By Jonathon Van Maren After surviving six Nazi concentration camps and the Warsaw Ghetto, it is a miracle that Pinchas Gutter has lived to become 86 years old. Born in 1932 in Lodz, Poland, just a few years before the Reich that would murder millions of his people sent their servants tromping across the border…
By Jonathon Van Maren On May 17, 1934, a beautiful little girl was born to Jewish parents in Berlin. Jacob and Pauline Levinsons, both talented professional singers, called her Hessy, and they were tremendously proud of her—despite the fact that Jewish babies were not particularly welcome in Germany at the time. A year later, the…
By Jonathon Van Maren On March 27, CNN reported that an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor named Mireille Knoll was stabbed to death in her Paris apartment, which was then set on fire—officials believe the attack was motivated by anti-Semitism. As a ten-year-old girl, Knoll evaded the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in 1942 that resulted in the Nazi-directed…
By Jonathon Van Maren Gavin McInnes is not a Holocaust-denier, and he is not a neo-Nazi. It’s necessary to make clarifying statements like that due to a video released a couple of days ago, which rapidly attracted the attention and approval of alt-right neo-Nazis such as David Duke and Richard Spencer, which resulted in McInnes…
Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter joins Jonathon Van Maren to tell his story. Pinchas lived through the Warsaw Ghetto, witnessed the Warsaw Uprising, and survived five concentration camps.
By Jonathon Van Maren This week marks the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the sprawling Nazi death camp tucked into the Polish countryside near a nondescript village called Oświęcim. The very name now carries with it a weighty darkness, as if the millions of souls sent off in excruciating horror to eternity somehow…
Jonathon Van Maren speaks with with Lord George Weidenfeld of the British House of Lords, and Steve Maman of the Liberation of Christian and Yazidi Children of Iraq. Lord Weidenfeld, a Holocaust survivor, shares how a conversation with Pope John Paul II and a long-standing debt of gratitude to Christians spurred him to act. Steve…
In the fifth installment of our series on Operation Rescue, Jonathon Van Maren speaks with two Rescue veterans, Jeff White and Cheryl Conrad.
Jeannie Smith is a Holocaust lecturer and daughter of the Holocaust Rescuer Irene Opdyke. She joined Jonathon to discuss her mother’s life and legacy.
Barbara Winton is the daughter of Holocaust Rescuer Sir Nicholas Winton author of the book “It’s Not Impossible: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton.” She joined Jonathon to discuss her father’s life and legacy.
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