Yad Vashem USA Foundation South Florida

06/10/2026

06/10/2026

Paul and Sara Neuwirth, with six of their seven children. Győr, Hungary, prewar. Only three members of the family survived the Holocaust.

On Friday evening, 9 June 1944, the rabbis of the two communities, Neolog Rabbi Emil Roth and Orthodox Rabbi Ben-Zion Snyders, held joint Sabbath prayers for thousands of the Győr ghetto’s Jews. The Germans cut the prayers short, and the next day they beat and abused the two rabbis as well as members of the ghetto’s Jewish Council. By mid-June 1944, approximately 5,000 Jews had been deported from the ghetto to Auschwitz in two major transports. This was part of the larger deportation of Hungarian Jewry between May and July 1944, where they were exterminated.

This family photograph was submitted to Yad Vashem by Chaim Zvi Neuwirth. Chaim Zvi was born in 1924 in Győr, Hungary, to Paul Pesach Neuwirth and Sheindel Sara née Eherenthal. Paul Pesach was a shoemaker who owned a store selling orthopedic shoes. Zvi had six brothers and sisters: Shlomo, Yehudit, Shoshana, Elizabeth, Marta and Margot. Zvi and Shlomo were recruited to forced labor battalions in 1942, and were liberated in Graz, Austria. Shoshana, Yehudit and Elizabeth were deported to Auschwitz. Shoshana survived and was liberated at a factory in Moravia, where she had been sent for forced labor. Yehudit and Elizabeth were murdered. Zvi's parents were deported to Auschwitz together with their two youngest daughters, Marta and Margot, and all four were murdered. After returning to the family home in Győr, Zvi and Shlomo were reunited with Shoshana.

06/05/2026

06/05/2026

06/02/2026

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05/31/2026

Pierre and Arlette Landauer left Paris with their son Francis (b. 1939) when the war broke out. In order to earn a living, Pierre worked as a haberdasher, often trading his skills for basic food at a farm not far from Pau. There he met Pierre Magendie, a saddler, who lived with his wife Louise and their two children, Rosette and Andre (pictured here), in Monein (Pyrénées-Atlantiques).

In 1944, the area grew increasingly dangerous for Jews, and the Landauers decided it would be safer for Francis to go into hiding. Pierre and Louise took the little boy in and introduced him to their neighbors as their nephew.

Francis later recalled a day when he was playing with André, the Magendies’ young son. Suddenly, Pierre grabbed them both and hid them under a pile of leather in his shop, urging them to stay silent. Peering through a small hole, Francis watched as German soldiers moved into the village.

Pierre and Louise never asked for any compensation for their wartime acts, despite the great danger that sheltering the Jewish boy placed themselves and their two young children in. The two families stayed in touch after the war, and remain in contact today.

On 31 May 2010, Yad Vashem recognized Pierre and Louise Magendie as Righteous Among the Nations.

05/22/2026

Mazal Tov to on this incredible milestone! 🎓💙

As part of the first generation of volunteers with us, you represents the future of Holocaust remembrance, education, and moral leadership.

At Yad Vashem USA Foundation South Florida, our volunteers become family. We are here for support, guidance, and community 💙

We are so proud and cannot wait to see all that lies ahead. LeDor VaDor ✨

05/22/2026

Mazal Tov to on this incredible milestone! 🎓💙

As part of the first generation of volunteers with us, you represents the future of Holocaust remembrance, education, and moral leadership.

At Yad Vashem USA Foundation South Florida, our volunteers become family. We are here for support, guidance, and community 💙

We are so proud and cannot wait to see all that lies ahead. LeDor VaDor ✨