Category: Holocaust

By Joel C. Rosenberg
March 18, 2014

Four men pulled off the greatest escapes in all of human history, from a Nazi death camp in southern Poland. They did not simply escape to save their own lives. Nor did they escape merely to tell the world about a terrible crime against humanity that had been – and was being – committed. What set these true heroes apart is that they planned and executed their escapes in the hope of stopping a horrific crime before it was committed – the extermination of the Jews of Hungary.

by Ben Volman

The tragedy of antisemitism continues today, with voices becoming more strident throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and even South America, where Jews are once again being threatened in the streets and synagogues.

By Klaus Wiegrefe – Spiegel Online International
March 31, 2011

Adolf Eichmann was the chief organizer behind the Nazi mass murder of Europe’s Jews. Following the end of the war, he found refuge in a village in northern Germany before ultimately escaping to Argentina. Fifty years ago, one of the most spectacular trials of the 20th century began in Jerusalem: The State of Israel vs. Adolf Eichmann. The proceedings against the former SS Obersturmbahnführer, who organized the deportations of millions of Jews to Nazi extermination camps, brought the Holocaust to the center of global attention.

By William E. Seidelman

The past few months have seen a number of revelations concerning hitherto-hidden secrets of the Holocaust: gold plundered from corpses; the corporate theft of life savings placed for safekeeping in Swiss banks; looted art displayed in distinguished galleries; and the expropriation by insurance companies of the unclaimed insurance policies of Holocaust victims. The beneficiaries — prestigious banks, elite galleries, wealthy insurance companies — are not the sort of institutions one ordinarily associates in any way with genocide.

by Martin Gilbert 
1987

This comprehensive history of the Holocaust from the rise of Hitler to power in 1933 to the defeat of Germany in 1945 is based on German and Jewish documentation, including material collected for the Nuremberg, Eichmann and other war crimes trials.

by Holocaust Encyclopedia

Kristallnacht, literally, “Night of Crystal,” is often referred to as the “Night of Broken Glass.” The name refers to the wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms which took place on November 9 and 10, 1938, throughout Germany, annexed Austria, and in areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia recently occupied by German troops.

by answers.com

The Holocaust, Nazi Germany’s systematic destruction of the European Jews, began in June 1941 and ended with the defeat of Germany in May 1945. The U.S. government was aware of Germany’s program of extermination by November 1942, but for fourteen months thereafter the State Department, with the knowledge and acquiescence of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, made virtually no attempt to rescue Jews.

by Jennifer Rosenberg

The Holocaust stands out for its frightening rationality and efficiency in systematically killing the Jewish people and other so-called subhumans.

by Lori Kalner

Lori Kalner is a real person. She lived through the Hitler years and is now an elderly woman. She is a friend of Bodie Thoene, the Christian author. Please read her story. It is so important for the times we are living in. In Germany, when Hitler came to power, it was a time of terrible financial depression. Money was worth nothing. In Germany people lost homes and jobs, just like in the American Depression in the 1930s, which we have read about in Thoene’s Shiloh books. In those days, in my homeland, Adolph Hitler was elected to power by promising ‘Change.’

by Hillel Cohen, Workers World

Fifty years ago, Soviet Red Army soldiers liberated Auschwitz and shut down the largest Nazi death factory. More than 1 million Jewish people had been slaughtered in Auschwitz’s gas chambers and ovens.