Jewish Genocide
Old and new antisemitisms
We asked Baruch Tenembaum, the founder of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, to tell us something about the Jewish community in Latin America and the growing of the antisemitism in several countries.
Italy's "forgotten heroes"
The tales of cycling champion Gino Bartali, cardinal Elia Della Costa, surgeon Giovanni Borromeo and many other Italians who during World War Two risked their lives to rescue the Jews are told in the movie My Italian Secret. The forgotten heroes which opened the Rome Film Festival on 16 October.
Who's on trial, Eichmann or Arendt?
The book Eichmann Before Jerusalem (Ed. Alfred A. Knopf) by Bettina Stangneth appear to challenge Arendt's thesis of the "banality of evil", but this should not lead to deny the value of Arendt's challenge to Western thought.
Brněnec among rubble and memories
Proof of extermination camps found at Treblinka.
Thanks to the work of a team of British archaeologists of Steffordshire University, led by Caroline Studry Colls, the first proof of extermination at Treblinka has been found.
Gilberto Bosques, Mexican Schindler
He rescued hundreds Jews when he was consul in Marseille. He was confined for one year by the Nazis. But he acted in compliance with Mexico government's instructions. Therefore Yad Vashem does not recognize him as a Righteous despite all documents owned by prestigious Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.
Shoah
the genocide of Jews
In the framework of second world war (1939-1945) Europe witnessed the genocide of the Jewish people (1941-1945). The “final solution“, the extermination of six million Jews, was planned by Hitler who had come on power in Germany in 1933. Since the publication of Mein Kampf, Hitler had planned the nationalsocialist revolution based on a racist ideology.
In the memory of the Jewish people and in the verdict that closed the works of the International Military Court, 6,000,000 victims of the extermination are estimated. As a matter of facts, the most reliable scholars including Raul Hilberg estimate about 5,200,000 victims.
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