by hadassah | Jul 25, 2017 | American Presidents, Arabs Say No to Jewish Homeland, Holocaust, Presence in the Land, State of Israel
King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and President Franklin D. Roosevelt meeting on board the USS, Quincy, off Alexandria, Egypt, as Roosevelt returned from the Yalta Conference to the United States, 14 February 1945. Source: Martin Glibert, Churchill and the Jews: A...
by hadassah | Jul 11, 2017 | Holocaust, Presence in the Land, State of Israel
Raphael Lemkin escaped the Nazi invasion of Poland coined the term “genocide,” served as an adviser to the U.S. War Department and became a law professor at Yale. Thanks to Lemkin’s efforts, on Nov.9, 1948, the 10th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the United Nations...
by hadassah | Apr 11, 2016 | Holocaust, Returning and Redemption
What prevented the Allies (and especially the Americans) from responding to the evil of Auschwitz?
by hadassah | Jan 28, 2009 | Holocaust, Returning and Redemption
Mikhail Dercacz, a 73-year-old Queens resident, had his citizenship revoked last Thursday by a federal judge who ruled Dercacz had concealed his role as a Ukrainian policeman who had assisted the Nazis in persecuting Jews when he applied for admission to the United...
by hadassah | Nov 6, 2008 | Holocaust, Returning and Redemption
Telegram from Yitzhak Schwartzbart, Zionist representative in the Polish National Council in exile (London), to the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem, 8 August 1943. NLT JEWISH AGENCY JERUSALEM FOR TABENKIN AND JAARI RECEIVED YESTERDAY MESSAGE FROM CYWIA [Zivia Lubetkin] AND...
by hadassah | Aug 18, 2008 | Holocaust, Returning and Redemption
Jan. 30, 1933 – Hitler Appointed Chancellor 1934 – Nazi Rally in Buckeberg 1935 -Nuremberg Laws on German Citizenship 1. A Reich citizen is a subject of the State who is of German or related blood, who proves by his conduct that he is willing and...