When did the holocaust end?
The Holocaust (also called Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the period from January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany, to May 8, 1945 (VE Day), when the war in Europe ended. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/…/history.
) A Syrian describes his first experience with anti-Semitism I was eleven years old in 1959. We were living in a big city in Syria. I used to play with some good boys from good families and our parents kept warning not to play with certain boys, because their family had a bad reputation. It was a rich family that belonged to a very strong Bedouin tribe that was well known as arms and drug smugglers. These neighborhood street toughs used to make regular journeys to the Jewish district in the city every Saturday evening, to disturb prayers in the synagogues there. They turned the chairs upside down and stole the small hats (kippot) off the heads of the Jewish kids. The little villains were sometimes armed with small rocks and wood sticks. They encouraged my brother and me to go with them. I hesitated for a while. I asked them,” What did they do to you?” They said, “They are Jews.” We were afraid, but we agreed to go with them because otherwise they would label us as “chicken.” When we go
May 6, 2003 Aram (Click here for Arabic Version ) A Syrian describes his first experience with anti-Semitism I was eleven years old in 1959. We were living in a big city in Syria. I used to play with some good boys from good families and our parents kept warning not to play with certain boys, because their family had a bad reputation. It was a rich family that belonged to a very strong Bedouin tribe that was well known as arms and drug smugglers. These neighborhood street toughs used to make regular journeys to the Jewish district in the city every Saturday evening, to disturb prayers in the synagogues there. They turned the chairs upside down and stole the small hats (kippot) off the heads of the Jewish kids. The little villains were sometimes armed with small rocks and wood sticks. They encouraged my brother and me to go with them. I hesitated for a while. I asked them, What did they do to you? They said, They are Jews. We were afraid, but we agreed to go with them because otherwise
