WWII Holocaust Heroes - Zookeeper's Jan and Antonina…
As many as 300 passed through the zoo, and many survived the war because of Jan and his wife.
In 1933 the Nazi party seized control of the government in Germany. Overnight Germany was no longer a free democratic country, but had become a police state.
In the 1960s, Israel's Mossad hired a former (and unapologetic) Nazi to prevent Egypt from developing a missile program with the help of former Nazi scientists. This sensitive operation required the help of an expert in psychological warfare and Mossad agent, Yosef Raanan.
John Weidner was born in Belgium but moved to France when the Nazis invaded western Europe.
The day before his seventh birthday, Nazis ransacked Peter Ney’s home in Nuremberg, Germany.
What was it like for the Jewish people who were forced into ghettos by the Nazis?
At Least There Is Hope for a Tree . . . There is a young carob tree that isn’t quite leafy enough to offer much shade yet, but its space along the Avenue of the Righteous offers visitors another type of (dis)comfort: reflection.
Did Jews go like sheep to the slaughter during World War II?