Nazi Germany

World War II and the Plunder of Jewish Property

Jewish History | by Merv Islip | Volume 25, Issue 3 | May - June 2019

World War II is generally viewed as the glorious victory of good over evil. Hitler’s Nazi Germany was defeated and the Jews were liberated from the concentration camps. But the reality is not so comforting. The conflict provided the opportunity to plunder the Jews and strip them of all tha…

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Raoul Wallenberg and the Rescue of Hungarian Jews

Jewish History | by Merv Islip | Volume 22, Issue 2 | March - April 2016

Although in 1944 the allied victory over Nazi Germany was not in doubt, new danger faced the Jews of Hungary. Refugees fleeing from Hitler’s Germany had almost doubled Hungary’s Jewish population to 800,000. Although Hungary was allied with Germany, the Hungarian government had provided a brea…

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Nazi Germany

World War II and the Plunder of Jewish Property

Raoul Wallenberg and the Rescue of Hungarian Jews

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