The Holocaust with a Note on the Sephardic Experience

Brief overview of the Holocaust, with some remarks on the Sephardic experience.

[@tallmikbcroft6937]

I recently visited Yad Vashem. It was an intense emotional experience. My guide saw that I was upset, he told me "don't be sad. When you came out did you see the blue sky over Yerushalaim? People living in peace. We remember the past so we can work for a better future." Your lecture brought me back memories of that visit. I also learned more the people and about their lives. Thank you very much Dr. Abrams. Please continue the good work you are doing and share it with the world.

[@chooselife903]

Thank you for this lecture . However my Russo family members from SICILY..were murdered in Treblinka. They were sephardic Jews who were forced to be Catholics in the Spanish inquisition. .reconverted to judaism. were then killed by the nazis! It bothers me that my family's double destruction for the same reason were overlooked. Please make it a point to include sicilian or italian jewish descendants of spanish inquistion murder and included the nazis murder in ww2.

[@PC-lu3zf]

Thank you very much for doing this lecture its really good. Luckily my Sephardic family were safe in the USA but my Mothers Ashkenazi family lost about 1000 people I think. I cannot cope with seeing even images of that evil Man Hitler we did nothing to deserve what he did to us :(

[@omargarcia2193]

"As James Carroll wrote in “Constantine’s Sword,” his 2001 study of the Church’s relationship with the Jews, “The Reichskonkordat effectively removed the German Catholic Church from any continued role of opposition to Hitler. More than that, as Hitler told his cabinet on July 14, it established a context that would be ‘especially significant in the urgent struggle against international Jewry.’” "

[@LauraGlorybelle]

Thank you for your lectures.

[@phinellahenderson745]

Just watched this on Holocaust Memorial Day 2019. Very thought-provoking and measured approach to an inconceivably horrific tragedy; academic in the best sense.

[@06retd22]

Hundreds of my family name were murdered and listed at Yad Vashem, surprisingly from Greece, after having fled the inquisition centuries earlier. I believe you are right a high degree of apathy or antipathy existed in the German population that allowed this to go on, or actively participated.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Sorry to hear that.

[@wallybonejengles5595]

I recently read that my last name (Botelho) appears in Castille as either Jews or Crypto-Jews. Dicionario Sefaradi De Sobrenomes was the source. (someone please inform me to its authenticity I am not literate in Portuguese.) My Great Great grandfather Manuel Botelho came from Azores to the US and fought in WW1. He and his son both registered for the WW2 draft and his son Mr. Edmund Botelho was sent off to the Atlantic. My ancestors were Catholics by the time they arrived in Azores and may have had no idea of their Sephardic ancestry. The covenant was broken long long ago and Edmund was likely ignorant that he was fighting for his own blood in WW2. I didnt lose any family. I am so fortunate for that. Millions of human beings like you and me were senselessly and barbarically destroyed and my family was only one well shot torpedo from joining them. ONE. The attempted genocide of the Jewish people must never be forgotten. The day Adolph Hitler shot himself in that wasted mind full of hate was a good day.

[@omargarcia2193]

Those from North Africa are Mizrahi: the Greek and Turkish regions Jewry are Sephardim.

[@sylviabendavid]

Thanks

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thank you for supporting the research!

[@omargarcia2193]

Arabic? Would those not be Mizrahi? Sephardim spoke Ladino yes or no?

[@davidabdielbensalem1911]

Shalom Aleichem. Peace be upon you.

[@davidabdielbensalem1911]

Boundlessly loyal to the country.

[@luiscecilio8807]

could we guard a minute of silence honouring those who suffered such horror? bastard G.....S

[@omargarcia2193]

Lets get it straight.

[@Cyberchic2]

How are Slovak (Slovakian) Jews Sephardic ?

[@omargarcia2193]

America is not a Democracy darnit!!!!!!! We are a Constitutional Republic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!