Fiona Gold Kroll » auschwitz http://fionagoldkroll.com Welcome! Fri, 05 Dec 2014 23:02:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 Justice: France agrees Holocaust SNCF rail payout with US http://fionagoldkroll.com/justice/ http://fionagoldkroll.com/justice/#comments Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:35:27 +0000 http://fionagoldkroll.com/?p=507   Today, justice was served. The U.S., government and the State of France announced a compensation package from the SNCF – the French national railway – for their role in deporting 76,000 Jews from France during WW11. Better still, there will be an official apology from the company. The agreement, to be officially signed in […]

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]]> http://fionagoldkroll.com/justice/feed/ 0 The Last Mezuzah Traces in Kazimierz Krakow, Poland. http://fionagoldkroll.com/the-last-mezuzah-traces-in-kazimierz-krakow-poland/ http://fionagoldkroll.com/the-last-mezuzah-traces-in-kazimierz-krakow-poland/#comments Fri, 06 Sep 2013 19:40:33 +0000 http://fionagoldkroll.com/?p=220 With the intense, commercial refurbishment of Kazimierz in Krakow, the last traces of Mezuzot  are disappearing fast … too fast. The visible recesses on stone door frames are still visible, though some have been filled in. In some cases, two nail holes are barely visible on wooden door frames where a Mezuzah once hung. A […]

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]]> http://fionagoldkroll.com/116/feed/ 1 A Stone For Benjamin http://fionagoldkroll.com/a-stone-for-benjamin/ http://fionagoldkroll.com/a-stone-for-benjamin/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 18:55:08 +0000 http://fionagoldkroll.com/?p=21 A Stone for Benjamin is the compelling story of my quest to discover the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of my grandmother’s brother, Benjamin, who lived in Paris during WWII. With no more than his name, old photographs and family stories from the past, I traveled to France, Poland and Israel, determined to uncover the truth […]

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