Gesher L’Europa

When the Gestapo knocked on 12-year-old Lilli Tauber’s door in November of 1938, her life was forever changed.

The inferno that decimated Thessalonica left 70,000 people, including 52,000 Jews, homeless and penniless.

Were the ancient headstones sold or stolen and who was responsible for their disappearance?

Menasseh Ben Israel, known as the “Ambassador of the Jews,” managed to convince the English that the readmission of the Jews to England would bring about Redemption.

In 1930s Europe, as evil parties were gaining traction in Bulgaria, the Jews managed – in one famous case – a victory of justice over hatred.

Roza Bahar and her sister Matilda were willing to try anything to escape the Nazis but in the end, it was their fake IDs that led to their deaths.

Miksa Domonkos, a Hungarian war hero who saved countless lives in the Budapest Ghetto during the Holocaust, was tortured to death under false pretenses.

Living in a cold climate in Central Europe sometimes meant going to great lengths to get the citrus fruit required to celebrate the holiday of Sukkot.

The Worms Mahzor, written in the late 13th century, was spared the destruction of the Holocaust after it was smuggled away from the Gestapo and hidden in one of the city’s cathedral towers.