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Feng-Shan Ho was a Chinese diplomat who saved approximately 2,000 Jews during the early years of World War II. Ho was consul-general of the Chinese embassy in Vienna during the Austrian annexation Faith In Humanity, World History, Jewish History, Bravery, World War Two, Change The World, Good People, Amazing People, Historical Photos
10 People Who Saved Jews During World War Two - Listverse
Feng-Shan Ho was a Chinese diplomat who saved approximately 2,000 Jews during the early years of World War II. Ho was consul-general of the Chinese embassy in Vienna during the Austrian annexation
March 24, 1939 Refugees arrive in England aboard the American ocean liner "Manhattan." Stanford Prison Experiment, Jewish Girl, Play Soccer, Red Army, Vol 4, Perfect Life, Heritage Image, Historia
Kindertransport: A desperate effort to save children from the Holocaust
March 24, 1939 Refugees arrive in England aboard the American ocean liner "Manhattan."
Jewish survivors of the Nazi concentration camps in Europe still wear the signs of their ordeal on their tattered clothing at the new immigrants' reception camp November 4, 1944 at Atlit, during the British Mandate of Palestine. Les Migrants, 65th Anniversary, Declaration Of Independence, Present Day, World War Ii, Ww2, Baddies, People
Dramatic Pictures From The Early Days Of Israel
Jewish survivors of the Nazi concentration camps in Europe still wear the signs of their ordeal on their tattered clothing at the new immigrants' reception camp November 4, 1944 at Atlit, during the British Mandate of Palestine.
Women and children on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp". The Jews were removed from the deportation trains onto the ramp where they faced a selection process - some were sent immediately to their deaths, while others were sent to slave labor. Dachau, The Third Reich, Mass Murder, Persecution, The Past, Album, History Nerd, Fotografia
The Auschwitz Album
Women and children on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp". The Jews were removed from the deportation trains onto the ramp where they faced a selection process - some were sent immediately to their deaths, while others were sent to slave labor.
In 1943, a team of ingenious Italian doctors invented a deadly, contagious virus called Syndrome K to protect Jews from annihilation. On October 16 of that year, as Nazis closed in to liquidate Rome’s Jewish Jewish Ghetto, Italian Newspapers, Health Questions, Great Inventions, The Fool, A Team, Disease, Abstract Artwork
Italian Doctors Fooled Nazis by Inventing This Fake Disease - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
In 1943, a team of ingenious Italian doctors invented a deadly, contagious virus called Syndrome K to protect Jews from annihilation. On October 16 of that year, as Nazis closed in to liquidate Rome’s Jewish
Prisoners at the newly liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1945 Ww2 Photos, Real Photos, Bergen, Work In Africa, Gates Of Hell, Magnum, Photography
Bergen-Belsen: Photos From the Liberation of the Notorious Camp, 1945
Prisoners at the newly liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1945
The man who stumbled on HELL: His place in history has never been revealed. But a published memoir by an SAS officer recounts how he uncovered the horrors of Belsen. Lieutenant John Randall thought iron gates led to a grand country house. Then he saw figures, dressed in rags, shuffling from a hut. Trying not to retch at the smell, Randall addressed the prisoners. Afterwards he noticed the emaciated corpses locked in hideous embraces. The camp contained 50,000 prisoners, most of all near deat... Horror, Forgetting The Past, Interesting History, Interesting Facts, Horrific
The man who stumbled on HELL
The man who stumbled on HELL: His place in history has never been revealed. But a published memoir by an SAS officer recounts how he uncovered the horrors of Belsen. Lieutenant John Randall thought iron gates led to a grand country house. Then he saw figures, dressed in rags, shuffling from a hut. Trying not to retch at the smell, Randall addressed the prisoners. Afterwards he noticed the emaciated corpses locked in hideous embraces. The camp contained 50,000 prisoners, most of all near deat...
The man who stumbled on HELL
The man who stumbled on HELL
The man who stumbled on HELL
SS Guards draging victims into a mass grave. (CC wk 16, 17, 21) Anne Frank, Fosse Commune, Holocaust Memorial Day, Germany
SS Guards draging victims into a mass grave. (CC wk 16, 17, 21)
Tina Strobos, famous woman of the Dutch resistance who sheltered more than 100 Jews during the Holocaust, passed away at the age of 91. She risked her own life for total strangers. She found ingenious ways to forge travel documents. She let carpenters build hidden rooms in her own house. She was arrested multiple times and survived all the interrogations. Her house was searched multiple times.   she said, “ I just believed in the sacredness of life.” Women In History, Great Women, Amazing Women, Dieselpunk, I Look To You
Tina Strobos, Dutch student who rescued 100 Jews during the Holocaust, dies at 91
Tina Strobos, famous woman of the Dutch resistance who sheltered more than 100 Jews during the Holocaust, passed away at the age of 91. She risked her own life for total strangers. She found ingenious ways to forge travel documents. She let carpenters build hidden rooms in her own house. She was arrested multiple times and survived all the interrogations. Her house was searched multiple times. she said, “ I just believed in the sacredness of life.”
Chiune Sempo Sugihara, Japanese diplomat in Lithuania who saved 6,000 Jews. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18-20 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was still writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. Granada, Unsung Hero, Angels Among Us, Important People, Religion, Documentary Film
Chiune Sempo Sugihara, Japanese diplomat in Lithuania who saved 6,000 Jews. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18-20 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was still writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away.
Hugo Boss started his clothing company in 1924 in Metzingen. His company was supplier for Nazi uniforms since 1924. Hugo Boss was one of the firms contracted by the Nazis to design the black SS uniforms along with the brown SA shirts, and the Hitler Youth uniforms. Hugo By Hugo Boss, Poses, Jamie Chung, Men In Uniform, Pilot Uniform, Military Fashion, Military Chic, Military Men
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Hugo Boss started his clothing company in 1924 in Metzingen. His company was supplier for Nazi uniforms since 1924. Hugo Boss was one of the firms contracted by the Nazis to design the black SS uniforms along with the brown SA shirts, and the Hitler Youth uniforms.
The corpses of two children at Bergen-Belsen.  Anne Frank, along with her family, was deported to Bergen-Belsen just weeks before the liberation of her hometown of Amsterdam.  She and her family, with the exception of her father, died of Typhus soon after their arrival at the camp. Today In History, Franks, Pinterest, Exception
The corpses of two children at Bergen-Belsen. Anne Frank, along with her family, was deported to Bergen-Belsen just weeks before the liberation of her hometown of Amsterdam. She and her family, with the exception of her father, died of Typhus soon after their arrival at the camp.
The author of "Night," then a columnist at the Forverts, movingly wrote about the unlikely victory by Israel in June 1967. Elie Wiesel, Columnist, 50 Years, Israel, War, Male Sketch, Writing, Middle East
REVEALED AFTER 50 YEARS: What Elie Wiesel Wrote About The Six Day War
The author of "Night," then a columnist at the Forverts, movingly wrote about the unlikely victory by Israel in June 1967.
A budding Jewish community is rediscovering its history in Palermo, and working with the local diocese to open a synagogue in the Sicilian capital. Israel History, New York Times, Ny Times, Diocese, Synagogue, Thessaloniki, Palermo, Italy Travel
500 Years After Expulsion, Sicily’s Jews Reclaim a Lost History (Published 2017)
A budding Jewish community is rediscovering its history in Palermo, and working with the local diocese to open a synagogue in the Sicilian capital.