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Entries Tagged ‘Jews’

Anne Frank on film

The Anne Frank Museum has its own YouTube channel and has released this video, the only known bit of film that shows Anne Frank on film.
July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the [...]

Irena Sendler, a true inspiration

During WWII, Irena was given permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a plumbing/sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive. Being German, Irena knew what the Nazi plan was for Jews.
Irena smuggled out infants in the bottom of a tool box she carried in the back of her truck. She used a burlap sack [...]

Old Jews Telling Jokes

Old Jews Telling Jokes has a new joke every Tuesday and Thursday.  Some of them are quite funny.