The Moroccan King Who Saved the Jews

The Moroccan King Who Saved the Jews

In the course of World War II, thousands of non-Jews risked their lives to save Jews from deportation to the death camps throughout Nazi-occupied Europe. In addition to books and films like Schindler’s List, these people have received recognition by the Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust Museum, as “Righteous Among the Nations”. Yet little has been…

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The Liberation of Auschwitz, 80 Years Ago

The Liberation of Auschwitz, 80 Years Ago

Regarding what he expected when entering the gates of Auschwitz, Ivan Martynushkin, a soldier from the 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front, one of the first Allied soldiers to reach Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, said, “We knew nothing.” “Only the highest-ranking officers of the General Staff had perhaps heard of the camp,” he…

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