It was June, 1492. All non-Christians were being expelled from Spain, including up to 800,000 Jews. That same month the navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus was commissioned to find “new lands”. Columbus was brought up in a Jewish family living in Spain that had converted to Catho…
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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