As a girl in Budapest, Olga Menczer always looked forward to the fourth night of Hanukkah—when she finally got her turn to light the family menorah. Olga recorded her story of survival with us in 1998 and continued to educate her community in New Jersey for many years. We join Olga in wishing all who are sharing in the light a happy fourth candle.

Holocaust Survivor Solly Ganor, on the December holidays in Kaunus (Kovno), Lithuania.

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 Madame Xia discusses her family's experiences on December 13, 1937, when Japanese forces entered Nanjing, China.

While deployed in France, US armed forces liberator Jules Barrash remembers asking a French farm couple to cook him and a group of about 15 soldiers a dinner for Christmas in exchange for sea rations and food from the army.