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A heartwarming viral moment a man found out the children he helped escape the Holocaust were surrounding him led to a film being made about his life

College of Charleston Joe Engel was and remains an icon in Charleston, South Carolina. Born in Zakroczym, Poland, he survived Auschwitz and several other concentration camps and fought with the resistance before landing on American shores as a refugee in 1949.

In Tuesday’s episode, historian and “Finding Your Roots” host Henry Louis Gates Jr. presents Caplan, 43, with genealogical information about her mother Barbara’s ancestors. Barbara died of cancer when Caplan was 13. The episode, titled “The Road We Took,” also explores the family history of Pakistani-American comedian Hasan Minhaj.

Sir Nicholas Winton is personally credited with saving no fewer than 669 children from certain death at the hands of the Nazis, but his story went until for four decades.

On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, it’s timely to reflect on how the liberation of the camps was reported at the time – and how it changed journalism.

It is a living proof that life continues,’ the reunited family members of Holocaust survivors and victims told The Independent

Conducted Oct. 25 to Nov. 6, the online survey of 1,000 Irish adults also found that 8% of people in Ireland believe the Holocaust is a myth and did not happen, while 17% believe the number of

Local resident Jordan Engle tells the story of his grandmother, Dr. Edith Eva Eger, a Holocaust survivor, who went on to help others cope with overwhelming trauma