Teaching the Holocaust Just Got Harder in Mississippi

Teaching the Holocaust Just Got Harder in Mississippi

(Composite by Hannah Yoest / Photos: GettyImages)AS A WRITER, EDUCATOR, AND THE DAUGHTER of a Holocaust survivor, I sometimes receive invitations to speak at schools or to teach, and this spring I was invited to teach a session on Holocaust history to lifelong-learning students. We met on a campus of the University of Southern Mississippi, where I offered candid accounts of the realities of life in Nazi-occupied Austria.We talked about how the N…

Arab and Muslim rescue efforts during the Holocaust

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A number of Muslims participated in efforts to help save Jewish residents of European and Arab lands from the Holocaust while fascist regimes controlled the territory. From June 1940 through May 1943, Axis powers, namely Germany and Italy, controlled large portions of Southeastern Europe and North Africa. Approximately 1 percent of the Jewish residents, about 4,000 to 5,000 Jews, of that territory were murde…