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NAZI SAVE JEWS

Thanks to the 1993 epic movie Schindler’s List, we know the story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish–Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II [Wikipedia]. What most people don’t know is that Schindler wasn’t the only Nazi to save Jews during World War II. Although their number was infinitesimally small, their humanity and bravery — they risked death to rescue Jews — are forever awe-inspiring. We remember and honor the three Nazis linked below.

Learn more about the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust from Wikipedia. ►

Read “Nazi official [Helmut Kleinicke, pictured] who risked [his] life to save hundreds of Jews posthumously recognized | The Times of Israel” ►

Read “The Nazi Officer [Dr. Albert Battel] Who Saved 100 Jewish Families | AISH.com ” ►

Read ” The Nazi [Karl Rudolf Werner Best] Who Saved Jews | The Forward” ►

Photo of Helmut Kleinicke: ZDF

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“In the last weeks, our nation has seen a series of anti-Semitic attacks targeting and terrorizing American Jews. We have seen a brick thrown through window of a Jewish-owned business in Manhattan; a swastika carved into the door of a synagogue in Salt Lake City; families threatened outside a restaurant in Los Angeles; and museums in Florida and Alaska, dedicated to celebrating Jewish life and culture and remembering the Holocaust, vandalized with anti-Jewish messages. These attacks are despicable, unconscionable, un-American, and they must stop.”

— President Joe Biden

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“I’ve served as a congregational rabbi for a decade or so. My leadership has coincided with an ominous rise in antisemitic incidents from vile online threats to the killing of 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018. During that time, I’ve listened to hundreds of conversations detailing real life encounters of antisemitism. I’ve heard diverse opinions and a wide range of experiences about its nature in the present day — from a swastika drawn in the bathroom of a school to microaggressions in the workplace and everything in between. But nearly every conversation I hear about antisemitism has one, surprising thing in common: in every instance where an antisemitic act has been committed, our culture — and conversations surrounding these hateful acts — tend to diminish or even deny antisemitism.”

— Rabbi Diana Fersko | MSN.com

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— Reporter Lisa Hagen | NPR.org