Tag: Jewish Refugees

In this discussion, Sima Shine, former head of Mossad's research division and senior researcher at Israel's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), talks about recent developments in Iran, including the death of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who led Iran's nuclear weapons program.
This text discusses Albert Camus and his novel, The Plague.
Salka Viertel, a prominent figure in European stage acting and Hollywood screenwriting during the first half of the 20th century, is celebrated not only for her associations with renowned artists like Kafka and Garbo but also for her humanitarian efforts in aiding Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution.
"The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within" by Richard Breitman recounts the story of Raymond Geist, an American consul in Berlin before and during the rise of the Nazis.
David Hirsh, a prominent Jewish intellectual in the UK, reflects on his family's history of fleeing anti-Semitism in 1930s Germany and expresses concerns about the current rise of anti-Semitism particularly within the UK Labour Party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn.
In 1998, Akira Kitade, a Japanese man, discovered a photo album belonging to his former boss, Tatsuo Osako, which contained pictures of passengers on the Amakusa-maru ship that Osako worked on in the 1940s.
Dr. Michael Satlow, a religious studies professor at Brown University, explains the historical processes that led to the Bible becoming regarded as a holy and sacred text.
"Advocate for the Doomed: The Diaries and Papers of James G. McDonald, 1932-1935" portrays the efforts of James G. McDonald in the 1930s to aid German Jews facing Nazi persecution, his struggles to secure refugee immigration programs, and his encounters with prominent figures like Hitler, Roosevelt, and Cardinal Pacelli.