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Her Babies Would Die, and No One Knew Why

Rivka and her husband, Arye Leib, were born in Moscow into typical Soviet Jewish families. They knew very little about their Jewish heritage, but neither did

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June 12, 2026 No Comments
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A Childhood Stolen: Helena Swerdlik’s Holocaust Story

Helena Swerdlik, originally Kitenkorn, was born on October 20, 1935, in Lublin, Poland, into a modest Jewish home filled with faith, kindness, and the rhythms of

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June 12, 2026 No Comments
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She Never Imagined a Comment on Chabad.org Would Change Her Life

Rachel Leah Fry was just a child when her mother converted to Christianity. Many decades later, she connected with Rabbi Yosef and Bina Goldwasser, her local Chabad emissaries in Mobile, Alabama, and started

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June 4, 2026 No Comments
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90-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Pays Tribute to His Childhood Hero

Boris Trost, now in his 90s, was born in Ribnitz (Rîbnița), Moldova, then part of the Soviet Union. His father, a shoemaker, worked hard to

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