‘Hidden in plain sight’: Child survivor of Holocaust learned her story over time

‘Hidden in plain sight’: Child survivor of Holocaust learned her story over time

For a long time, an 89-year-old child survivor of the Holocaust in Poland didn’t believe her story merited telling. Janet Singer Applefield was “hidden in plain sight,” as her daughter said, for almost four years as Germany’s Nazi Party terrorized Europe in its systematic murder of 6 million Jews during the European Holocaust in the 1930s and 1940s. Antisemitism, the prejudice against or hatred of Jewish people, was a basic principle of the Nazi…

Greeley City Council honors Holocaust survivors with Days of Remembrance

In memory of Holocaust victims and survivors, the Greeley City Council has proclaimed the week of April 6-13 as the Days of Remembrance. The Holocaust was a state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of the European Jewish population by Nazi Germany and its collaborators that took place from 1933-1945. While Jewish and Roma people were the primary victims, with 6 million Jewish people murdered, other groups such as the Polish, peop…

Holocaust Memorial Day report reveals high engagement after ‘tough year’ - The Jewish Chronicle

The organisation also announced its theme for 2026