Some Hispanics With Jewish Roots Pursue an Exit Strategy: Emigrate to Spain

ALBUQUERQUE — Ana Maria Gallegos’s family has called this part of the West home for centuries. But after growing horrified by the resurgent racism she has seen across the United States, she reviewed her options and decided on a plan: emigrate to Spain. Ms.

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Nazis seized his home during World War II. A letter recently arrived, expressing remorse.

The letter arrived for Peter Hirschmann with a postmark from Nuremberg, Germany, where he and his family had escaped from Nazis nearly 80 years ago. The words, neat script in three pages, brought the 92-year-old resident of Maplewood, N.J., to tears.

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'Britain's Schindler' Is Remembered By Those He Saved From The Nazis

He was a young British stockbroker, when in December 1938, he cancelled a trip to go skiing in Switzerland, and instead went to visit a friend in Prague, who was helping refugees fleeing from the Nazis. That visit changed his life — and many others.

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Israel honors GI who told the Nazis, ‘We are all Jews’

AP — The Nazi soldiers made their orders very clear: Jewish American prisoners of war were to be separated from their fellow brothers in arms and sent to an uncertain fate. But Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds would have none of that.

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Nicholas Winton Is Dead at 106; Saved Children From the Holocaust

Nicholas Winton, a Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, a righteous deed like those of Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg, died on Wednesday in Maidenhead, England.

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Spain wants to make amends for expelling Jews from the country in 1492

Exactly 523 years ago on Tuesday, the Edict of Expulsion, which forced Spain’s Jewish community to convert to Catholicism or leave the country, was issued by monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella.



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