Muslims saved Jews from the Nazis in Albania (and Kosovo)
During World War II, Muslims in Kosovo and Albania saved many Jews from the Nazis in the German-occupied territory. They were following an ancient Albanian code of honor which demands […]
Holocaust Facts: Where Does the Figure of 6 Million Victims Come From?
Considering the amount of original research that has been done in recent decades, is this number still considered accurate by scholars of the subject? Haaretz 01.05.2019 One of the most well-known, if not iconic, facts known about the Holocaust is the number of Jewish victims killed by Nazi Germany up […]
NY rabbi: ‘Not even 1 million’ Jews killed in Holocaust
Yosef Mizrachi claims high assimilation rates inflated estimates; ‘he doesn’t know what he’s talking about,’ historian says Source: The Times of Israel A controversial ultra-Orthodox rabbi based in New York […]
Lack of perspective: Why journalists should be haunted by a history of blinkered reporting
When news of the Holocaust first hit papers, it didn’t make the front page – now, writers report impending wars that never materialise. Both approaches are dangerous, says Robert Fisk […]
Trudeau apologises for Canada’s 1939 refusal of Jewish refugee ship
Reuters International Nov 7, 2018 (reuters_tickers) By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally apologised on Wednesday for the country’s 1939 refusal to take in […]
The tip-off from a Nazi that saved my grandparents
The Holocaust When Alexander Bodin Saphir’s Jewish grandfather was measuring a high-ranking Nazi for a suit in Copenhagen 75 years ago he got an important tip-off – the Jews were […]
Exhibit documents Muslims shielding Jews from the Holocaust
Faith & Values BY TIM TOWNSEND • ttownsend@post-dispatch.com Oct 23, 2010 In 2003, Norman Gershman was looking for some of the righteous. What he found astonished the investment banker-turned […]
Holocaust Memorial Day: Coming to terms with a tarnished Swiss wartime record
By Julie Hunt https://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:43845042&locale=en Embed code This content was published on January 27, 2018 11:00 AMJan 27, 2018 – 11:00 January 27, 2018 marks Holocaust Memorial Day, to remember the six million Jews killed during World War II. swissinfo.chexternal link looks back at Switzerland’s questionable wartime policies towards Jews […]
Donald Trump, who doesn’t read books, is ignorant of history – and so is his pet chump Sean Spicer
The White House press spokesperson apparently could not grasp that Hitler used a chemical weapon called Zyklon B, with which the Nazis gassed up to a million of the six million Jews slaughtered in the Holocaust Robert Fisk Middle East Correspondent @indyvoices White House press secretary Sean Spicer apologised for causing […]
Despite appearances, Israel is in for a rough ride under Donald Trump
They might get the US embassy moved to Jerusalem – but they might also be very worried that Steve Bannon is going to provoke a war with Iran. What did the US government mean, when it said Iran was ‘on notice’ after its recent missile test? Was that a warning […]
Video: The Forger: If I sleep an hour 30 people will die
Source: New York Times By SAMANTHA STARK, ALEXANDRA GARCIA, PAMELA DRUCKERMAN and MANUAL CINEMA STUDIOS | Oct. 2, 2016 | 16:21 As a teenager, saved thousands of lives by forging […]
How do we separate the truth from the lies when reporting war crimes?
Each false atrocity bleeds into the body of evidence of other, real crimes, contaminating the truth for decades to come Robert Fisk in Beirut @indyvoices We all know the problem. […]
Anne Frank House from a Palestinian perspective
Apr 10,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Aseel Ghaben Besides of the joy travel brings to one’s heart, each destination is also an eye-opener. When getting out of one’s environment, one starts wondering whether he/she would still have the same values, beliefs and norms. Moreover, one would also learn tolerance and acceptance. […]
France: Le Pen fined over Holocaust remarks
Source: BBC Former French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has been fined 30,000 euros (£24,000; $34,000) for calling the Nazi gas chambers a “detail” of World War Two. He was […]
Georgetown gets $10 million for Holocaust research as Jewish studies grow at Catholic school
Source: The Washington Post Georgetown University, a Catholic institution long known for scholarship on the Arab world, is intensifying its study of Jewish civilization with aid from a series of […]
The Muslims who saved Jews from the Holocaust
By Tom Bousfield and Catrin NyeBBC Asian Network 17 April 2013 From the sectionLondon The Bosnian Hardaga family helped shelter a family of Jews A new exhibition aims to celebrate the role Muslims played in saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust. The Righteous Muslim Exhibition is being launched at the […]
Do you know the difference between a Holocaust and a holocaust? The Armenians do Despite what some sub-editors might think, the genocide of 1.5m Armenian Christians in 1915 was not a holocaust
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT What’s in a name? Let’s start with the Persian Gulf. Or the Arabian Gulf. Or just the Arab Gulf. I’m indebted to reader (and surgeon) Ross Farhadieh for complaining to me last week about my use of “The Gulf” – bland, dull and historically anaemic […]
Mahatma Gandhi on the Jews in Palestine (1938)
By Mahatma Gandhi (26-11-1938). PNN Several letters have been received by me, asking me to declare my views about the Arab-Jew question in Palestine and the persecution of the Jews […]
Johanna Neumann, Holocaust Survivor, Tells Story Of Being Saved By A Muslim Family In Albania
Johanna Neumann was nine years old when her family escaped from Nazi Germany to seek refuge in Albania. They spent six years there and survived the war thanks to a number of Muslim families who sheltered them along the way. Neumann’s is one of many stories that demonstrate Albania’s often […]
The extraordinary story of 100-year-old Yevnigue Salibian, one of the last people alive who can recall the horror of the Armenian genocide Her life was saved by the reins of a horse as her family fled the brutality of Ottoman rule
She was a child of the Great War, born on a faraway killing field of which we know little, one of the very last witnesses to the last century’s first […]