Holocaust History

We are stopping here with not really discussing anything with Surada, because Surada does not discuss.

Surada does not have the ability to understand history, she dreams of Arab ownership of all they conquered since the 7th century.

Akkadians were not Arabs, as so many other peoples who came from Arabia are not considered to be Arabs. Akkadian Empire came and went, like so many others, and they were indigenous of Arabia, not of Ancient Canaan. They are long gone, they cannot want any land back, and they cannot give anyone else from Arabia that land, either.


Over and done with your intrusion of Arab pathetic lies on every thread.
by definition ---they were not ISHMAELITES either--
Ishmaelites is another "arab" conceit flung about
during Khutbah Jumaat feces flings. Akkadians
were not illiterate
 
ALL OF THEM? how about the escapees from the filth
of shariah? them too? When hubby became a
PALESTINIAN in 1942-----his parents lived with other
escapees who had escaped before them---in a town
founded in 1882----only a few had family histories of a
sojourn in Europe. They were all Bolsheviks? Terror
gangs? There was plenty of terrorism back then----
but a lot less than in the shariah shitholes. How does
1920 become significant? The Hebron pogrom did not
happen until 1929

You should read this from Palestine in 1920.

 
You are both discussing the creation of Israel.

Surada hates going to that thread, so she brings all of her misinformation to all other threads.

Please, take it there.



 
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The NEWER Official Discussion Thread for the creation of Israel, the UN and the British Mandate​

 
If you’re going to make a documentary film about America’s response to the Holocaust, shouldn’t you at least know how many Jewish refugees were admitted to the United States during those years?

Surprisingly, filmmaker Ken Burns appears to be unaware of that basic information—or is, for some reason seeking to misrepresent the facts.

Burns has announced that his forthcoming film will challenge the “myth” that President Franklin D. Roosevelt abandoned Europe’s Jews. That remarkable assertion flies in the face of the historical record that numerous scholars have thoroughly documented. Nonetheless, in recent interviews, Burns has claimed that during the Roosevelt years, the United States “accepted more refugees than any other sovereign nation.”

That’s simply false.

Starting with 1933, the year Adolf Hitler and the Nazis rose to power in Germany. America’s immigration laws would have permitted the entry of 25,957 German immigrants. But the Roosevelt administration suppressed immigration far below what the law allowed. That year, only 1,324 German nationals were admitted to the United States. Smaller numbers came from other European countries—961 Poles, 864 Hungarians, 236 Rumanians (and not all of them were Jewish refugees.)

By contrast, the British government in 1933 admitted over 33,000 European Jews to British-ruled Palestine, plus thousands more to the United Kingdom itself, and small numbers to other British controlled-territories.

In the years to follow, the contrast between the Roosevelt administration and the British government was even starker. In 1934, the U.S. accepted 3,515 German citizens—less than 14% of that year’s quota—while the British admitted about 50,000 Jewish refugees to the U.K. and British territories (mostly Palestine).

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rom 1939 to 1941, the Soviets took in an estimated 300,000 Jews fleeing from Nazi-occupied Poland, according to the website of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. That was far more than the number of Jewish refugees the Roosevelt administration admitted during those years.

In 1942, the numbers admitted by the American and British governments were similar. In 1943, however, there was a significant gap between the two. That year, the United States admitted just 1,286 German immigrants. The British, by contrast, admitted 8,507 Jewish refugees to Palestine in 1943, as well as small numbers to other British territories. Those trends continued in 1944 and 1945.

Obviously, these immigration numbers do not change the cruel reality of England’s White Paper policy, which blocked most Jewish immigration to Palestine, nor do they change the facts about the Soviet regime’s mistreatment of the Jews in its territory. But the numbers show that Ken Burns is seriously mistaken when he contends that the Roosevelt administration’s record on refugees was better than that of any other country.

None of these immigration statistics are a secret. They all appear in publicly-available Immigration and Naturalization Service charts, which historians have been quoting for decades. If Burns has not seen the charts—or has not read any of the many history books that cite them—that’s cause for concern. If he knows the true figures but is choosing to distort them for partisan purposes, that’s even more troubling

Sheer numbers aside, there is the problem of the moral relativism inherent in the argument that Burns is making. The Roosevelt administration’s response to the Holocaust should not be minimized or excused just because other countries also did much less than they could have.

Moreover, is it really impressive if the president of a country claiming to represent high ideals of humanitarianism was slightly more generous in admitting refugees than, say, the military juntas ruling in South America? Is that the moral standard by which we, as Americans, judge our country and our leaders?



In fact, the rulers of the tiny South American country of Bolivia—which is only 424,000 square miles—took in more than 20,000 Jewish refugees during the Nazi years. What does that say about the United States, which is nearly 3.8-million square miles?
Translating Burns’s point into more contemporary terms, is it really a badge of pride that America’s meager response to the Darfur genocide was slightly better than the response of, say, Peru or Lithuania? We have a right to expect better from our country.
We also have a right to expect better from our filmmakers. While a full assessment of Burns’s film must await its release, the inaccurate statements that he has been making about the historical record are cause for concern.



(full article online )

 
Kudrow, 59, explained that when she was six years old, her father spoke to her about the Holocaust but she didn’t think it impacted her family much.

“I think I was a little too young for that and maybe as a consequence of that, all I knew was ‘Well, I haven’t heard that we had any relatives in concentration camps so the Holocaust, yeah, but maybe not my family,” she said.


Following years of condemnation from Jewish groups and tourists in Italy, an Italian winemaker said that next year he will...
Kudrow said although she did not think her family was affected by the Holocaust when she was younger, she now realizes how wrong she was and criticized herself saying, “It’s so stupid, this weird denial thing.”

(full article online)

 
  • Jackie Young with his adoptive parents Ralph and Annie Young at his bar mitzvah in London, 1954. (Courtesy)
    Jackie Young with his adoptive parents Ralph and Annie Young at his bar mitzvah in London, 1954. (Courtesy)
Holocaust orphan Jackie Young searched painfully and unsuccessfully for the identity of his biological father for most of his life.

He has known for decades that he was born to a Jewish Viennese woman in her early 30s, who was deported in June 1942 to Maly Trostenets, a Nazi killing center near Minsk, Belarus, where she was murdered. The woman’s name, Elsa Spiegel, appears on Young’s original birth certificate. It was noted that she was unmarried, and the space for the father’s name was left blank.

Young miraculously survived as an orphaned infant for two years and eight months at the Terezin (Theresienstadt) camp-ghetto in Czechoslovakia.

 

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