Sala and Aron Samueli Holocaust Memorial Library Represented in Exhibit
“Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away” at Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City
Auschwitz
Yom Kippur in Auschwitz: 70 Years Ago
Seventy years ago, on Yom Kippur, September 27, 1944, the Jews of Auschwitz debated whether or not to fast. They were, after all, starving, each of them near death. Among the prisoners was a teenager just three days shy of his 16th birthday.