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Historic Glimpses Unveiling the past, one image at a time. Explore rare and powerful historical photos that bring history back to life.

5 September 1943 | Lviv, Ukraine🕯️ In Honor of Irene Fogel WeissIrene was 13 when she and her family were deported to Au...
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5 September 1943 | Lviv, Ukraine
🕯️ In Honor of Irene Fogel Weiss
Irene was 13 when she and her family were deported to Auschwitz.
A photo taken during her arrival — by N**i guards themselves — was used decades later to confirm her testimony and identify her family members in Holocaust archives.
After the war, she rebuilt her life in the U.S. and became an educator.
“I was in a photograph the world wasn’t supposed to see,” she said.
💔 Her image was taken to erase her. She used it to teach the world.

13 October 1935 | Prague, Czechoslovakia🕯️ The Lantern BoyJakub was small, but he was determined.He helped string colore...
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13 October 1935 | Prague, Czechoslovakia
🕯️ The Lantern Boy
Jakub was small, but he was determined.
He helped string colored paper lanterns across the synagogue courtyard, each one shaped like a Torah scroll.
“Will we dance with the scrolls tomorrow?” he asked.
“Yes,” said the rabbi. “We always will.”
💔 Jakub never saw the next Simchat Torah — but his lanterns were found, still folded, in a synagogue attic.

30 January 1945 | Buchenwald, Germany🕯️ In Honor of Israel “Izzy” ArbeiterIzzy was just 15 when he was sent to Auschwitz...
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30 January 1945 | Buchenwald, Germany
🕯️ In Honor of Israel “Izzy” Arbeiter
Izzy was just 15 when he was sent to Auschwitz.
He survived camp after camp, clinging to the last photograph of his family — hidden in the lining of his coat.
After liberation, he came to the U.S., rebuilt a life, and devoted it to Holocaust education.
In 2021, at 96, he was still speaking to students.
💔 He carried memory not as a burden — but as a gift to the next generation.

5 February 1941 | Antwerp, Belgium🕯️ In Honor of Marcel TuchmanAs a child, Marcel fled from Belgium to France and then t...
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5 February 1941 | Antwerp, Belgium
🕯️ In Honor of Marcel Tuchman
As a child, Marcel fled from Belgium to France and then to the U.S., where he trained as a doctor.
But he never forgot the war.
He later became one of New York’s leading cardiologists — and at age 96, returned to Europe to testify about what he’d survived as a child.
💔 From frightened boy to healing hands.

12 June 1942 | Amsterdam, Netherlands🕯️ In Honor of Etty HillesumThough older than many, Etty’s youth was filled with bo...
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12 June 1942 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
🕯️ In Honor of Etty Hillesum
Though older than many, Etty’s youth was filled with books, music, and introspection.
Deported to Westerbork and later Auschwitz, she kept a diary that recorded her spiritual resistance — choosing dignity, empathy, and inner peace amid horror.
Her writings, published as “An Interrupted Life,” became a testament to the soul’s endurance.
💔 She saw hatred — and responded with compassion.

1 April 1943 | Budapest, Hungary🕯️ In Honor of George BradyGeorge Brady was a teenager when he and his sister Hana were ...
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1 April 1943 | Budapest, Hungary
🕯️ In Honor of George Brady
George Brady was a teenager when he and his sister Hana were deported to Theresienstadt, then to Auschwitz.
He survived; Hana did not. Years later, her suitcase — marked “Hana Brady, Waisenkind (orphan)” — was discovered in a Tokyo museum.
George worked with educators around the world to share his sister’s story, told in the book “Hana’s Suitcase.”
💔 He turned loss into legacy — so no orphan is forgotten.

10 August 1945 | France🕯️ In Honor of David OlèreAs a young French Jew, David Olère was deported to Auschwitz and forced...
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10 August 1945 | France
🕯️ In Honor of David Olère
As a young French Jew, David Olère was deported to Auschwitz and forced to work in the Sonderkommando — the unit forced to dispose of the dead.
He survived and later created some of the only known firsthand drawings of the gas chambers from memory.
His art became crucial visual testimony in postwar trials and museums.
💔 His hand bore witness when no camera could.

9 July 1944 | Hungary🕯️ In Honor of Imre KertészDeported to Auschwitz at age 14, Imre survived Buchenwald and went on to...
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9 July 1944 | Hungary
🕯️ In Honor of Imre Kertész
Deported to Auschwitz at age 14, Imre survived Buchenwald and went on to become Hungary’s greatest postwar writer.
His novel “Fatelessness”, based on his own experiences, explored survival not as victory, but as enduring uncertainty.
In 2002, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Hungarian to do so.
💔 He was stateless in war — and wrote a book that belonged everywhere.

14 May 1938 | Berlin, Germany🕯️ In Honor of Margot FriedländerMargot was a happy, spirited teen before her family was to...
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14 May 1938 | Berlin, Germany
🕯️ In Honor of Margot Friedländer
Margot was a happy, spirited teen before her family was torn apart by deportation.
She went into hiding and was eventually captured and sent to Theresienstadt.
She survived, returned to Berlin in her 80s, and began telling her story to tens of thousands of German students.
She later wrote “Try to Make Your Life”, urging young people to stand against hatred.
💔 She was forced into silence — and chose to come back and speak.

27 November 1937 | Lublin, Poland🕯️ In Honor of Sabina ZimeringSabina was 16 when the N**is occupied her hometown.With f...
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27 November 1937 | Lublin, Poland
🕯️ In Honor of Sabina Zimering
Sabina was 16 when the N**is occupied her hometown.
With forged documents and dyed hair, she passed as a Polish Catholic, working as a nurse’s assistant under false identity.
After the war, she moved to the U.S. and became an ophthalmologist — and decades later, wrote her memoir, “Hiding in the Open.”
💔 She hid to survive. She spoke to heal.

2 October 1940 | Łódź Ghetto, Poland🕯️ In Honor of Henryk RossThough not a child, Henryk was just 29 when he was forced ...
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2 October 1940 | Łódź Ghetto, Poland
🕯️ In Honor of Henryk Ross
Though not a child, Henryk was just 29 when he was forced into the ghetto.
He used his position as a photographer for the Jewish Council to secretly document the truth — hunger, deportations, and moments of joy — burying thousands of negatives underground.
Years later, his recovered photos became one of the most vital visual archives of ghetto life.
💔 He hid history in the soil so it could bloom again.

17 March 1939 | Sighet, Romania🕯️ In Honor of Moshe Ha-ElionBorn in Greece but deported from Hungary, Moshe was a gifted...
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17 March 1939 | Sighet, Romania
🕯️ In Honor of Moshe Ha-Elion
Born in Greece but deported from Hungary, Moshe was a gifted student fluent in multiple languages before he was taken to Auschwitz at 18.
He survived forced labor and death marches, but more miraculously, held onto fragments of ancient Sephardic poetry.
Years later, he translated Homer’s Odyssey into Ladino — a language the N**is tried to erase — preserving it as both memory and defiance.
💔 He brought Homer home in the tongue of exile.

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