Holocaust Remembrance Day, Sir Nicholas Winton.

[RolandCuthbert]

I never heard of him until today.

He was known for organising the rescue of 669 Czech children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia before war broke out in 1939 using a program known as "Kindertransport". I had no idea that Britain began this program of transporting unaccompanied Jewish children from Austria and Germany before the war. So I guess some people were wise to the Jewish genocide.

Winton was British of course, a stockbroker before WWII. He was vacationing in Switzerland in late 1938 but went to Prague because of a call from a friend. There he was witness to refugees from the war living in brutal conditions.

He used "Kindertransport" to start a similar method for getting children out of Czechoslovakia. It is an incredible story that I was totally ignorant of until today, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/02/world/europe/nicholas-winton-is-dead-at-106-saved-children-from-the-holocaust.html

There was no comparable mass-rescue effort in Czechoslovakia. Mr. Winton created one. It involved dangers, bribes, forgery, secret contacts with the Gestapo, nine railroad trains, an avalanche of paperwork and a lot of money. Nazi agents started following him. In his Prague hotel room, he met terrified parents desperate to get their children to safety, although it meant surrendering them to strangers in a foreign land.

As their numbers grew, a storefront office was opened. Long lines attracted Gestapo attention. Perilous confrontations were resolved with bribes. Eventually he registered more than 900 children, although he had names and details on 5,000. In early 1939, he left two friends, Trevor Chadwick and Bill Barazetti, in charge in Prague and returned to London to find foster homes, raise money and arrange transportation.

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[Marrry]

I didn't knew about him. Nice post. check also this woman. She did something similar helping kids to survive
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/marion-pritchard

[RolandCuthbert]

I will check into it.

Thanks!!!

[Marrry]

😊😊

[jacquesvol]

1 in 20 Britons think it didn't happen.
www.theguardian.com/.../one-in-20-britons-does-not-believe-holocaust-happened

[RolandCuthbert]

I am pretty sure it is much higher in American society. 5% is only startling in Europe.

[jacquesvol]

Bannon's white supremacists... :p

[jacquesvol]

PIS in Poland, Le Pen in France, Golden Dawn in Greece, Orban in Hungary etc

[RolandCuthbert]

Well, maybe in Eastern Europe things have started going. . . sideways.

A little.

And I used to love going to Warsaw so much.

[jacquesvol]

edition. cnn. com/interactive/2018/11/europe/antisemitism-poll-2018-intl/

[RolandCuthbert]

Yeah, I met a young guy who did not know the Holocaust took place. And I was dumbfounded.

What is going on with our educational systems?

[monkeynutts]

History has too be taught not forgot.

I bet if you go to Tokyo today and ask any youngster if a significant event took place on August 6th 1945 in the city of Hiroshima, half of them would shrug their shoulders.

[jacquesvol]

He probably pretended , not to know it

[RolandCuthbert]

The guy is many things. But he isn't a faker. He simply did not know.

[jacquesvol]

cc-69bd.kxcdn.com/.../...3-Topline-Results-1-1.pdf

[jacquesvol]

edition.cnn.com/.../

[jacquesvol]

@RolandCuthbert We should use the sentence "Stupid as a Holocaust denier"

[RolandCuthbert]

Haha! Okay, that's funny.

[Christiangirl99]

I agree unfortunately the British Labour party has been infiltrated by antisemitism.
Also it's worth mentioning that 1/20 of Britons are Muslims.

[RolandCuthbert]

@Christiangirl99 I can't speak for or to antisemitism in the UK. But Islam does not explain antisemitism in America.

www.nytimes.com/.../...rgh-synagogue-shooting.html

PITTSBURGH — Armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle and at least three handguns, a man shouting anti-Semitic slurs opened fire inside a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday morning, killing at least 11 congregants and wounding four police officers and two others, the authorities said.

In a rampage described as among the deadliest against the Jewish community in the United States, the assailant stormed into the Tree of Life Congregation, where worshipers had gathered in separate rooms to celebrate their faith, and shot indiscriminately into the crowd, shattering what had otherwise been a peaceful morning.

The assailant, identified by law enforcement officials as Robert D. Bowers, fired for several minutes and was leaving the synagogue when officers, dressed in tactical gear and armed with rifles, met him at the door. According to the police, Mr. Bowers exchanged gunfire with officers before retreating back inside and barricading himself inside a third-floor room. He eventually surrendered.

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[Christiangirl99]

I'm sorry to say that antisemitism is on the rise in the US in both the left and right from what I can see.

[RolandCuthbert]

@Christiangirl99 First, let us define what antisemitism is. Because that does not happen very often at GaG;

hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group

So in my opinion, antisemitism does not include critiques of Israel domestic or foreign policy.

It is specific to "racism" towards Jewish people. As for your critique of left/right politics in America, I no longer believe in left vs right. Trump changed all of that. And once more, I don't really know much about UK politics. So I don't think it is my place to comment.

[Anonymous]

Great. As a polish Slav I have relatives who survived the holocaust. My great great grandmother was hidden by the Catholic church like a lot of other Jews all over Europe and thanks to the catholic churches vast network all over Europe made it to Switzerland. My great grandfather survived the concentration camps.

[BigRob420]

2 out of 100 will risk personal harm to help others. Sadly 78 are don't care either way and 20 are sexually gratified by hurting others. Hats off to that 1 out of 50 kinda guy.

[RolandCuthbert]

I would like to think I could have done this.

But truthfully, I don't know if i could.

[monkeynutts]

Yeah cool, plenty of amazing heroic stories.
I remember reading about a Jack Warner who was an Austrian Jew, he fled Austria over the Swiss alps, to france, then to the US, he joined the US army and went to fight the Japanese in the Pacific.

[RolandCuthbert]

Hmmm. . . hadn't heard of that story.

Thanks for sharing. I will look him up.

[monkeynutts]

I think that's how you spell his name, pretty incredible journey, on foot.

[Wolframium]

Heeey, it's Czechoslovakia. Precursor to Czech republic.
At least some British did something before the war.

[gentlemanscholar]

Truly, a man worthy of great respect.

[Anon-ymous1]

I was not aware of this hero. Thank you.

[JulieRoze7]

Respect🙏🏽

[Secretgardenblood]

Good Mytake.

[ChiPaPa]

Beautiful.