Friday Book: The Jews Who Took Up Arms against the Nazis ; the Avengers: A Jewish War Story by Rich Cohen (Jonathan Cape, Pounds 17.99)THE IDEA in 1939 was for Vilna (a corner of Lithuania) to remain a free city, no part of the spoils of war for Russian or German. So, young ...
Reading comprehension- ensure that you draw the most important information from the related lesson on conflict inThe Book Thief Information recall- access the knowledge you've gained regarding how the Nazis treated the Jews in the story Knowledge application- use your knowledge to answer questions abo...
is commissioned by the Hebrew University in what was then British-ruled Palestine to retrieve a lost world. He is sent to sift through the rubble of Europe in search of precious Jewish books stolen by the Nazis or hidden by the Jews themselves in secret places throughout the ravaged continent...
The Russian propaganda outlet “Pravda” portrayed the Soviets as victims of the Nazis, and called for revenge and reparations. It conveniently neglected to mention the atrocities they committed. Stalin deflected blame from himself for millions and millions of Soviet deaths through the decades of his...
And in the “Age of Revolution”, killing to prevent tyrannical monarchs from having power over the people became socially acceptable. And now in the modern age, assassinating those the media classifies as “evil” such as the Nazis and terrorists has become a new noble unpunished quest. The ...
Everyone knew that Nazis were responsible for the Katyn massacre, so Tandrup's assertion was deemed Nazi propaganda. In 1952, however, an American commission of inquiry found that the Soviet Union was in fact behind it, and only in 1990 did the country, through Mikhail Gorbachev, admit that...
it is about aligning art to the goals of political fashion (and in the case of Gadot, some complaints look like barely-disguised bigotry. The argument that she shouldn't have acting work because she is a Jew sounds like the argument made by the Nazis 80-odd years ago against other Jews...
IBM, you see, supplied the Nazis with data tabulation products necessary to track the extermination of Jews and other groups on a massive scale. This was driven from the top of the company, with marketing to Hitler and his leadership team. Company President Thomas Watson personally approved the...
and drop a few shekels into the pot, aren't acting as if they have been reborn into the most exciting family in the universe. I know; I used to be one of them, and I was living a lie. Our passion for God's business is the barometer between faith on one hand versus trust on ...
b.SkimthefirstparagraphofthereadingpassageandfindwhowasAnne’sbestfriend.Why?Pre-reading WorldWarIIconcentrationcampJewswerekilledbyGermanNazisPre-reading ThetimeofthestoryTheplaceofthestoryTheheroineofthestoryAnne’sbestfriendThelengthoftimetheyhidawayThedateofthediaryFillintheformbelowWorldWarIINetherlandsAnne...