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On Jan. 8, 2014, the skull of a child was found in a drainage canal in a crop field in Sharkey County, Mississippi.
Forensic testing suggests he was born between 2000 and 2004 and likely died between 2007 and 2012. He is believed to have been 5 to 7 years old.
DNA testing confirmed he is an African American male and indicates he may have relatives from the same area of Mississippi where he was found.
Please help us give this child his name back. If you have any information, call NCMEC at 1-800-THE-LOST. Poster: https://t.co/xOlofWmxNi
16 March 1942 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Nora Kohn, was born in Marosvasarhely.
In May 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz, where she was murdered in a gas chamber.
Shoes that belonged to victims of Auschwitz.
Each one represents one person, one life, and one tragic story.
Each one we need to preserve.
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(Photo: https://t.co/vo3xO8SbmV)
With great sadness, we received the news of the passing of Wanda Folman (née Rein), an Auschwitz survivor.
Wanda was born in 1923 in a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland. Her father, Maurycy-Artur, passed away in 1936. Her mother, Stella, was a teacher and a school principal. Wanda had a younger sister, Marta.
During the German occupiation Stella and her daughters were forced to move into the ghetto. On 17 August 1944, during the period of the liquidation of the ghetto, Wanda married her fellow collective member, Mordechai Folman, in the hope that they would be able to continue to live together as a married couple after the deportation. Their wedding was the last to take place in the Litzmannstadt ghetto.
On 27 August 1944, Stella, Marta, Wanda, together with Mordechai and his mother, Ita-Leah, were deported to Auschwitz. The two elderly women, Stella and Ita-Leah, were murdered in the gas chambers on arrival after the selection. Marta, Wanda, and Mordechai were registered in the camp.
Several weeks after their arrival at Auschwitz, Marta was murdered in a gas chamber. In late October 1944, Wanda was transferred to a forced labor camp in the Sudetenland, and survived the war.
One year after they were separated at Auschwitz, Wanda and Mordechai Folman were reunited. In 1950, they moved to Israel.
Wanda Folman passed away on 13 February 2026. She was 102 years old.
(Photos: Yad Vashem)
12 October 1920 | Italian Jewish woman Virginia Montalcini was born in Turin.
On 30 January 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. After the selection she was murdered in a gas chamber.
Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan saved 165 lives in the Texas flash floods.
The 26-year-old, a former KPMG accountant, directed Army Blackhawk 60s and MH-65s to survivors and helped get them to safety, according to the New York Post.
“Ruskan spearheaded a high-risk rescue mission under the worst possible environmental conditions, which in the end saw 165 brought to safety,” the NYP reported.
“I’m just doing a job,” he told the NYP.
“This is what I signed up for, and I think that any single Coast Guard rescue swimmer or any single Coast Guard pilot, flight mechanic, whoever it may be, would have done the exact same thing in our situation.”
“That’s what we were asked to do and we’re gonna do it. Any one of us, if anyone else was on duty that day, they would have done the same thing as us.”
“We just happened to be the crew that got the case.”
12 June 1929 | A German Jewish girl, Anne Frank, was born in Frankfurt.
In 1942 on her 13th birthday she received an empty diary. She perished in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
'Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character & goodness.' (A.Frank)