The Holocaust

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The Nazi Officer Who Saved 100 Jewish Families

Dr. Albert Battel was a German loyalist. Born in the Province of Silesia in 1891, a part of the German empire, Battel served in the German Army during World War I. The war was devastating for Germany; the country lost 12% of its population and 13% of its land to the Allied forces.

https://aish.com/the-nazi-officer-who-saved-100-jewish-families/?

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A Serbian city’s Jewish community barely survived the Holocaust. Now it might die out.

NOVI SAD, Serbia (JTA) — In the heart of downtown in Serbia’s second-largest city, nestled between brick buildings on a leafy street, sits a large synagogue.

https://www.jta.org/2023/08/30/global/a-serbian-citys-jewish-community-barely-survived-the-holocaust-now-it-might-die-out?

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How individual, ordinary Jews fought Nazi persecution: A new view of history

In Nazi Germany, Hertha Reis, a 36-year-old Jewish woman, performed forced labor for a private company in Berlin during World War II. In 1941, she was evicted by a judge from the two sublet rooms where she lived with her son and mother – she was unprotected as a tenant because of an anti-Jewish law.

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/08/31/how-individual-ordinary-jews-fought-nazi-persecution-a-new-view-of-history/?

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98-year-old German man charged with accessory to murder at Nazi concentration camp

(JTA) — A 98-year-old German man accused of working as a guard at a Nazi concentration camp is being charged with 3,300 counts of accessory to murder.

https://www.jta.org/2023/09/01/global/98-year-old-german-man-charged-with-accessory-to-murder-at-nazi-concentration-camp?

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Holocaust survivor group claims victory after Christie’s cancels second auction of jewelry linked to Nazi plunder

(JTA) – Christie’s has announced that it will not follow through with plans to hold a second auction of jewelry from an estate that was partially built on Nazi plunder.

https://www.jta.org/2023/08/31/united-states/holocaust-survivor-group-claims-victory-after-christies-cancels-second-auction-of-jewelry-linked-to-nazi-plunder?

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Newly discovered document lists more than 3,000 Jews the Catholic Church sheltered from Nazis

(JTA) – Newly uncovered documentation appears to confirm that Catholic convents and monasteries sheltered more than 3,000 Jews from the Holocaust following the Nazi takeover of Rome in 1943.

https://www.jta.org/2023/09/07/global/newly-discovered-document-lists-more-than-3000-jews-the-catholic-church-sheltered-from-nazis?

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Paris mayor revokes Mahmoud Abbas’ top honor after he spreads Holocaust falsehoods

(JTA) — In a blistering letter, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas that he no longer deserves a medal she gave him eight years ago — her city’s top honor — because of what she called his willful Holocaust denial.

https://www.jta.org/2023/09/08/global/paris-mayor-revokes-mahmoud-abbas-top-honor-after-he-spreads-holocaust-falsehoods?

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One Woman’s Yom Kippur Sermon During the Holocaust

In the depths of hell, Livia Koralek encouraged her fellow concentration camp prisoners. 

https://aish.com/one-womans-yom-kippur-sermon-during-the-holocaust/?

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Dora Zaidenweber, 99-year-old Holocaust survivor, tells state lawmakers: “Mass murder can happen”

Bill would require Holocaust and genocide education in schools, including education about genocide of Indigenous people

https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/03/15/dora-zaidenweber-99-year-old-holocaust-survivor-tells-state-lawmakers-mass-murder-can-happen/?

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Native American Soldiers: Warriors and Witnesses to the Holocaust

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A Muslim family saved a Jewish one from the Nazis. 50 years later, the Jewish family returned the favor in Sarajevo.

(JTA) — In 1941 Sarajevo, a Muslim woman hid her Jewish friend from fascist roundups. Half a century later, that same Muslim woman was trapped in the besieged capital during the 1992-1995 Bosnian War — and her Jewish friend made sure she got out.

https://www.jta.org/2023/10/31/culture/a-muslim-family-saved-a-jewish-one-from-the-nazis-50-years-later-the-jewish-family-returned-the-favor-in-sarajevo?

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The Master Forgers Who Saved Thousands of Lives During World War II

From the Polish embassy in Switzerland came a campaign that spared many from Nazi extermination.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/column-forged-passports-world-war-ii

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Number of living Holocaust survivors is about 245,000, according to new analysis

(JTA) – Fewer than 250,000 Holocaust survivors remain alive today, according to an unprecedented new report by the organization that has sought to ensure that they are compensated for their suffering.

https://www.jta.org/2024/01/23/global/number-of-living-holocaust-survivors-is-about-245000-according-to-new-analysis?

ps:Wow, I wouldn't have thought that there were that many left??

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A Polish ‘countess’ saved thousands of concentration camp prisoners from the Nazis. No one knew she was a Jew.

(JTA) — In December 1941, a petite, elegant woman left her home in Eastern Galicia, where she was known as the Jewish mathematician Janina Spinner Mehlberg.

https://www.jta.org/2024/02/12/global/a-polish-countess-saved-thousands-of-concentration-camp-prisoners-from-the-nazis-no-one-knew-she-was-a-jew?

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Confronting Complicity: Exploring Ordinary Germans’ Roles in the Holocaust

Complicity among ordinary Germans took different forms in the Nazi regime’s early years. While some embraced the new anti-Jewish policies, others looked away as the Nazis isolated, impoverished, and assaulted Jews. Join us as we explore the complicity of many Germans in the Holocaust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDENtGPYTic

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Surviving Auschwitz: A Child Emerges from the Holocaust

It’s some of the most indelible Holocaust imagery: a group of children wearing striped uniforms pulling back their sleeves to reveal tattoos. Their young faces, surrounded by the barbed wire of Auschwitz shortly after their liberation, laid bare the evils of the Holocaust. Tova Friedman was one of these innocents—a young girl targeted by the Germans solely because she was Jewish. Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2024, Tova talks about how she is dedicating the last chapter of her life to fighting antisemitism and ensuring the victims of the Holocaust are not forgotten.

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Schindler’s Right-Hand Man became Israel’s Walt Disney

Working for Oskar Schindler, Joseph Bau forged identities and saved hundreds of Jews. The famous artist also worked for the Mossad.

https://aish.com/schindlers-right-hand-man-became-israels-walt-disney/?

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The Netherlands, home to the Nazis’ most famous victim, has never had a Holocaust museum — until now

(JTA) — The Anne Frank House in the heart of Amsterdam is one of the Netherlands’ most-visited tourist destinations. Outside of the city a memorial commemorates the Westerbork transit camp, where the Franks were sent on their way to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Several other museums tell the story of Dutch resistance against the Nazis.

https://www.jta.org/2024/03/11/global/the-netherlands-home-to-the-nazis-most-famous-victim-has-never-had-a-holocaust-museum-until-now?

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One Life: Nicholas Winton’s Quiet Heroism

The new movie One Life depicts the story of one “ordinary” man who, in the darkest of times, rose to extraordinary heights. Today, over 6,000 people are alive because of Sir Nicholas Winton’s actions saving the lives of hundreds of children before World War II.

https://aish.com/one-life-nicholas-wintons-quiet-heroism/?

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Henry Morgenthau’s Queen Esther Moment

The only Jew in FDR’s cabinet, the influential politician was in a position to stand up for being a Jew and help save Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

https://aish.com/henry-morgenthaus-queen-esther-moment/?

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Turning 100, This Holocaust Survivor Never Gave Up Hope

Masza Rosenroth was born in 1924 to a middle-class, Orthodox Jewish family in Poland. Her older brother, Leon, and two younger sisters, Gutia and Surra, were fun-loving, and their family was close knit.

https://aish.com/turning-100-this-holocaust-survivor-never-gave-up-hope/?

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Survivors Read Mean Tweets From Depraved Holocaust Deniers

A group of survivors decided to read some of the lies about the very real horrors they endured.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/survivors-read-mean-tweets-from-depraved-holocaust-deniers?

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Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Above: In Jerusalem's Old City yesterday, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks by a projection of a yellow Star of David that reads "Jude" — "Jew" in German — resembling the label Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Germany. Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, began last evening in Israel. It's one of the most somber days of the year in Israel, highlighted by a two-minute siren when traffic halts and people stand at attention in memory of the victims. Go deeper.

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In Holocaust remembrance, Biden condemns antisemitism sparked by college protests and Gaza war

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Tuesday decried a “ferocious surge” in antisemitism on college campuses and around the globe in the months since Hamas attacked Israel and triggered a war in Gaza, using a ceremony to remember victims of the Holocaust to also denounce new waves of violence and hateful rhetoric toward Jews.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-gaza-israel-jewish-congress-f2f84c9e7c52345c35e5cb4c2d00a417?

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D.C. remembers

Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Biden and top members of congressional leadership hold photos of victims of the Holocaust during the Days of Remembrance ceremony at the Capitol.