Tag: WWII

The most powerful week on the Israeli secular calendar is one that storms the Heavens and screams "ZIONISM"!

The Polish nation is passing a bill threatening a prison sentence of up to three years to anyone using the phrase “Polish death camps” to describe the extermination camps in Poland during WWII.

This is the chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice. An account of torture and murder by experiment in the name of scientific research and patriotism.

Washington and Jerusalem Day, Gadi talks about both.

Even Yad Vashem, whose research on the Holocaust is highly regarded, must now update its archives to reflect the new revelations.

"Anti-Semitism, even an anti-Semitism almost without Jews, racism and intolerance survive and lurk everywhere, at every moment."

Agnes Keleti holds more Olympic gold medals than anyone else in the State of Israel.

The newscaster's point was to make the Japanese look like innocent victims and not immoral, deadly enemies of America which attacked the poor innocent city of Hiroshoma with the deadly bomb.

Venetian Jews say the 500th anniversary of the world's first ghetto may present a lesson for new Muslim refugees.

A private foundation in Hungary plans to erect a statue to honor a notorious anti-Semite in a town east of Budapest.

Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a curious double tale of an ancient ritual pool and two Australian soldiers during WWII.

During his visit to China last month, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recalled that the city of Shanghai was “one of the few places that opened its gates” to Jews fleeing Hitler. Officials of the Chinese Communist government, standing nearby, beamed with pleasure at the expectation that people all over the world would read how their regime rescued Jews.

Schools across the country are banning not the gun, but the idea of the gun.

They are known as the Greatest Generation, and for good reason. As children of the Depression, they learned to make do with little, and lacked, most significantly, a sense of entitlement. As they came of age, they were called upon to serve and defend their country, and they did so magnificently, many with their very lives. They then went on to raise families and build the country into the superpower it has become – all with little noise and fanfare; continuing, through it all, to quietly do their duty.

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, Israeli President Shimon Peres and Jewish leaders from around the world will unveil the brand-new ‘Victory Monument’ in Netanya, Israel this Monday, June 25.

It is not often we find a Holocaust memoir where the author contributed to the saving of the saintly Bobover Rebbe, Shlomo Halberstam, met the infamous and controversial Kasztner and faced the devil Eichmann. Furthermore, she encountered gentiles that helped or contributed to her and her husband's survival; from the Polish mayor of Niepolomice, the Nazi commander of the Bochnia ghetto, Polish expatriates in Budapest, a Hungarian janitor in Debrecen to a Hungarian doctor in Budapest.

September 1, 1939 is the date on which Germany invaded Poland, starting WWII. While it should be said that the start of the war was not the start of the Shoah, which actually began with the rise of Nazism in 1933, it was a major milestone in the annals of the Holocaust. Within the first few days of the war, Germany had conquered and/or bombed much of Poland, including the capital, Warsaw.

September 1, 1939 is the date on which Germany invaded Poland, starting WWII. While it should be said that the start of the war was not the start of the Shoah, which actually began with the rise of Nazism in 1933, it was a major milestone in the annals of the Holocaust. Within the first few days of the war, Germany had conquered and/or bombed much of Poland, including the capital, Warsaw.

Special Note: In my last column, I discussed the tragic consequences of Sinas ChinamB jealousy and hatred of the brothers toward Joseph that cast us into our first exile in Egypt, which continues to plague us to this very day. The following is a continuation of that column:

Last Shabbos Jerry Bechhofer was standing in shul as always - two rows in front of mine, tall and smiling.

In what has been one of the major memorial events in Poland commemorating WWII, Warsaw saw a gathering of world leaders this week at the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

The current show at the Yeshiva University Museum is bizarrely titled.