Author: Jamison Silinsky
Erased History of WWII: The Nanjing Massacre
The fact that World War Two was a brutal, costly, total war campaign is well-known to even some of the youngest historians still in grade schools across the United States and aboard, with topics from the European, North African, and Pacific theaters covered in units, semester- and year-long classes. What is much more rarely discussed, […]
On The Matter of Israel and Palestine
In 1948, after six decades of waves of immigration, or aliyah, from Europe to the British Mandate in Palestine by the Jewish population, the Jewish Agency, which had been functioning as the government for the Jewish population in Palestine, declared the independence of the Jewish state of Israel, claiming the territory of Palestine as the territory […]
Zionism, the Holocaust, and the Final Solution
Several decades before World War Two, a movement began in Europe among its Jewish population known as Zionism, which believed that the Jewish people were a separate one, and had the need for a state to govern the Jewish nation within it. This came as a result of the rampant antisemitism in Europe at the …
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The Multi-layered Marshall Plan
Following the destruction of World War Two, the European continent needed to be rebuilt almost in its entirety, however, due to the enormous costs of the war that had just concluded, Europe was largely unable to fund these reconstruction efforts, and indeed it appeared that recovery from the war would take years, if not decades …
The Memory of Hiroshima
In early August, 1945, the United States deployed two nuclear bombs against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, all but obliterating the cities and large parts of their populations, with survivors scarred mentally, emotionally, and physically for the rest of their lives. While the debate about the deployment of nuclear weapons is somewhat complex …
Restoring Identity and Nationality
After World War Two, millions of people across Europe had lost their homes due to combat, capture, conscription, or outright removal throughout the war, including hundreds of thousands of children. These people, searching for their homes, wondering if they had homes to return to, were labelled as “displaced persons,” or DPs, and this also applied …
Japan, the Nuclear Age, and its Public History
Image is Nagasaki, not Hiroshima, oops.
