On the eve of the Sabbath, April 18, 1942, the Nazis perpetrated a massacre in the Warsaw ghetto, and the date is forever associated with the so-called ‘Night of Blood’ or the ‘Bartholomew’s Night.’ For a day or two before the operation, a rumour made the rounds within the ghetto that a uniformed German had… Continue reading “The Night of Blood in the Warsaw Ghetto”
Roughly 80 Jewish graves were vandalised in Quatzenheim, France, this week. Eight British MPs left the Labour Party complaining of an entrenched culture of antisemitism. In the United States, where memories of the Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting are still fresh, vandals broke the windows of a synagogue in Brooklyn this week and the antisemitism scandal surrounding… Continue reading “Antisemitism: A Social Barometer of Historical Proportions”
For my September CARR Blog, there can be no other choice but to recall the events of September 1941, when the Germans murdered over 33,000 Jewish men, women, and children in Kiev, at the Babi Yar ravine, in just two days. On September 19, 1941, the German XXIXth Germany Army Corps and the 6th Army… Continue reading “Babi Yar: Mass Murder in Kiev”