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16 Tevet 5785 | January 16, 2025

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December 2024
Edition 125

Holocaust

80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz

It was the afternoon of January 27, 1945 when Soviet troops entered Auschwitz. They found about seven thousand prisoners, 500 of them children, sick and extremely weak. The Nazis deported about 1,3 million

Syndrome K – “disease” that saved Jews from the Nazis

At dawn on October 16, 1943, a Saturday, the third day of Sukkot, the Nazis surrounded the former ghetto of Rome, where a large part of the Jewish community that had been confined there since they occupied Rome was located. More than a thousand

The Red Cross and the Holocaust

By analyzing the circumstances that allowed the extermination of six million Jews, including 1,5 million children, in addition to millions of other people, all mass murdered in the “death factories” of Germany

Bricha, rescuing Shoah survivors

“Illegal” Jewish rescue organization linked to Aliá Bet, Brichá, worked in post-WWII Europe to collect Jewish survivors who were in Eastern European countries and in Displaced Persons camps and take them

Yad Vashem – the memorial for the victims of the Shoah

70 years ago, a Knesset law created the Yad Vashem Memorial. The first museum in the world dedicated to the Holocaust, it received a sacred mission: to document the history of the Jews during the Shoah, preserving the memory of each of the more than

Adolfo Kaminsky: The Forger of Paris

French Jew Kaminsky saved thousands of fellow believers during the Holocaust by forging documents and changing his identity. The fact of having a document that did not contain the “juif” or

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