During the Second World War, Aristides de Sousa Mendes was Portugal’s counsul-general in the French city of Bordeaux. Antonio Salazar, Portugal’s authoritarian leader, forbade the issuance of Portuguese visas to refugees desperate to escape Nazi Germany. Sousa Mendes defied his own government and provided tens of thousands of such life-saving documents — including to many…
Understanding the philosophical and doctrinal underpinnings of Nazism is essential…
Even though the Second World War ended nearly eight decades ago, the legacy of the Holocaust haunts many young Germans whose ancestors supported the Nazi regime and the annihilation of the Jews. Many of these Germans have learned about the full extent of their grandparents’ and great-grandparents’ roles only recently; it was a subject rarely…
Even though the Jews were enormously outnumbered and outgunned, and they knew their strurggle…
The Nazi Holocaust raised many profound and troubling spiritual questions for the Jewish people and the entire human race. The late Johnathan Sacks (z”l) — a renowned rabbi, philosopher, and author — tackled two of those questions in the videos linked below. Undoubtedly, his answers will bring a measure of comfort and understanding to many…
During World War II, the overwhelming majority — virtually 100 percent — of the world’s Muslims did nothing to oppose the Nazis’ genocidal campaign to annihilate the Jews. Quite the contrary. However, a few Muslims did rescue Jewish citizens of their country, in addition to Jewish refugees who had fled there. They were Albanians —…
During the Nazi occupation of the Ukraine, five Jewish families lived in a lengthy cave system for more than a year to avoid certain death. Men from the families left the cave at night to forage for food; one sat at the cave entrance, ready to stab to death any unwanted interlopers. The Jews fashioned…
On Nov, 9-10, 1938, a horrific pogrom against Jews was carried out in Germany, Austria, and the occupied part of Czechoslovakia. Known in German as Kristallnacht and dubbed the “Night of Broken Glass,” at least 91 Jews were murdered outright and hundreds of others perished by maltreatment at the hands of Nazi paramilitary forces and…
In AntisemitismExposed.org’s in-depth interview with Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, he said the following: “If lessons about brutal events in the past are important — and they are, in my opinion — they must be imparted from one generation to the next. With the general population, you’re probably having to start from…
Dr. Peter F. Hayes is an esteemed historian and recognized expert on the Holocaust. Dr. Hayes -– who is not Jewish — is chair of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He has written or edited 10 books. In the video linked below, Dr. Hayes explains why and how the genocidal…
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