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Powerful, eloquent and utterly gripping... Jewish peer, 96, on his mission to stop IS massacre of innocents Lees zijn verhaal hier: Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3367492/Christians-saved-Nazis-save-greater-evil-Powerful-eloquent-utterly-gripping-Jewish-peer-96-mission-stop-massacre-innocents.html#ixzz3ut1SezSi  " I travelled to Zurich in the comfort of a first-class carriage but from the moment I arrived, I was a refugee without a home, food or resources.  A refugee committee gave me something to eat and onward passage. With their help I decided to try for Paris and then London, though I’d never been to either.  It was August 8 when I landed at Dover. In my pocket I had 16 shillings and sixpence and a permit to stay in England for just three months.  In London I was billeted in a desperate boarding house in King’s Cross, surviving on a handout of £2 a week. I had some letters of introduction but they were useless beyond ...

By Uriel Heilman December 2, 2015 2:01pm t Jewish refugees aboard the German liner St. Louis, June 29, 1939. (Planet News Archive/SSPL/Getty Images) NEW YORK ( JTA ) – They were called “so-called” refugees, told they were alien to American culture and warned against as potential enemies of the United States. This heated anti-refugee rhetoric in America was directed against Jews trying to flee Europe, not Mexicans or Syrians. Back in the 1930s and ’40s, the fear was of Nazi and Communist infiltrators sneaking in along with the refugees rather than the Islamic militants or Mexican criminals that some fear today. Here’s a snapshot of what Americans were saying about Jews as they sought to escape Hitler’s Nazi vise for refuge in the United States.   The polls In 1938, when Hitler’s threat to Jews in Germany already was apparent, America still was emerging from the Great Depression, and xenophobia and anti-Semitism were commonplace. In a July 1938 po...

"On 6 and 7 June 1943 two trains left Vught station. On board were 1,269 Jewish children who had been imprisoned in the concentration camp in Vught. Among them was an eight-year-old boy named David Jacob Zak. Everyone called him Deddie. On 11 Ju ne he and his parents, Simon and Judith, were killed in the gas chambers of Sobibor. Two months ago I accompanied the King and Queen on their State visit to Poland. The programme included a visit to the museum dedicated to the Warsaw Uprising which began 70 years ago this month. There we were told about the preparations being made for a memorial at the site of Sobibor extermination camp, the place where over 30,000 Dutch people died. The Germans completely destroyed Sobibor before the end of the war. In excavations carried out later, someone found a name tag of a Dutch boy that read: Deddie Zak, Uiterwaardenstraat 17 III, Amsterdam. That tag is on exhibit at the museum, with a photograph of an eight-year-old lad. Seeing...

A judgement is expected early next month in a freedom of religion case brought by an Italian lawyer who complains that he was forced to work on Jewish holy days. The applicant, Francesco Sessa, is an Italian national who was born in 1955 and lives in Naples (Italy). He is a member of the Jewish faith and a lawyer by profession. In his capacity as representative of one of the complainants in a case, he appeared before the Forli investigating judge at a hearing concerning the production of evidence. As the judge was prevented from sitting, his replacement invited the parties to choose between two dates for the adjourned hearing. The applicant pointed out that both dates corresponded to Jewish religious festivals and that his religious obligations would prevent him from attending. The hearing was set down for one of the two dates in question and Sessa applied for an adjournment. The prosecution and counsel for the defendants objected to the application on the ground ...