Deborah Lipstadt: Confirmation as U.S. Antisemitism Envoy Held Up by Republicans
In late July, President Joe Biden nominated Lipstadt to be the United States Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating anti-Semitism.
Deborah Lipstadt: Biden Nominates Eminent Historian as Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism
Dr. Deborah E. Lipstadt is a Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. She is also…
Faye Schulman: Partisan Who Fought Nazism with a Rifle and Chronicled the Struggle with a Camera
Faye Schulman was a resistance fighter and photographer who chronicled…
Princess Alice: Prince Philip’s Mother Is One of the Righteous Among the Nations
Princess Alice is among the Righteous of the Nations, non-Jews who have been honored by Israel for saving Jews…
Henryk Ross: Jewish Photographer Who Documented Nazi Atrocities
Henryk Ross (1910 – 1991) was a Polish Jewish photographer employed by the Department of Statistics for the Jewish Council in the Łódź Ghetto during WQorld War II. Ross also managed to document Nazi atrocities, including children digging for scraps of food and large groups of Jews being led to deportation and being loaded into…
April Benayoum: Miss France 2021 First Runner-Up Receives Flood of Antisemitic Hate
Miss France 2021 — the 91st edition of the French national beauty pageant — took place on Dec. 19, 2020. The winner of the competition was Amandine Petit, who represented the region of Normandy. The first runner-up was April Benayoum, 21, a model and winner of the title Miss Provence. After Benayoum alluded to her…
Taylor Nichols: Jewish ER Physician on Treating Seriously Ill Patient with Multiple Nazi Tattoos
Taylor Nichols, M.D., a young Jewish doctor, was confronted with an ethical dilemma in the Northern California emergency room where he works: He was called upon to treat a seriously ill patient with multiple tattooed swastikas and other hate symbols on his body. The man implored Dr. Nichols, “Don’t let me die, doc.” A heartwarming…
Georg F. Duckwitz: The Nazi German Diplomat Who Saved the Jews of Denmark
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz (Sept. 29, 1904 — Feb. 16, 1973) was a German Nazi (reportedly out of nationalistic, not antisemitic reasons) diplomat living in occupied Denmark. When he learned the Nazis were planning to deport the country’s Jews to concentration camps, he alerted the Danes and arranged with Sweden to give them refuge, As a…
Sir Nicholas WInton: The Hero Who Saved 669 Imperiled Children — Most of Them Jewish
Sir Nicholas George Winton (May 19, 1909 – July 1, 2015) was a banker from the U.K. who helped 669 children — most of them Jewish — escape what would have been certain death at the hands of the Nazis. Winton arranged for the youngsters to leave Czechoslovakia and make their way to Britain. In…
Chiune Sugihara: The ‘Japanese Schindler’ Who Saved Thousands of Jews from the Nazis
Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara (Jan. 1, 1900 – July 31, 1986) served as vice-consul for Japan in the Lithuanian city of Kovno. During the Second World War, Sugihara helped some 6,000 Jews flee certain death by issuing transit visas to them, enabling them to travel through Japanese territory to safety. He issued the visas in…
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