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To: Homer_J_Simpson

September 26, 1942:


"About 75,000 Jews in France (mostly foreign) were deported; others were confined to concentration camps.
About 25,000 Belgian and 100,000 Dutch Jews were also deported, most to their deaths."


"An antisemitic and anti-Gaullist propaganda poster depicts French General Charles de Gaulle as the puppet of the Jews.
The poster's headline reads, "The True Face of Free France."
When combined with the portrait of the general standing in front of stereotypically portrayed Jews, these words clearly communicated the desired message.
As leader of the Free French government-in-exile in London, de Gaulle's opposition to the Nazis was well established.
The Nazi propaganda machine sought to discredit its opponents by linking them with 'international Jewry.' "


"Shmuel Kaplinski was a member of Vilna, Lithuania's United Partisan Organization, a wide-ranging alliance comprised of members from numerous youth groups.
On September 23, 1942, Kaplinski helped 80 to 100 FPO members escape from the ghetto via the Vilna sewer system.
Once outside of the ghetto, the group rendezvoused with the Kailis partisans, who operated in the nearby Rudninkai Forest."


September 27, 1942:


"This false identity card was issued to David Donoff in September 1942.
The Donoff family engaged in forgery operations for the Jewish Resistance in France.
All seven siblings of the Donoff family were members of a Resistance organization known as Éclaireurs israélites de France.
Of the seven siblings, the two brothers were killed for participating in Resistance operations; the five sisters survived the war."


"Hampered by the British White Paper of 1939, which severely restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine, members of the Yishuv, the organized Jewish community in Palestine, agonized as they learned of the deportations and deaths.
Here, Yishuv members gather before the tomb of the prophet Zechariah on the Mount of Olives to mourn those who had died at the hands of the Nazis.
The group recalled the prophet's words spoken in earlier times of persecution:


"This obviously staged photograph shows Jews beating Jews in the Kolbuszowa (Poland) Ghetto.
The Nazis used such propaganda photos to establish that Jews were animals who often turned on each other, just like the rats to which the Nazis often compared them.
The implication was clear: If the Jews did not care about themselves, why should the German people care about them?"



8 posted on 09/27/2012 5:24:37 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: BroJoeK
"Hampered by the British White Paper of 1939, which severely restricted Jewish immigration to Palestine, members of the Yishuv, the organized Jewish community in Palestine, agonized as they learned of the deportations and deaths.

Blaming the British White Paper of 1939 for preventing Jews escaping the Holocaust is less than accurate. The restrictive immigration policy went into effect within a few months of Germany invading Poland... a little late to be thinking about going to Palestine.

Prior to the White Paper of 1939, my understanding is that all a Jew had to do to get a visa to Palestine was purchase land. I don't recall there being a minimum purchase size either. Why didn't more European Jews see the writing on the wall prior to 1939 and at least buy a plot of land in Palestine as an insurance policy?

Furthermore, other nations had unfilled visas. The Dominican Republic in particular had 100K visa's available for European Jews, almost none of which were filled. That the Dominican Republic had so many unfilled visa's should bear witness to the state of denial that European Jews were in.

10 posted on 09/27/2012 6:59:05 AM PDT by fso301
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