November 22, 2007
Holocaust Award
Hendrick and Kees Scheffer lived in Holland and kept a Jewish couple hidden from the Nazis for two years. The couple have passed away. Their daughter, Henny Scheffer of Nanton, will accept an award from The Calgary Jewish Community in their honour. Ruth Tennenholtz has come to Calgary from Israel to attend the ceremony. It was Ruth’s late parents who were saved by the Scheffers.
November 22, 2007
Holocaust Award
Hendrick and Kees Scheffer lived in Holland and kept a Jewish couple hidden from the Nazis for two years. The couple have passed away. Their daughter, Henny Scheffer of Nanton, will accept an award from The Calgary Jewish Community in their honour. Ruth Tennenholtz has come to Calgary from Israel to attend the ceremony. It was Ruth’s late parents who were saved by the Scheffers.
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Brought Together by the Holocaust and N.Y.
By TATYANA GERSHKOVICH
Special to the Sun
November 23, 2007
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
A D V E R T I S E M E N T
A Holocaust survivor on Friday is reuniting with the deaf-mute woman whose family saved her life during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
Golda Bushkanietz, 94, and Irena Walulewicz, 82, who hid Ms. Bushkanietz for six months during World War II, are traveling from Tel Aviv, Israel, and Olsztyn, Poland, respectively, to meet for the first time in 62 years at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
“I am thrilled to see Irena. Her family was part of the intelligentsia in my town. I was a good friend of her parents, and her mother, a very sweet woman, saved me,” Ms. Bushkanietz said in a phone interview. “I often think about Irena, and I have told all of my grandchildren about how I stayed with the family.”
Holocaust Survivors, Heirs Fight On for Compensation
Though Germany Long Ago Satisfied Most Claims, Many Remain
By Craig Whitlock and Shannon Smiley
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, November 25, 2007; Page A16
TELTOW, Germany — Six decades after the end of World War II, tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors and their heirs are still struggling to receive compensation or the return of looted property from Germany.
More than 76,000 claims filed by Jewish families and other Nazi-era victims who had owned property in the former East Germany remain unresolved. About 60,000 Jews who applied for special pensions payable to people the Nazis forced to work for subsistence wages in ghettos were turned down. And owners of stolen artwork complain that efforts to find their collections have been stonewalled by German museums, despite a 1999 pledge to clear up the issue.
(Media-Newswire.com) – WASHINGTON, D.C. — The world’s largest collection of visual Holocaust survivor and witness testimonies is now available to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum visitors. The University of Southern California ( USC ) Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive contains nearly 52,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses from 56 nations and in 32 languages. More than 90 percent of the collection is comprised of testimonies of Jewish survivors; however, other victims of Nazism—political prisoners, Sinti and Roma ( Gypsies ), homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and survivors of eugenics policies—as well as liberators, liberation witnesses, and rescuers and aid providers are also represented in the collection.
“The power and authenticity of survivors’ testimony is our most effective tool in transmitting the history of the Holocaust to future generations,” says Museum Director Sara J. Bloomfield. “Making the Shoah Foundation collection, in addition to the Museum’s oral histories, available to visitors will greatly enhance our ability to educate millions of people worldwide about the lessons of the Holocaust.”