Incredible story of Jewish holocaust survivors who were saved from the Stutthof camp. 

The Holocaust survivors who met Kate and William returned to the Nazi death camp they were liberated from for the first time today and described the horror of seeing innocent people murdered ‘one by one’ in front of them.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge walked through the so-called death gates to the Stutthof concentration camp with Zigi Shipper and Manfred Goldberg, both 87, who were imprisoned there aged 14.

The lifelong friends have returned to the Nazi extermination camp for the first time since 1945 and were among 110,000 prisoners from 28 countries held there.

The friends were liberated in May 1945 by British tanks surrounding the barge on which they were about to be loaded – it was to be towed out to sea and then blown up with Jews packed into it.

Read more: ‘One by one we watched innocent men being hanged’: Incredible story of Jewish holocaust survivors – NZ Herald

The UN’s world heritage body has recognised the old city of Hebron in the West Bank as a Palestinian world heritage site, sparking outrage from Israel. Furious efforts by Israel failed to derail the Unesco ruling on the city, which includes a holy site known to Muslims as the Ibrahimi mosque and Jews as the Tomb of the Patriarchs.

Read more: Unesco makes Hebron old city Palestinian world heritage site | World news | The Guardian

In the mid-1990s, near the end of the period during which she lived in Israel, Jennifer Teege watched Steven Spielberg’s film “Schindler’s List.” She hadn’t seen the film in a movie theater, and watched it in her rented room in Tel Aviv when it was broadcast on television.“

It was a moving experience for me, but I didn’t learn much about the Holocaust from it,” she tells me by phone from her home in Hamburg, mostly in English with a sprinkling of Hebrew. “I’d learned and read a great deal about the Holocaust before that. At the time I thought the film was important mainly because it heightened international awareness of the Holocaust, but I didn’t think I had a personal connection to it.”

Indeed, it was not until years later that Teege, a German-born black woman who was given up for adoption as a child, discovered that one of the central characters in the film, Amon Goeth, was her grandfather. Many viewers recall the figure of Goeth, the brutal commander of the Plaszow concentration camp in Poland – played in the film by Ralph Fiennes – from the scenes in which he shoots Jewish inmates from the porch of his home. But Teege, who had not been in touch with either her biological mother or biological grandmother for years, had no idea about the identity of her grandfather.

The discovery came like a bolt from the blue in the summer of 2008, when she was 38 years old, as she relates in the memoir “Amon,” which was published in German in 2013 (co-authored with the German journalist Nikola Sellmair), and is due out in English this April under the title “My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past.”

Read more: When a black German woman discovered her grandfather was the Nazi villain of ‘Schindler’s List’ – Jewish World Features – Haaretz – Israel News | Haaretz.com

Israeli blogger, Nas, spent a week in New Zealand and created a video of his experience that has gone viral.  Check it out.

General Allenby entering Jerusalem on foot out of respect for the holiness of the city, December 11, 1917

On December 11, 1917, General Edmund Allenby, commander of the British “Egyptian Expeditionary Force,” entered Jerusalem, two days after the Turkish forces occupying the city raised the white flag before Allied forces. Understanding the symbolic sensitivity of Jerusalem to both its residents and religious adherents the world over, Allenby, who was later described by T.E. Lawrence as “morally so great that the comprehension of our littleness came slow to him,” elected to make his entrance through Jaffa Gate on foot. This was in intentional contrast to Kaiser Wilhelm II, who, visiting the Holy Land in 1898, insisted on entering the Old City seated on a white horse.

Gaston Bodart, Austria’s official historian of the Great War, wrote that the moral significance of Jerusalem’s capture “was even greater than its military importance.”

Allenby understood this. In declaring martial law in the city, he promised that “every sacred building, monument, holy spot, shrine, traditional site, endowment, pious bequest, or customary place of prayer of whatsoever form of the three religions will be maintained and protected.” And, as noted, he was careful to dismount from his horse before entering Jaffa Gate.

Prime Minister Lloyd George described the capture of Jerusalem as “a Christmas present for the British people.”

It is said that a Jewish Allied soldier from New Zealand, Corporal Louis Isaac Salek, hung a blue-and-white flag, decorated with the Star of David from the Tower of David. He had ordered the flag from the Jewish haberdasher Moreno Cicurel, of Cairo, who had it made by a tailor named Eliezer Slutzkin. Within 20 minutes, the British had removed the flag.

Read more: 1917: General Allenby shows how a ‘moral man’ conquers Jerusalem – This Day in Jewish History – Haaretz – Israel News | Haaretz.com

In this short segment of the banned and then released German-French documentary on anti-Semitism in Europe today, Jewish children explain that they live in a kind of prison now, and that they all want to move to Israel.

Source:  https://www.therebel.media/in_anti_semitism_doc_french_state_admit_it_s_over_for_jews_in_france

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas on Friday took credit for the killing of Israeli policewoman Hadas Malka in Jerusalem earlier that day, the Long War Journal reported.Hamas official Izzat Risheq wrote on Twitter that Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) had dispatched the three terrorists that carried out the attack. He dismissed claims that the killers were affiliated with ISIS.Hamas spokesman Sami Abou Zouhri later released a statement backing up Risheq’s claim, saying that two of the terrorists belonged to the PFLP and the third to Hamas.

Read more: Hamas Claims Killing of Israeli Policewoman, Raising Fears Over Its Growing Threat | The Tower

Germany’s public broadcaster has announced it will show a documentary on anti-Semitism in Europe after accusations of political censorship, The Times of Israel reported Monday.

The documentary titled “Chosen and Excluded – Jew Hatred in Europe,” directed by Joachim Schröder and Sophie Hafner, has become the subject of great controversy over the last five months.

The documentary was originally commissioned and approved by Germany’s public broadcaster WDR on behalf of its partner channel Arte. The Franco-German TV network, however, refused to show the documentary over accusations of pro-Israel bias in violation of production guidelines.

Julian Reichelt, Bild’s editor-in-chief, raised the suspicion that the documentary was being withheld to hide inconvenient truths about modern-day anti-Semitism in Europe. “It is suspected that the documentary is not being shown [on television] because it is politically unsuitable and because the film shows an antisemitic worldview in wide parts of society that is disturbing,” Reichel wrote on Bild’s website.

Read more: Germany Agrees to Show “Censored” Documentary on Anti-Semitism as Public Pressure Grows | The Tower