Based on Tatiana de Rosnay’s bestselling novel, the story follows an American woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) living in Paris investigating the arrest of Jewish families that was known as the Vél’ d’hiv’ Round-up in 1942 in Paris. The arrest of Jewish families was carried out by the French, not the Germans. (more…)
I read the following on the weblog of Hirschi Ayaan Ali, a famous Dutch woman. In the blog she explains that she had applied for asylum in Holland: “I was granted. The fact that I got asylum gave me the opportunity to study. I needed to pass three courses: language, civics and history. It was in this preparatory history course that I, for the first time, heard of the Holocaust. I was 24 years old. (more…)
Paul Argiewicz was a young Jewish boy growing up in Bielsko, Poland, when the Nazis came to power. Forced to leave his home and his schooling – and ultimately his family – by the unfolding horrors of anti-Semitic violence, he eventually was arrested and transported to a concentration camp. (more…)
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement claim to be the world’s largest impartial and neutral humanitarian network that provides protection and assistance to people affected by disasters and conflicts. (more…)
What follows is an edited version of a speech delivered by historian Andrew Roberts to the Friends of Israel Initiative in the British House of Commons on July 19, 2010. (more…)
Growing up in the West Bank, Mujahid Sarsur knew next to nothing about the Holocaust and saw little ground to sympathize with a people he saw as his occupier. But thanks to an Israeli roommate overseas, the 21-year-old Palestinian student learned about the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews during World War II and discovered a new understanding of his Israeli neighbors. (more…)
By Jenny Hazan Danielle Schonbrunn, 68, wasn’t born yet when her parents Yosef and Sarah felt the pangs of Jewish persecution and fled their native Czechoslovakia for Belgium, with Danielle’s 10-year-old sister, Juliette. (more…)
Did Christianity play any role in the millenarian hatred towards Jews that led to the paroxysm of murder known as the Holocaust?
http://www.SixMillionCrucifixions.com (more…)
“Hitler’s Pope,” Pope Pius XII, may have arranged for 200,000 Jews to leave Germany after Kristallnacht, The Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday. (more…)
The holocaust was a terrible tragedy in human history. While the Jewish people were not part of the conflict, millions of them were murdered by Hitler and his regime. This was and still is very painful. But Hitler failed! How? (more…)
