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…
Of all the depraved creatures — and there were many — who did depraved things during the Holocaust, the most depraved…
Treblinka was one of the most infamous of the more than 1,000 Nazi concentration camps. While Treblinka I was a…
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…
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WOW! FACTS
Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?
We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google
Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia
Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed
Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed
Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed