Myra Adams: Lessons From the Holocaust – Why and How You Should Help Persecuted Christians

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RedState: Myra Adams: Lessons From the Holocaust – Why and How You Should Help Persecuted Christians

By: Myra Adams (Diary) | September 17th, 2015 at 08:31 AM

Re-posted from WND.com

 

Between the years 1939-1945, when Europe was embroiled in World War II, European Jews were systematically murdered in Nazi death camps during what is now commonly referred to as the Holocaust.

 

In 1933, the American Jewish Yearbook estimated there were 9.5 million Jews living in Europe. By the end of World War II, two-thirds of them had been extinguished.

 

Why American Jews did not rise up and demand more action to help their brethren during the Holocaust has remained a sensitive question for decades especially among Jewish baby boomers.

 

In 2002, Susan D. Glazer, writing for My Jewish Learning suggested the following reasons:

 

“Recently, American Jewry has been criticized for not continually or strongly pushing for rescue efforts. During the war, however, organized American Jewry did press for rescue in a variety of ways but, in general, rescue was not a high priority for major American Jewish organizations American Jewry feared that agitation for rescue would exacerbate domestic anti-Semitism or compromise