern Europe tried to organize resistance against the Germans and to arm themselves with smuggled…
Saturday, April 22nd and Sunday, April 23rd, March of Remembrance Houston is to hold remembrance ceremonies honoring heroes and survivors of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution. Between Mrs. Rosian Zerner, a Holocaust Survivor from Lithuania where about ninety-five percent of the Jewish population was murdered; Dr. Zsusanna Osvath, who experienced the ghetto in Budapest as a seven-year-old girl; and Mrs. Bärbel Pfeiffer, whose grandfather helped install the gas chambers at Auschwitz; this year’s event promises to be impactful during such a time as this. We are also eagerly expecting the participation of Texas A&M University at Galveston who will be sending Honor Guard, Color Guard and Maroon Coat volunteers. Across the greater Houston area, communities will come together Saturday, April 22nd and Sunday, April 23rd to take part in the nationwide effort to honor survivors of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution.