Month: October 2016

After World War II, Europe and its people were damaged. As we’ve discussed millions of people were displaced from their homes and their countries. Many left defenseless, homeless and some left for dead. The United Nations and many other worldwide organizations worked hard, and sometimes not efficiently to help these people find a place to […]

It is no secret that millions of people on the European continent were displaced from their countries and homes after World War II. The years of fighting and destruction left millions in a state of limbo while being corralled into … Continue reading →

Before World War Two, and before the devastation of the Holocaust, the British ruled the land of Palestine, and in 1933 The Haarava Agreement was signed between Palestine and Nazi Germany where a treaty was signed that allowed this land to be the National Jewish Home. Because of the war, and Britain’s hateful relationship with […]

Prior to the Second World War and the events of the Holocaust, there had been few major attempts made by members of the European Jewish community to leave Europe and create a true Jewish state of Israel in what was then Palestine.  Of course, there was the Yishuv, but it was only a relatively minor…

People may often look at what was going on in Germany during the 1930’s and ask, “Why did the Jews stay in Germany?” I asked myself the same things after reading about the Zionist’s actions to try and protect their… Continue Reading →

During World War II, Hitler came to power in Germany and was in charge during the Third Reich. While Hitler was in power he forced the Jews to move to ghettos and concentration camps. The Jews lived in horrible conditions and many died. They were not given proper care, food, or living conditions in these […]

The first that I thought of when reading about how Jewish Displaced persons used the land of former Nazi’s to build farming communities that could be used to train Jews for living in Palestine is how Israel is known for its military prowess, which I have always understood to be a product of Jews working … Continue reading “Unity in Europe training for the creation of Israel?”

Lessons on the horrors of the Holocaust often include statistics on the number of deaths and personal narratives of survivors and their hardships. What became of the liberated Jews directly following the Holocaust is often overlooked. Many survivors had no home to return to because approximately 5,000 Jewish communities had been destroyed during WWII. Others […]

Tension in Germany, between the Jews and the Nazi party, predated the mass extermination we now know as the holocaust. Nazi officials had been using propaganda newspapers such as the Angriff, which was headed by Joseph Goebbels, to promote the relocation of Jews out of Germany since the 1920’s (Segev, 19). These newspapers played to […]

In the early 1930s there was a political transfer of power in Germany to the Nazi party. At this time, the party was led by Adolf Hitler and he was known for his views and his agenda for the future of Germany. Part of his views, which were shared by a majority of the Nazi […]