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March–April 1944.

1,300 Jewish children taken from the Kaunas Ghetto.

250 orphans seized from French shelters.

All murdered — just for being Jewish.

Some cried for their mothers.

Others whispered prayers.

They were only children. We remember them.

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Yad Vashem

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Holocaust survivor Yitshak Perlmutter was born in Makó, Hungary in 1935.

 He and his family were held in a stadium near Szeged and placed on a train to Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was rerouted to the Mattersdorf concentration camp in Austria. 

After the war, Yitshak made his way to Eretz Israel, where he played a crucial role in the early days of the IDF. In fact, his battalion was placed at Yad Vashem during the Six Day War! 

“I would do anything if I could turn back time and return to the moment when my family was still whole, before the devastation of the Holocaust. Every human being has the opportunity to choose between good and evil. Essentially, it is a question of education. We must educate towards tolerance in the world.  If we can learn to appreciate others, the world can truly be a wonderful place for all." 

-Yitshak Perlmutter: This portrait photo was taken by @martinschoeller as part of the exhibition “Survivors: Faces of Life after the Holocaust.” 

American Society for Yad Vashem

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Fred Lessing was born in 1936 in The Hague, Netherlands. One night in 1942, a friend warned Fred’s parents that their names were on a list of Jews slated for deportation in the coming hours. The family hurriedly left the house with nothing but the clothes on their backs. On the way out, Fred managed to grab his little teddy, “Bear." For the next three years, Fred was hidden in a number of homes with Christian families, always making sure to keep his true identity a secret. During this time, Bear was the only one who accompanied Fred as he moved from house to house; he became his closest friend, his confidante, and source of comfort. 

After the war, Bear remained with Fred and went with him to the United States. Years later, Fred agreed to make Yad Vashem Bear’s new home. He struggled with the idea of sending his little bear so far away. But after careful thought, he called Yad Vashem and said: “I spoke with my bear and I explained to him that, for the first time ever we would have to part. The reason was that he had to carry out a special task – he had to travel to Israel to take part in an exhibition with other toys from the period of the Holocaust and there he would tell our story to the children who came to visit the exhibition.” 

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Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors

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The Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem is one of the most impressive museums you can visit while touring the Holy Land. The story unlike the old museum is not meant to shock the visitors or to traumatize them by showing them a pile of glasses or a heap of human here. On the contrary, it meant for those that need to hear the story for the first time there it meant more to educate and retell the story from the very basic concepts. In this photo you can see the one of the most sacred monuments in Yadvashem - Ohel Yizkor. This is where some ashes of the victims are buried beneath the ground and where all the diplomatic ceremonies are taking place when official delegations come to pay their respects. • • • • • • #israel #yadvashem #jerusalem #holocasut #history #holyland #instagram #picoftheday #travel #travelphotography #jewish #ww2 #museums (at Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSsU_24qIBE/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem is one of the most impressive museums you can visit while touring the Holy Land. The story unlike the old museum is not meant to shock the visitors or to traumatize them by showing them a pile of glasses or a heap of human here. On the contrary, it meant for those that need to hear the story for the first time there it meant more to educate and retell the story from the very basic concepts. In this photo you can see the past gallery in the museum called the Hall of Names where over 4M names of victims who f the Holocaust are kept. • • • • • • #israel #yadvashem #jerusalem #holocasut #history #history #holyland #instagram #picoftheday #travel #travelphotography #jewish #ww2 #museum (at Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSsUluJKcef/?utm_medium=tumblr