An Austrian-Jewish survivor shows Dwight D. Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, and George Patton a mass grave in the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp on April 12, 1945.

»Wir mussten handeln, um Leben zu retten.« – Gilberto Bosques war mexikanischer Generalkonsul in Marseille. Er stellte Tausende Visa für Verfolgte aus – darunter viele Jüdinnen und Juden – und organisierte ihre Flucht vor der Deportation. Er gilt als »Gerechter unter den Völkern«

Remembering Brian Piccolo died on this date June 16 in 1970. Photo: Chicago Bears. #OTD #SportsGuterman 🏈

Congratulations to Michigan State hockey alum Rod Brind’Amour and the Carolina Hurricanes on winning the 2026 Stanley Cup! Brind’Amour becomes the 7th person in NHL history to win a Stanley Cup championship for the same organization as both a player and head coach. He captained Carolina to the 2006 Stanley Cup championship, and now wins one as head coach of the Hurricanes in 2026!

We are saddened by the passing of Holocaust survivor Sultana Razon Veronesi at the age of 94. Born in Milan to a Sephardic Jewish family of Turkish origin, she survived the racial laws and deportation to Bergen-Belsen. After the war, she rebuilt her life, becoming a respected pediatrician and dedicating decades to educating younger generations about the Holocaust and the dangers of hatred and antisemitism. Awarded Milan’s highest civic honor in 2019, Sultana Razon Veronesi leaves behind a legacy of resilience, service and remembrance. Her testimony helped ensure that the voices of survivors would continue to be heard long after the events they endured. May her memory be a blessing.

Thérèse Eilenberg was a French-Jewish girl who was born in Paris on the 9th of January 1934 to Sura and Abraham Eilenberg. She was killed in Auschwitz on the 27th of August 1942 with her parents, 12 year old sister Berthe and 3 year old brother Izaac. She was 8 years old Remember Thérèse Eilenberg. Peace be upon her✡ 🙏💔

15 June 1880 | Czech Jewish woman, Marianne Bondyová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 15 May 1944. She did not survive.

On June 14, 1777 the Continental Congress passed a resolution stating: “Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.” Happy Flag Day.

Isaac Frank | Died Sobibor, 11 June 1943 1935 – 1943 Isaac Frank was 8 years old, born in 1935 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He was the oldest son of the Frank cousins — brother to David, Levi, Rebecca, Sara, Esther, Hannah, and Mozes. His family lived near the Maas river until the bombing of Rotterdam in 1940. After the occupation, Isaac was forced to wear the yellow star from age 6. In 1941 he was expelled from school and sent to a Jewish school that met in a synagogue basement. He loved drawing ships and wanted to be a sailor. In 1942 his father was deported to Amersfoort for forced labor. Isaac helped his mother trade bread coupons and care for his six younger siblings. In early 1943 the Franks were arrested and sent to Kamp Vught. Isaac was placed in the boys' barracks, where at 8 he tried to keep his little brothers calm at night. On 6 June 1943 he was sent to Westerbork. On 8 June 1943 he was deported to Sobibor. He arrived on 11 June after a three-day journey with no food, no water, and no toilet. Murdered on arrival, Isaac was killed at age 8 with his six siblings and cousins. Seven Frank children were murdered together. We remember Isaac Frank.💔🙏

Anna Glinberg was born into a Ukrainian-Jewish family in 1932. Not much is known about Anna’s short life. She was brutally murdered at the Babi Yar massacre sometime in September 1941. Anna was 9 My their memory live on ✡️ Anna Glinberg 1932-1941💔🙏

Jalen Brunson joins Quinn Buckner as the only players to win an Illinois state title (Stevenson 2015), NCAA title (Villanova 2016, 2018) and NBA title. Buckner won with Thornridge (1971, 1972); Indiana (1976); and the Celtics (1984). He also won an Olympic gold medal (USA, 1976).

In 1957, Mantle reached base 319 times in 144 games. That's 2.22 times per game. If you attended a game, you were more likely than not to see him on base multiple times.

Sara Frank | Died Sobibor, 11 June 1943 1937 – 1943 Sara Frank was 6 years old, born in 1937 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. She was part of the Frank cousins — sister to Isaac, David, Levi, Rebecca, Esther, Hannah, and Mozes. She was the fourth of seven children. After the occupation, Sara was only 3. From age 4 she wore the yellow star. In 1941 she was banned from school because she was Jewish. Her mother taught her to read at home. She loved dolls and helping her mother in the kitchen. In early 1943 the Franks were arrested during a house raid and sent to Kamp Vught. Sara was placed in the girls' children's barracks. On 6 June 1943 she was loaded onto the children's transport to Westerbork. On 8 June she was deported to Sobibor. She arrived on 11 June 1943 after 72 hours without water in a cattle car. Murdered on arrival in the gas chambers, Sara was killed at age 6 with her six siblings and cousins. Seven Frank children died together. We remember Sara Frank.💔🙏

Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian who once fought for Franco, renounced Fascism and became a hero of the Holocaust. In 1944 Budapest, he posed as a Spanish diplomat and single-handedly saved over 5,000 Hungarian Jews by issuing false passports and providing shelter.

She was twenty-four years old, four months pregnant, and sitting at a yellow Formica table in a small house in Mount Vernon, New York. It was 1951. She had $2,000 in wedding gift money. And she was about to do something no woman in her world had ever done. Her name was Lillian Menasche, and she had already survived more than most people ever will. She was born in Leipzig, Germany, in 1927, into a warm, prosperous Jewish family — dinner parties, laughter, a father with a successful business. Then the Nazis came to power, and everything her family had built was taken from them. Their home was confiscated. Her brother was beaten in the street. The family packed what they could carry and fled — first to Amsterdam, then across the ocean to New York City. Lillian was ten years old. She arrived in a new country with a new language and no roadmap. She grew up, attended NYU, married, moved to Westchester. Her brother Fred, who had found his own footing in America, enlisted in the U.S. Army. He was killed at Normandy in 1944. Grief, for some people, closes doors. For Lillian, it seems to have opened them. She looked at that $2,000 on the kitchen table and made a decision — not an impulsive one, but a calculated one. She would spend $495, nearly a quarter of everything she had, on a single advertisement in Seventeen magazine. The ad offered personalized, monogrammed leather handbags for $2.99 and matching belts for $1.99. Her father, now in the leather goods business in America, would manufacture them. She would hand-emboss every monogram, pack every order, and type every mailing label herself — two fingers on the keys. She had thought it through carefully. She understood what women were buying. She understood that a personalized product offered something a generic one never could. She understood the price point. This wasn't a gamble — it was a calculated bet made by a woman who had learned, young and at enormous cost, that quiet preparation and real courage are the very same thing. The orders came back. Thirty-two thousand dollars' worth. She kept going. Handbags became a catalog. The catalog became a direct-mail company. She named it by taking Vernon from Mount Vernon and keeping Lillian for herself — a small, permanent signature on everything she built. Through decades of work, through the particular difficulty of running a business while raising children in an era that rarely celebrated a woman doing either, she kept building. She made decisions that worked and decisions that didn't, and she always went back to the catalog. In 1987 — thirty-six years after that first kitchen-table ad — the Lillian Vernon Corporation went public on the American Stock Exchange, making her the first woman to found and take public a company on that exchange. At its peak, her company generated nearly $300 million in annual revenue. Millions of American households received that catalog. Millions of personalized orders went out — the same instinct from the kitchen table, now filling warehouses across three states. She sold the company in 2003. She was seventy-six years old. She died in Manhattan in December 2015, at eighty-eight. That yellow Formica kitchen table — the one where she made the decision — is now in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution. A refugee girl from Leipzig. A young pregnant woman with $2,000 and a clear-eyed idea. The first woman to found and take public a company on the American Stock Exchange. She had arrived in America with almost nothing, except the belief that this country deserved her absolute best. She spent the next seventy-eight years proving she was right.

At funeral after Medgar Evers assassination, widow Myrlie consoles son Darrell, this week 1963:

We're remembering Staff Sgt. Amy C. Tirador, today, a brave soldier from Albany, NY, who made the ultimate sacrifice while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. On November 4, 2009, she was killed in action in Iraq at just 29 years old. Amy was a dedicated member of the 209th Military Intelligence Company, earning a Bronze Star for her service. Gone but never forgotten-heroes like Amy remind us of the true cost of freedom.

PVT Lewis Lanning died while a Prisoner of the Japanese on June 10, 1942 in Manila, Philippines, he was 21 years old… Born in Detroit, Michigan to Otto & Mae Lanning on January 4, 1921, Lewis H Lanning had two sisters and a brother. A 2nd older brother passed away as a toddler. Lewis enlisted in the Army on February 5, 1941 and after training was sent to the Philippines and assigned to A Company, 31st Infantry Division stationed in Manila. When the Japanese invaded the Philippines, they were initially sent to Corregidor, then were sent to Bataan at the end of December 1941. On Bataan the 31st Infantry Division was involved in fierce fighting. After four months of combat with insufficient food and many suffering from illness, they were surrendered to the Japanese on April 9, 1942. The survivors including PVT Lanning were forced to participate in the Bataan Death March and ended up at Camp O’Donnell. PVT Lanning was suffering from malaria when he was transferred to the prison hospital (formerly the navy hospital) at Bilibid Prison in Manila on June 5, 1941. Five days later on June 10, 1942, PVT Lewis Lanning died there and was buried at the Bilibid Prison cemetery. Postwar his remains were recovered and buried at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in Manila, Philippines - Plot B Row 15 Grave 150. Older brother Ralph Duane Lanning served in the Army during WW2, he passed away at the age of 61 in 1977. Younger sister Pauline Lucille Lanning Brown was a "Rosie the Riveter" at a factory in Grand Rapids during WW2, she passed away at the age of 95 in 2017. Thanks Tyler Godfrey for the picture restoration

12 June 1929. Anne Frank was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She was the most famous Jewish victim of the Holocaust due to the posthumous publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, in which she documents her life in hiding in Amsterdam from 1942 to 1944.

Tomorrow, June 12, 2026, marks what would have been Anne Frank's 97th birthday. Anne was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, and spent two years in hiding with her family in the secret annex behind her father Otto's office in Amsterdam, until they were discovered and deported in August 1944. She did not survive. She perished at Bergen-Belsen in 1945, just weeks before liberation. Yet the diary she kept in hiding, recovered by Miep Gies and published by her father, the sole survivor of the annex, became one of the most widely read books in human history, translated into over 70 languages. In her own words: "Despite everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart." We remember her today and every day for her extraordinary story and even more so for who she was at heart. A girl who deserved a full life. We honor her memory by refusing to look away. #ClaimsConference_Partner #HistoriesAndMysteries #CJH BMF_Partner