Dr. Josef Mengele, ‘The Angel of Death’: Yes, There Is Pure Evil in the World
Of all the depraved creatures — and there were many — who did depraved things during the Holocaust, the most depraved…
Treblinka: Scene of a Brief but Courageous Jewish Uprising Against the Nazis in 1943
Treblinka was one of the most infamous of the more than 1,000 Nazi concentration camps. While Treblinka I was a…
Aristides de Sousa Mendes: Portuguese Diplomat Who Saved Jews During World War II
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…
Ideology of the Nazis: Fundamental Principles That Guided the Holocaust Perpetrators
Understanding the philosophical and doctrinal underpinnings of Nazism is essential…
To Atone, Grandchildren and Great-grandchildren of Nazis Do Volunteer Work in Israel
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…
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Holding Out Against the Nazi Siege for Four Weeks
Even though the Jews were enormously outnumbered and outgunned, and they knew their strurggle…
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks: Where Was God at Auschwitz? Can We Ever Forgive the Nazis?
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…
Panel Discussion: Albanian Muslims Who Rescued Jews from the Nazi Holocaust
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 —…
To Survive, Five Jewish Families Lived in a Cave for More Than a Year
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…
Kristallnacht: On the 82nd Anniversary of the ‘Night of Broken Glass’
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…
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