For many in the American Jewish community, Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday is an occasion to recall the important role that Jews played in the civil rights movement of the 1950s-1960s. But few remember the earlier alliance between Jews and prominent African-Americans, in the 1940s, on the issues of rescuing Jews from the Holocaust and […]

The destruction of the ghetto of Kowel started on Aug. 19, 1942. The Jews were assembled in the Great Synagogue and kept there for several days, without food or water, before being taken to the cemetery where they were shot. The prisoners left inscriptions on the walls: ”Farewell my beautiful world, in the last hours […]

This coming Shabbath, the 20th of the Hebrew month of Teveth, will mark exactly 800 years since the death of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon – the Rambam (Maimonides). The Rambam (1135-1204) was a religious scholar, physician, philosopher and writer. Born in Cordoba, Spain, he soon fled to Morocco after the Almohads conquered the area. He […]

ENCINO, Calif. – Abram and Julia Bobrow escape the Nazi onslaught in the early days of World War II and take refuge in the vast forests of eastern Poland. Their riveting stories are a unique and little known piece of World War II history. As chronicled by Stephen Edward Paper, Voices From The Forest: The […]

PARIS – When Ida Rozenberg-Apeloig received a book about the activities of the French Resistance in war- time France, her childhood memories of Chateaumeillant came flooding back. Rozenberg-Apeloig received the book in the summer of 2003 and soon recognized that many of the people cited in the work were associates of her father – fellow […]

Zdenka Fantlova remembers Terezin as the best of the Nazi hells: a ghetto with a swing band, a concentration camp with shoe stores and cafes. Here she wore her own clothes; here her family was still alive. Called Terezin by the Czechs and Theresienstadt by the Germans, this fortified town held World War II’s most […]

The guests crowded the beautifully set tables in Rabbi Chaim Shmulevitz’s tiny Jerusalem apartment. After celebratory l’chaims and impassioned singing, the world renown sage, the dean of the Holy City’s Mirrer yeshiva, stood up to speak. The festive atmosphere immediately turned solemn. There was silence. “My dear Reb Avraham,” the rabbi began warmly, “may you […]

Sixty-six years ago this week, Nazi stormtroopers carried out the infamous Kristallnacht pogrom against the Jews of Germany. On November 9 and 10, 1938, about one hundred Jews were murdered and 30,000 more were sent to concentration camps. Nearly 200 synagogues were burned down. More than 7,000 Jewish-owned business were destroyed. The vast amount of […]

As the most visible Arab-American critic of Yasser Arafat and the phony "Palestinian" agenda, I get a lot of hate mail. I’ve even received more than my share of death threats. Most of those who attack me at least those who bother to get beyond the four-letter words and insults say I just don’t understand […]

Every Jew should read at least one Holocaust-related book every year. Jewish-history.com is a site which specializes in the American-Jewish experience 100 years before the European Holocaust. We frequently receive emails and Google hits from searchers who want to learn about the Holocaust, so we direct them to the Holocaust section of our links page, […]