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…Thwarting The Eihrer Outside littler's Grasp Bulgarian Jewry survived the Nazis because the king and the commoners stood united. MICHAEL BAR-ZOHAR Special to The Jewish News n March 9, 1943, long trains of boxcars surreptitiously moved into the railway sta- tions of several Bulgarian cities. At midnight they were supposed to pick up 8,000 Bulgarian Jews, a first shipment to the death camp of Treblinka. The remaining 42,000 were to follow ...…
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…Editorials and Letters to the Editor are posted and archived on JN Online: wvvw.d.etroitjewishnews.com Company For Passover IN FOCUS victims like no other horror in human history. e always are ready for a couple of The issue here is not the numbers but the will- extra guests at our Passover seder, ingness of some to inflict agony on others but this year the visitors whom because they have a different culture or reli- we had not expected num...…
…TOM BAUM COMMENTARY Reflecting On The Holocaust hunger through graft, greed, payoffs ather than searching for and reciprocal deals. To him, surviving lessons of the Holocaust in in Auschwitz meant taking what one anticipation of Yom could whenever the opportunity arose. HaShoah on Tuesday, April Daniel avoids any hopeful 13 (Nisan 27), I would prefer prediction; he averts blithe to reflect on its implications and buoyant prophecies. — a more...…
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