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History Revisited: How The Fake Disease 'Syndrome K', Saved The Lives Of Hundreds of Jews During World War II
During WWII, three Italian doctors at Rome’s Fatebenefratelli Hospital invented a fake, deadly disease—Syndrome K—to protect ...
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Switzerland awaits verdict on World War II refugee policy
An international panel led by Swiss Professor Jean-Francois Bergier on Friday publishes its report on Swiss refugee policy during World War II. The report ... back many Jewish refugees at its ...
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What Was The Pseudo-Tuberculosis Like 'Syndrome K' Saved Thousand Lives During World War II?
The reasons are many, form devastation of the Black Plague to the slow unraveling of rabies' mysteries, contagious illness ...
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80 years after Germany surrendered, we’re still learning the real lessons of World War II
Eighty years on, few people are alive who remember World War II. Anne Frank would have turned ... their restrictive earlier policies toward Jewish refugees. And Hiroshima warned against the ...
Post-WWII Germany's first Jewish cabinet member on embracing her roots, countering rising antisemitism
Karin Prien was warned in 1960s Germany to hide her Jewish faith. Now in the government, she says a lot still needs to change ...
Marthe Cohn, a Jewish spy in Nazi Germany, dies at 105
When she was asked to spy for the French army, Marthe Cohn recalled decades later, she didn’t hesitate before saying yes.
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VE Day in Israel: Celebrating the 80th anniversary and Jewish heroes of the war
(credit: Wikimedia Commons) The story of Ruth Klauber, a 101-year-old Jewish refugee who joined the ... s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) during World War II. Klauber was born in Germany but fled ...
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The U.S. failed refugees during the Holocaust. Trump’s Libya plan would too
In May 1939, a ship called the St. Louis departed from Hamburg, Germany, with 937 passengers, most of them Jews fleeing ... upon norms of refugee protection dating to World War II.
Operation Benjamin works to replace erroneous grave markers for Jewish American service members who died in battle
Ben Zion Bernstein served in one of the most elite fighting units in the US military during World War II – the First Special ...
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Pete Hegseth is targeting a Jewish American hero — who’s next?
The Trump administration has drawn the ire of Harvey Fierstein and others for trying to rename a ship dedicated to Harvey ...
The Independent29d
Holocaust survivor thanks those who took ‘high risks’ to help Jews during war
A Holocaust survivor has paid tribute to the “high risks” people took to help Jews during the Second World ... Holocaust survivors and Second World War refugees who attended a VE Day tea ...
The New York Times28d
Lessons From World War II to Avoid World War III
Thursday is the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe ... including at least six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust by Nazis and their collaborators.