Amidst the madness of war, there are moments of hope and illumination. In WWII, one such instance was the Danish Jews’ escape from Hitler’s genocidal plan to eradicate all Jews from Europe.
A complete copy of a thesis at Columbia University published on-line with free downloads. The impact of the Holocaust on the rise of Orthodxy in America. The people and events that link events in Europe and America before, during, and after the years 1939-1945.
The following is a collection of stories about life in Vishnevo as reflected through the Elishkevich family saga. The period covered is from World War I (1915) until 1942.
A thirteen-year-old Jewish girl, Eva Heyman, wrote in her secret diary during the Holocaust. She poured her fears into it: 'I don’t want to die because I have hardly lived ..'
Dedicated to the Struma tragedy - the ship with 769 Jews was sunk near the turkish coast - England has forbidden the entry in Palestine. The website gives the names of the victims and try
to find theirt biographies
Miep Gies, Irena Sendler, Jane Haining, Maria von Maltzan and Emilie Schindler: unfamiliar names to most people, but these remarkable women defied the Nazis and saved the lives of many Jews.
This book chronicles Hans Schramek’s experiences at Auschwitz and Ebensee concentration camps and his efforts to reclaim his family’s multi-million dollar factory still in operation today.
On January 20, 1942 one of the most macabre conferences in history took place at an idyllic lakeside house Am Großen Wannsee 56/58 in Wannsee near Berlin. The subject was the organisation of the 'Final Solution', the destruction of all 11 million European Jews.
