Alfred Dreyfus, the French Jewish military officer, who was falsely accused of treason in 1894 in France, has been posthumously promoted to the rank of brigadier general.[1]
Captain Alfred Dreyfus was charged with selling secret documents to Germany.
French President, Emmanuel Macron, and …
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The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has announced that a fragment of an Assyrian cuneiform inscription on a pottery sherd from the First Temple period (eighth to seventh centuries BC) has been uncovered near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.[1]
Measuring about 2.5cm (1 inch) in size, the tiny artefa…
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[1] Based on: Chiune Sempo Sugihara, https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/stories/sugihara.html
When the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939, many of the Jews fled to the east of the country, which was occupied by the Soviet Union. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union had signed a non-a…
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A social worker in Warsaw, Poland, during the Nazi occupation, Irena Sendler organised a group that smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto. As a result, nearly 2500 children were saved from certain death under the Nazis.
The Warsaw Ghetto was created by the Nazis to concentrate th…
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1Situated in the Indian Ocean, Madagascar is the fourth-largest island in the world. Annexed by France in 1897, it gained its independence in 1960. But very few people know that the Nazis had a plan for the resettlement in Madagascar of Jews.
The Nazis’ aim was to make all of Europe free of Jew…
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