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December 5, 2012

Abraham Gerecht Identified

Abraham Gerecht’s picture on the Remember Me? site is the only one he now has from his childhood. His friend Natan Avisar, who told him about the Museum’s project, insists that he looks just the same now as he did when he was a child.

December 3, 2012

Please Join Us in Boca Raton on December 9

Since launching the Remember Me? project in March 2011, we have identified over 350 of the children pictured on our site. We are continuing to find and interview survivors and to write updates for the site. Thanks to all of those who have helped us spread the word about Remember Me? and identify survivors. We are of course especially grateful to the survivors themselves and their families for allowing us to share their stories.

November 27, 2012

Arnold Racine Identified

Arnold Racine did not remember this photograph. His first comment was that he was surprised to see it, but he added, “It was taken more than 60 years ago; at that time, I was able to run faster than nowadays!”

November 13, 2012

Micheline and Victor Suhami Identified

Micheline Suhami remembers the photo from the Remember Me? website being taken at the end of the war, when she was about nine years old. She thinks that it must have been taken on rue de la Roquette; she and her family lived on rue Popincourt.

November 6, 2012

Grazia and Giacomo Sonnino Identified

When Grazia Sonnino saw this picture, memories of the war years came to mind. She was nine years old when German troops entered the old ghetto in Rome. They shot a man right in front of her. She still remembers the shock of seeing his body falling close to her. Until the end of the war, she was constantly running or hiding.

October 16, 2012

Armand Kapkind Identified

Armand Naudin was born in Paris in 1937. His mother was born in Warsaw. Armand never met his biological father, who remained a mystery. He knows that his mother did not have a happy childhood, but knows little else about her past. Armand is an only child.

September 26, 2012

Elvira and Renato Zarfati Identified

Renato Zarfati has lived in Florida since 1967. His sister Elvira moved to Florida with her family 20 years later. Seeing their photographs and talking about their childhood in Rome, Italy, brings back painful memories. Their father, Marco, was deported and killed in Auschwitz. The children and their mother spent the rest of the war hiding. Later, a successful career as a singer brought Renato around the world and, finally, to Miami.

September 18, 2012

Sandro Menasci Identified

A friend of his daughter told Sandro Menasci that there was a picture of him as a child on the Remember Me? website. At first he couldn’t believe it. Then he remembered that his family was forced to move many times during World War II, from one religious institution to another; he believes the photo was taken on one of those occasions. Sandro couldn’t find his sister among the photos, even though they were together all the time. However, he recognized a picture of his cousin Marina Del Monte and remembered that many of his cousins were also hidden inside churches or religious institutions during the Holocaust.

August 14, 2012

Michał Stefaniak Identified

Michał Stefaniak passed away in May 2011. His son, Peter, found his father’s picture on our site a few months later. He sent us the following description that his mother wrote based on her knowledge of her late husband’s wartime experiences.

July 31, 2012

Remembering the Vel’ D’Hiv Roundup

French President François Hollande recently spoke in Paris commemorating the 70th anniversary of what is known as the “Vel’ d’Hiv roundup”—two days when about 13,000 Jews were arrested in Paris and taken to the Vélodrome d’Hiver, an indoor cycling stadium. There they spent several days in horrendous sanitary conditions before being separated from their families, transported to internment camps, and shipped east to concentration camps and killing centers.

July 17, 2012

Jeanne Altman Identified

In March 2011, shortly after the Remember Me? project went online, Berta Gardon, a Holocaust survivor now living in Michigan, visited the site. She was struck by one photograph in particular, of Jeanne Altman, and wrote asking for more information. Berta told us that she believed that Jeanne was her cousin. She had never forgotten her face.

June 26, 2012

Enrica Amati Identified

Enrica Amati was born in Rome on September 18, 1935. In this picture, she is about ten years old. She has no recollection of the photo being taken and would very much like to know where it was taken and by whom. She first saw the photograph when a friend showed it to her and couldn’t understand where it came from or how it came to be in the Museum’s possession. She felt a deep anguish because it brought back memories of a very painful period of her life.

June 12, 2012

Cesare, Giacomo, and Mosé Di Veroli Identified

Giacomo Di Veroli (pictured here) remembers this photograph well. It was taken in the Franca Muggia home, which welcomed displaced and orphaned children after the war. Giacomo has good memories of the years he spent there, and only nice words for the teachers and educators. His brother Cesare and his cousin Mosé were his closest friends, but he remembers that all the children were very kind and they became like a family to him.

May 30, 2012

Updates Posted about over 100 Survivors!

Today is a major milestone for the Remember Me? project. We have now posted updates about more than 100 of the Remember Me? children! Jean Wasersztrum, whose profile we are posting today, is the 101^st survivor to be the subject of an update on the Remember Me? site.

May 20, 2012

Watch Video of Webby Awards Ceremony Honoring Remember Me?

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May 10, 2012

Henri Gotainer Identified

Henri Gotainer was born on March 9, 1931, in the Hôpital Rothschild in the 12^tharrondissement of Paris. His parents came from Poland and were stateless since they had never obtained French citizenship. Henri became a French citizen on March 15, 1937. His mother, Sarah Warech, was born on July 24, 1910, in Lodz, but her family was originally from Zaklików. Sarah was an apprentice seamstress. Henri’s father, Chaïa (Charles) Gotainer, was born in April 1907 in Brzeznica or Nowo-Radom. He was a shoemaker. In France he opened a shoe factory and imported used shoes from America that he repaired. Later, he worked as a stall-keeper until the war broke out. Sarah’s family arrived in France in 1925. Her parents, Joseph and Brandla Warech, spoke Yiddish and were very observant. Henri’s parents met in Denain in the north of France. They at first had a religious marriage. Later, on July 20, 1935, they had a civil marriage under French law. Sarah gave birth to a stillborn child, and when she became pregnant with Henri, she decided to go to Paris.

May 8, 2012

Frédéric Flechner Identified

Dr. Frédéric Flechner was born in France in 1938. His father was born in Poland and had immigrated to Turkey where he met Frédéric’s mother in Istanbul. In 1935, they got married and immigrated to France. The Flechner family lived in Paris, and Frédéric’s father, who was stateless, was a travelling salesman dealing in chemicals.

May 2, 2012

Josef Lichtenstajn Identified

Joseph Lichtenstein’s picture was taken at Kloster Indersdorf in September 1945. He comments on the contrast between how he looked at liberation and how he looked in the photo. “From April to September,” he says, “I must have put on quite a bit of weight. A good wind would have blown me away.” After liberation, he tells us, “We never stopped eating.” Describing his time in the camps, he tells us, “It’s a sad situation when you see a father and son fighting over a piece of bread.” The intense hunger that survivors like Joseph experienced during the Holocaust continued to haunt them after the war had ended. When Joseph flew from Germany to Scotland after the war, he and the other boys were given bread. Everyone put the bread in their pockets because they did not know if they would have anything to eat the next day. Joseph believes that he survived thanks to the blessing given him by a rabbi sometime before his family was deported to Auschwitz.

May 1, 2012

Remember Me? Wins Two Webby Awards

We are pleased to announce that Remember Me? has won two Webby Awards for the best cultural institution website. The site won both the "people's voice" award voted for by the public and the award selected by a panel of judges.

April 30, 2012

Meet Anna Andlauer, Historian of Kloster Indersdorf and Friend to Child Survivors

Anna Andlauer spent over 15 years as a volunteer guide at the Dachau Memorial Site. During that time, she was in contact with many survivors from the camp and interviewed several for stories in local newspapers. She had never given much thought to the survivors’ lives after liberation until she met Michael Walter, a child survivor who had spent time at Kloster Indersdorf.

April 25, 2012

Pierrette, Maxime, and Nadia Szonek Identified

Born in 1934, Pierrette Szonek was ten years old when this photo was taken in 1944. She had three siblings: Annette (Nénette), born in 1924; Maxime, born in 1937; and Nadia, born in 1941. All four of them survived the Holocaust.

April 23, 2012

Renato, Salvatore, and Vittorio Sermoneta Identified

Renato Sermoneta remembers well when this picture was taken. He has a vivid memory of going to a photography studio in Trastevere with his twin brother, Salvatore; his older brother, Vittorio; and his cousins. The war was over and the kids were back at school. Still, nothing was as before the war: His father had been killed by the SS in the infamous Ardeatine Caves massacre, one of 335 people murdered in a reprisal action for a bomb placed by the Italian resistance against the Nazi occupation.

April 18, 2012

Remember Me? Nominated for Two Webby Awards

You can help Remember Me? win two Webby People's Voice Awards by voting for it in the "Cultural Institutions" and "Best Use of Photography" categories.

April 11, 2012

Naftali Sztajnberg Identified

Blima Lorber came across Naftaly Sztajnberg’s photograph on the Remember Me? website. Naftaly says that the picture was taken at Indersdorf, Germany, in October 1945. He has a copy of this photo and recently donated it to the Holocaust museum in Curitiba, Brazil, where he now lives. Upon learning of the Remember Me? project, he immediately told Blima his personal history so that she could share it with us.

April 3, 2012

Rosa Czerniak Identified

Rosalind Goldenberg first learned of her picture on the Remember Me? website from a friend of hers who had also been a hidden child. She had never seen the picture before, and she thought at first that perhaps someone from her family had survived the Holocaust and was looking for her. She knows that the picture was taken in Belgium but doesn’t know much more than that.

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