In 1947, a Hungarian Jewish doctor named Moshe Berner published a slim book in Hungarian. Its title was a bitter prayer: Oh, kiválasztott népem! — Oh, my chosen people! It is a Transylvania Holocaust testimony written with the clinical precision of a physician and the shattered tenderness of a father who lost everything. His wife Ida. Their…
I’d like to call your attention to Selma van de Perre, nee Velleman, a Jewish Dutch resistance fighter and concentration camp survivor who died in October 2025 at the age of 103. She wrote her autobiography to describe her experiences: van de Perre, S. (2021). My name is Selma: The remarkable memoir of a Jewish…
Isaac Askin, (‘Uncle Ike to my family’), was one of the hidden liberators of Dachau. He was a member of ‘Headquarters Battery” 131st AAA Gun Battalion which was the Mobile Anti-Aircraft Unit in World War II. 131st AAA Gun Battalion-mobile anti-aircraft unit Isaac Askin (August 28, 1924-August 28, 2014) Like most returning WWII veterans, my…
A personal depiction of life in Poland, The Pessmist’s Son by Alexander Kimel and Martin Kimel is set against the Nazi and Soviet takeovers of Europe and their cataclysmic aftermaths. The following excerpt from The Pessimist’s Son: A Holocaust Memoir of Hope by Alexander Kimel and Martin Kimel shared only with Remember.org. Copyright 2025 Martin…