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This week in Jewish history: The first Shabbat and the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto

From the first Shabbat to the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto, this week’s stories trace the traditions that sustained Jewish life and the people who fought to preserve it.

This Week in Jewish History: The Nuremberg Laws and a Jewish refuge in New York

The Nazis enact the Nuremberg Race Laws, and Mordecai Manuel Noah dedicates Ararat, his unrealized Jewish refuge near Buffalo.

This Week in Jewish History: Italy bombs Tel Aviv and Israel signs a reparations deal with West Germany

Fascist Italy bombs Tel Aviv during World War II, and Israel signs a fiercely contested reparations agreement with West Germany.

This week in Jewish history: World War II begins and Dutch Jews gain equal rights

How did Jews become equal citizens in the Netherlands, and how did Germany’s invasion of Poland unleash the horrors of World War II?

This Week in Jewish History: The Night of the Murdered Poets and Białystok Ghetto Uprising

Stalin executed 13 Soviet Jewish intellectuals, while Jewish resistance fighters rose against the Nazis in the Białystok Ghetto.

The Jewish Woman Who Hunted Jews For The Gestapo

This week in Jewish history: Göring’s Final Solution order and first Russian Jews arrive in NYC

This week in Jewish history, Göring ordered preparations for the Final Solution, and Russian Jewish immigrants arrived in New York City.

This week in Jewish history: The Vel d’Hiv roundup and the end of the Spanish Inquisition

This week in Jewish history: Remember the Vel d’Hiv roundup in Paris and the surprising abolition of the Spanish Inquisition in 1834.

‘Miracle’ reveals the incredible true story of the 51 boys who escaped Auschwitz’s gas chamber

In “Miracle,” Rabbi Naftali Schiff and Michael Calvin recount how 51 Jewish boys escaped the gas chambers at Auschwitz.

How Nazis hid the Holocaust: 5 shocking details From Tom Hanks’ WWII series

From Kristallnacht to Auschwitz, “World War II with Tom Hanks” explores how Nazi Germany carried out the Holocaust.

The Real Reason Anne Frank Became a Global Symbol

The Holocaust Myth That Isn’t True

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