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The murderous history outside of the camps is still relatively unknown, no numbers, no names, just killing squads, collaborators and villagers who couldn't escape. It's their stories, those few who escaped or were hidden, who are helped by the survivor mitzvah project. And made known.
I don't think brightdoglover will mind us going a bit off topic here. When we were in Shanghai we visited the Jewish ghetto in the city. I think many would be surprised that such a place existed but Dr Feng Shan Ho provided approx 20,000 visas to Jews fleeing the Holocaust when no other countries would take them.
A neighbor of ours was a child when he escaped into Shanghai with a visa from the benevolent doctor. There is so much history that has not been adequately taught.
Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania, issued thousands of transit visas through Shanghai, also. He was dishonored in Japan for this and died in poverty and relative disgrace.
Hope ? Surrendering the Museum were the Trees o Righteousness; for those individuals, who aided the Jews. The day Corrie ten Boom died, so did her tree ! Her tree, is now the youngest tree.
On that tour, BeholdIsrael (org) Amir Tsatfati, met the grandson whose grandparents had a tree there. It was the first time Amir met someone who had a tree there, he also had Daniel share later that day with us on the tour how they aided the Jewish people.
IF you desire news of Israel, Amir lives in Northern Israel.
On that tour, BeholdIsrael (org) Amir Tsatfati, met the grandson whose grandparents had a tree there. It was the first time Amir met someone who had a tree there, he also had Daniel share later that day with us on the tour how they aided the Jewish people.
IF you desire news of Israel, Amir lives in Northern Israel.
It wasn't very safe after the war ended, either. My parents were separated but married before the camps, and she was only 18 and in the ghetto in a lovely Baltic country. He was 20.
Afterwards, when they found out that each other was alive and in different countries in Europe, she took a train to Germany to where my dad was staying. She had been in said Baltic country, and had to pretend not to be Jewish. Not sure how she did that, but according to relatives it was necessary for safety. Makes me really sad.
But I'm glad that you find your volunteer work fulfilling. It certainly is a good thing that you are doing.
There are a lot of stories to be told and these forgotten impoverished people want to be heard.
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