Category Archives: Holocaust

The noble house of Propper de Callejon

What did the Spanish diplomat, Eduardo Propper de Callejon have in common with Raoul Wallenberg, Frank Foley and Aristades De Sousa Mendes? Like the others, Propper de Callejon risked his life and career to issue visas to Jews to escape … Continue reading

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Sieg Heil

LGF noticed something about the Hezbollah salute. (via memeorandum) It’s Almost Supernatural noticed the same thing about “Palestinian Security Forces” and the “Fatah militia.” Elder of Ziyon noticed it about “supporters of the Fatah movement” Hezbollah’s 10 year old recruits … Continue reading

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Status quo ante

Elaine Sciolino reported late last week, By Making Holocaust Personal to Pupils, Sarkozy Stirs Anger (Somehow the Times makes a stand on principle seem like a bad thing.) President Nicolas Sarkozy dropped an intellectual bombshell this week, surprising the nation … Continue reading

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Torahs in the navy

I just received an e-mail about a Sefer Torah (Torah scroll) that was rescued from Lithuania and is now being used aboard the USS Truman. Truman Sailors listen to Sen. Carl Levin as he speaks during the Torah Dedication Ceremony … Continue reading

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Breaking: Tom Lantos to retire

Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress, is retiring due to illness. U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the only Holocaust survivor elected to the U.S. Congress, is retiring because he is suffering from cancer. Lantos, one of the … Continue reading

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The last Nazis

As they get older the chances that old Nazi war criminals will escape earthly justice increase. The Simon Wiesenthal center is making efforts to find some of the surviving few to bring them to justice, especially in South America. In … Continue reading

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The good news story of the day

There’s a site online for the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous that has stories of Righteous Gentiles who saved Jews from the Holocaust. I think these stories will make an excellent counterpart to the incredibly depressing news of the day. … Continue reading

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Honoring the righteous

Another good news story for us all. A Dutch couple posthumously received the highest honor for non-Jews from Israel’s Holocaust center Thursday for their bravery in sheltering a Jewish family from the Nazis during World War II. Hendrikus and Martha … Continue reading

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Faces of evil

Dara Mandle in Contentions Today, the New York Times makes available photographs obtained by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from the other side of Auschwitz: not the familiar images of starving prisoners, but new shots of vivacious German officers. … Continue reading

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A Holocaust tale, 1

Hey there, Andrew Sullivan readers. This story is turning out to be bogus. Read to the end of this post. And check out the main page while you’re here. Iran is running a TV series about the Iranian ambassadors in … Continue reading

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Backing up Holocaust testimony

A Catholic Priest is leading a movement to bring to light the testimony of non-Jewish Ukrainians who witnessed the Holocaust. And he’s finding that it was even worse than reported. Roman Catholic Rev. Patrick Desbois and his small team of … Continue reading

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The myth that the Germans didn’t know

A book review in the Jerusalem Post contains this little bit of horror from the death camps: In the early years of the war, the jaded German tourist could give himself an unusual treat: a visit to the graveyard of … Continue reading

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Poland misses its Jews

Or so they say. “Jewish style” restaurants are serving up platters of pirogis, klezmer bands are playing plaintive Oriental melodies, derelict synagogues are gradually being restored. Every June, a festival of Jewish culture here draws thousands of people to sing … Continue reading

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Stupid UN moment of the day

As a result of objections by Poland, Auschwitz has been renamed. Because the Poles were oh-so-very-good to the Jews during and after WWII, right? On July 4, 1946, townspeople and security officers, spurred by a false rumor that Jews living … Continue reading

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Nazi’s work permit revoked

An Italian judge did the right thing and put the Nazi back under house arrest. Pity the Italian authorities didn’t throw the bastard in jail, where he belongs. AN Italian magistrate has suspended the work permit of a 93-year-old Nazi … Continue reading

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