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This is the story of Henry Wermuth, who went from observing hate to experiencing its brutality. A young German Jew who bravely attempted to assassinate Hitler. For young Henry, the 1930s in Germany was an unsettling and tense place. He recalls the unease adults around him felt, a feeling echoed by his daughter, Ilana, who […]
History
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Many identify cultural sophistication and education with morality and ethics. This conflation of education and goodness has, tragically, been contradicted by historical fact time and time again. According to George Leaman’s book about the famous German philosopher and Nazi sympathizer, Martin Heidegger, of 157 non-Jewish philosophy professors in Germany, 37% joined the Nazi party. The […]
Gerda Cole left her family and world behind when she was just 15 years old. The year was 1939, and Gerda’s native city of Vienna had become a hell for Jews. Germany had absorbed the Austrian Republic the year before in the Anschluss (German for “union”) and Vienna was now part of the Nazi Reich. […]
In the past two weeks, university campuses all over the U.S. have seen the rise of anti-Israel protests and “encampments” by students. Unfortunately, many of these protests have involved antisemitic chants, flags, outspoken support of Hamas, Hezbollah and other radical terrorist groups, and sometimes even violence against Jewish students. I graduated from New York University […]
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How could humanity allow the Holocaust to happen?
