The Last Ones: Best Holocaust Education Initiative in the U.S. of 2025

At Best of Best Review, we are proud to recognize The Last Ones (TLO) as the Best Holocaust Education Initiative in the U.S. of 2025. In a year when the number of living Holocaust survivors is dwindling rapidly, The Last Ones has become a vital lifeline…

The Last Ones: A Living Archive of Truth, Memory, and Resistance

The clock is ticking. Only about 245,000 Holocaust survivors remain alive today, and with each passing day, that number dwindles. The time when no one who endured the horrific tragedy will be here to tell firsthand what it was like to survive is fast approaching. Alarmingly, something dangerous threatens to grow in that silence.

Before the Silence Falls: How 'The Last Ones' Is Preserving Holocaust Memory for a New Generation | IBTimes - International Business Times

The Last Ones is a movement—one that meets history where it lives: in the hearts and words of the survivors who are still here, and in the eyes of the next generation who must carry their memory

The Last Ones: A Living Archive of Truth, Memory, and Resistance - MSN

The erosion of historical memory opens the door for denial, distortion, and a new generation unanchored from the lessons of humanity’s darkest hours. The Last Ones, a global storytelling…

Journalist is racing to record the stories of last Holocaust survivors | WLRN

Leslie Gelrubin Benitah’s multimedia project aims to connect the last remaining Holocaust survivors with younger generations. What sets ‘The Last Ones’ apart from other testimonies is brevity: the …

Geolocated app connects Auschwitz visitors with survivors’ testimonies on horrors in camp

Titled The Last Ones, the application utilizes short interviews with Holocaust survivors to illuminate Nazi murders and torments — at camps and throughout Europe…

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Miami-Dade students hear harrowing stories of survival

Holocaust survivor Allan Hall shares personal stories about his and his family’s experience during the Holocaust with 7th and 8th Ransom Everglades students…

THE LAST ONES OF AUSCHWITZ

Filmed over the course of seven years, the project traveled the globe to document over 200 survivor testimonies in four languages, including more than 30 from Auschwitz survivors. This ensemble film brings together these personal accounts…

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Fara Sax interviews Filmmaker Leslie Benitah

Fara Sax welcomes Filmmaker Leslie Benitah whose two films screen at The Miami Jewish Film Festival.

Meet Leslie Benitah

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Leslie Benitah a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Denise Hans Fikman Holocaust survivor

The Last Ones Connects Holocaust Survivors to the Next Generations

The Last Ones, a multidimensional project incorporating video, podcasts, books and more, received a Federation grant to further its mission of creating a link between the last living Holocaust Survivors and younger generations.

85th Annual Meeting Award Winners

LESLIE GELRUBIN BENITAH was invited by a friend to attend a Greater Miami Jewish Federation Women’s Philanthropy meeting and came away deeply moved. Twelve years later, she maintains her connection to the Jewish people through her leadership in Federation and other Jewish causes.

Sundial: This South Florida storyteller documents the last Holocaust survivors

The past is very much the present for Leslie Gelrubin Benitah. She lives with it every day as she catalogs the stories of the last living Holocaust survivors. Gelrubin Benitah was born and raised in Paris. She grew up hearing stories of the Holocaust first-hand from her grandparents….

Leslie Gelrubin Benitah - The Last Ones