“My uncle was a partisan, and he was killed during the war. My grandparents from my Sephardi side were murdered in the extermination camp of Jasenovac,” Tauber explained. “Around 10% of Jews in Serbia survived the Holocaust, while in Bosnia around 30% survived. Around 10,000 of Bosnia...
How many Jews lived in Europe before the Holocaust? How many died in the European Wars of Religion? How many people traveled in the Crusades? How many people lived in Charlemagne's Aachen? How many people lived in the Forbidden City?
Had the Holocaust Not Happened, How Many Jews Would be Alive Today? A Survey of Jewish Demography, 1890–2000doi:10.1080/17504902.1997.11087052Sander A. DiamondRoutledgeJournal of Holocaust Education
Thousands survived, mostly women and children, but they were imprisoned in concentration camps. At least 45% died of disease, exhaustion, malnutrition, shootings, hangings, and beatings. There are many similarities between the Heraro genocide and the Holocaust, not only the concentration camps, bu...
Stalin is often compared to Adolf Hitler, who killed some 6 million Jews in the Holocaust. In the Ottoman Empire in the early part of the 1900s, leaders carried out the near-genocide of millions of Armenians. Many millions died as the result of Japanese war crimes during World War II un...
Although as a society we may wish for these events to be kept forever as a reminder to the future, things like the Yolocaust project, in which Shahak Shapira documented tourists being disrespectful at Eisenman’s Holocaust memorial, remind us that architecture cannot force people to reflect, ...
The war in Gaza reshapes Ramadan into a somber ritual in Jerusalem’s Old City April 9, 2024 As hard as it is in times of pain, Jews have always sought to observe holidays during persecution, such as in concentration camps during the Holocaust, said Rabbi ...
Wouldn’t many reputable (Gentile) historians refute Posner’s ludicrous comparison of the US Civil War with the Israeli killings of unarmed civilians? But Jews will contrive all sorts of historical distortions to justify atrocities perpetrated by their own tribe....
The story of an amateur Uruguay rugby team’s 1972 plane crash in the Andes as they traveled with relatives and friends to Chile for a match has been told on film many times. There were 45 on board. Sixteen survived after 72 days in the mountains. They faced biting cold, massive ...
Beradt’s book does not include any dreams with religious content, and there are no dreams from the Eastern European Jews who lived across town, on Grenadierstrasse and Wiesenstrasse—that is, the Jews who had already survived pogroms. But these absences do not detract from Beradt’s vivid,...