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On any given afternoon, hundreds of visitors here patiently line up for selfies next to a brightly painted, 12-foot-high concrete buoy marking the southernmost point in the continental United States.

Just behind this landmark, a less obvious monument overlooks the Atlantic Ocean for a few days a year: a menorah erected during Hanukkah by Chabad Jewish Center of the Florida Keys & Key West. Billed as the nations southernmost menorah, the gimmick is just one way that Rabbi Yaakov Zucker attracts Jews among the 2.5 million tourists who flock to the Keys annually.

For a while, there was also a southernmost Christmas tree and then they stopped putting it there. But Ive continued my menorah tradition. People like these things, said Zucker, 49, who often cruises up and down Duval Street, the epicenter of Key Wests famous party strip, in a modified golf cart, chatting up Jews and trying to convince men to put on tefillin.

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Once Floridas most populous city in the 19th century, Key West today doesnt even rank in the states top 150. But among its 24,000 or so residents are about a thousand Jews, about one-third of whom are Israeli expats, according to Zucker. Another thousand or so Jews are scattered elsewhere in the Keys, mainly in island towns such as Islamorada, Key Largo, Marathon and Tavernier.

When I first came to Key West, I called my dad up and said, They must really love Jews here. Every store has a mezuzah, recalled Sam Kaufman, the vice mayor here and a regular at Chabad services.

That tradition dates back to the 1920s, when the local merchants association ruled that only people who resided permanently in Key West could operate businesses on Duval Street.

The Jews werent full-time residents because there was no rabbi and no kosher food. So they left on Thursday night by boat and came back on Sunday, Kaufman said. After that ruling, the Jews became full-time residents.

The Chabad center, housed in a former Lutheran church on Trinity Drive, is a relative newcomer to Key West. Jews have lived since 1886 in this laid-back fishing town nicknamed the Conch Republic, which has inspired hard-drinking celebrities from novelist Ernest Hemingway to songwriter Jimmy Buffett. Thats the year a massive fire destroyed Key Wests commercial district, creating opportunities for Yiddish-speaking peddlers and shopkeepers from New York, according to Arlo Haskells 2017 book, Jews of Key West: Smugglers, Cigar Makers and Revolutionaries (1823-1969).

In the 1890s, some of these early Jewish pioneers helped buy weapons for Jos Marts anti-Spanish revolution in Cuba, only 90 miles to the south. And in 1899 just two years after Theodor Herzls first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland the Federation of American Zionists opened a Key West branch to raise funds for an eventual Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Congregation Bnai Zion, a nonaffiliated synagogue with about 100 members, is the oldest synagogue in South Florida. Established in 1887, it occupies an entire city block along United Street, not far from its original location at the Sidney M. Aronovitz U.S. Courthouse, named after a prominent Jewish lawyer and third-generation Key West resident.

A lot of Jews come to Key West to disappear from the radar, said the synagogues Israeli-born rabbi, Shimon Dudai, 76. Most of the time they become family.

There can be a disconnect between the Israelis and local Jews, Dudai said.

Local Jews dont mix much with the Israelis, he said. When I first came here, I went to every store and met all the Israelis. I knew they were not the kind of people who would come to a place considered Reform. Thats the reason were not affiliated, although my congregation welcomes all streams of Judaism.

Meir Mergi, 42, is originally from the Haifa suburb of Kiryat Ata. Hes lived here for 20 years, selling T-shirts, other clothing and local souvenirs at his Duval Street shop.

I never planned to stay in America. It was supposed to be a three-month vacation, Mergi said. Key West is the best place to be if you want a quiet life. Im very happy here.

From April to June of 2020, as coronavirus infections spiked across South Florida, Key West and the other islands were closed off to nonresidents. Police blocked the Overseas Highway at the boundary with Miami-Dade County.

If you didnt show an ID that you lived in the Keys, you couldnt get in, said Zucker, who is also a chaplain with the Monroe County Sheriffs Department. To get back into town, I had to write our Israeli guests a letter that they were coming to see me.

These days, Kaufman is optimistic about the future. Crime is low and Key West is packed with visitors.

Theres pent-up demand for tourism, its a safe place and its drivable, Kaufman said. During spring break, hotel rooms were going for $1,200 a night, so were not really suffering.

In fact, some Jewish retirees moved to the Florida Keys during the pandemic to escape public health restrictions up north.

I must have gotten at least 30 phone calls from people wanting to move to the Keys from New York and Chicago, said Zucker, who hosted over 100 people at Chabads Passover seder this year. After coronavirus, they want to be off the grid. They dont want to be in big cities. People saw what happened, and nobody has insurance that some new variant wont happen again.

The congregations president, Joyce Peckman, who settled here in 2003 from New York, said that about half of the 170 member families have second homes elsewhere, with some of them spending only a few weeks a year in the Keys. The JCC once had a Hebrew school with 10 children, but they all grew up and moved away. More than half intermarried, she said.

If I had young children, I would not move here, Peckman said. The vibe here in the Upper Keys is very laid back. People came here for diving, fishing, relaxing and getting away from it all. But there are very few Jews, and if you have kids, you want them to be someplace where there are other Jewish kids.

Gili Sanouf, a 17-year-old senior at Key West High School, agrees. An Orthodox Jew, Sanouf had his bar mitzvah celebration at the local Chabad. He spends his after school hours selling T-shirts, fridge magnets, Mile Zero bottle openers, bathing suits and Christmas ornaments at Happy Rooster, the souvenir shop owned by his parents, who came here 20 years ago.

There are really no Jewish kids my age here. Theres only bars and drugs; its very limiting, the teenager said. After graduating, I want to go to Israel, join the army and focus on cybersecurity.

Sanouf brightens whenever the occasional Israeli tourist walks into his shop and he gets the chance to practice Hebrew. And nearly every day, non-Jewish tourists inquire about his kippah.

They ask me, Whats that thing on your head? he said. I explain to them that theres something above me, and that Im not the only thing that matters.

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Gold Standard:Israeli gymnast Artem Dolgopyatplaced firstin the mens floor routine at the Tokyo Olympics, winning Israels second-ever gold medal.

Still In It:Also in Tokyo, Israels national baseball teambeatMexico 12-5 the first Olympic win for an Israeli baseball team. Team Israel thenlostits next game, to South Korea, 11-1. The team will face the Dominican Republic in an elimination game on Tuesday.

Digital Drama:The Center for Countering Digital Hate and the Anti-Defamation Leagueboth released reports allegingthat social media companies are failing to stop the spread of antisemitic content acting on as few as one in six reported examples, according to one of the reports.

Teamwork:Hillel International and the ADLwill partneron several initiatives to proactively address the rise in antisemitic activity on campus.

Campus Beat:The George Washington Universitys Graduate School of Education and Human Developmentwill offera two-year, part-time degree program in Israel education, the first university in the country to offer such a program. The Marcus Foundation donated $2.7 million to fund the program.

Damage Control:A publicist for Mel Gibsonsaidthat the actors upcoming project Rothchild, a satire film based on a wealthy New York family, is not connected to the Rothschild family at the core of many antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Found History:Homeowners doing a renovation in Fort Worth, Texas,discovereda nearly century-old mezuzah on one of the houses doorposts and returned the item to the original owners descendants.

Community Response:The Champlain Towers South collapse wasacutely feltby the Jewish community of Puerto Rico, where several victims had grown up and still maintained ties.

Calling Offsides:Billionaire businessmanRoman Abramovich hassuedthe author of a recent book on Russian President Vladimir Putin for writing that Putin ordered Abramovich to buy Chelsea FC, an English Premier League soccer team, in a bid to infiltrate British society.

Facing Justice:A 100-year-old former Sachsenhausen concentration camp guard, who has not been publicly named, willgo on trialthis fall in Germany.

Investigation:The amount of ammonium nitrate that caused the deadly explosion in Beiruts port last yearwas a fractionof the amount delivered in 2013, raising concerns about the whereabouts of the remainder of the shipment and why the material, which can be used to make fertilizer or bombs, was left in an unsecure area.

Deal Debate:Talks between Iran and world powers in Viennaappear to have hit an impassefollowing the election of hardliner Ebrahim Raisi to the presidency and Tehrans accelerated efforts to advance its nuclear program.

Keep the Beat:Israel-based Orthodox Jewish rapper Nissim Black is in New York, where heheadlineda concert in Passaic, N.J., last week before traveling to Monsey for Shabbat.

Mazel Tov:The New York Timesspotlightsthe wedding of Mosheh Oinounou and Alex Sall, who had their first date at a Jewish Food Society event in Manhattan.

Transition:Rabbi Gideon Black was named the new chief executive officer of the New York region of NCSY.

Retrospective:AWashington Postobituarylooks at the life of Ruth Pearl who died last month at 85 who moved to the U.S. at the age of 5 following the 1941 Baghdad pogrom and spent her later years bringing awareness to the murder of her son, the journalist Daniel Pearl.

Remembering:Musician Chuck E. Weissdiedat 76. Nicky Langesfeld, 26, and Luis Sadovnic, 28, who met at the University of Florida and married in January, wereamong the victimsin the Surfside, Fla., condominium collapse.

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A view of the University of Iowa campus. The school was the site of a heated debate over antisemitism and anti-Zionism this year. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA.org)

By Ben Sales

Over the last year, Jewish college studentstook it upon themselves to combat antisemitismat their schools. Now, two major Jewish organizations are working together to play a stronger role in fighting antisemitism on campus.

Some of the student activists documented incidences of antisemitism at colleges nationwide, often submitted anonymously, while others have taken a confrontational tone on social media. With someportraying themselvesas the ideological successors to early Zionist activists, the students often argue that anti-Zionism and antisemitism overlap.

In a new partnership, Hillel International and the Anti-Defamation League are aiming to take a more traditional approach to the same issues one that they say will not always treat anti-Israel activity as antisemitism.

Hillel and the ADL will together create a college-level curriculum on antisemitism and jointly document antisemitic incidents on campuses in the United States. But not every student government resolution endorsing the movement to Boycott, Divest from and Sanction Israel, known as BDS, will wind up in the groups database.

Anti-Israel activism in and of itself is not antisemitism, an ADL spokesperson told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Situations vary widely with BDS, we will carefully evaluate each one and make a determination based on our criteria for antisemitism.

For example, the ADL spokesperson told JTA, a BDS resolution alone would not count as antisemitism, but if a student was excluded from the debate because he or she was Jewish, then it might be counted.

The Hillel-ADL partnership, which will begin in the coming academic year, follows a spike in reported antisemitic incidents on campus. In the school year that ended in 2021, the ADL tallied 244 antisemitic incidents on campuses nationwide, an increase from 181 the previous school year. Hillel has a presence on more than 550 campuses and says it serves more than 400,000 students.

Accusations of antisemitism on campus have received significant attention from large Jewish organizations for years. Some Jewish leaders have longsaidanti-Zionist activity on campus constitutes antisemitism, especially as a string of student governments endorsed BDS.

Hillel Internationalprohibits partnershipswith, and the hosting of, campus groups that support BDS. Anti-Zionist groups have at times targeted Hillel; last week, Students for Justice in Palestine at Rutgers Universitycriticizedthe schools Hillel in a statement endorsed by other campus groups.

In addition, the ADL has documentedwhite supremacist propaganda campaignson campuses nationwide.

Multiple national groups havefiled complaintswith the Department of Educations Office of Civil Rights based on campus antisemitism allegations. In 2019, President Donald Trumpsigned an executive ordermandating robust enforcement of civil rights protections for Jews on campus and including some anti-Israel activity in the definition of antisemitism. Pro-Palestinian activists said the order would have a chilling effect on free speech on campus.

The ADL and Hillel International plan to develop a curriculum about the history of antisemitism and how it manifests currently. They will also survey schools nationwide to provide a better picture of the state of antisemitism on campus, and will create a dedicated system to tally incidents of antisemitism at colleges and universities, including a portal for students to report incidents confidentially.

The ADL did not detail how it would verify whether confidentially submitted incidents actually occurred, beyond telling JTA they would be judged by themethodologythe group uses in its annual audit of antisemitic incidents. The methodology states that ADL carefully examines the credibility of all incidents, including obtaining independent verification when possible.

In recent months, the student activists have formed their own organizations to further their online activism, called the New Zionist Congress and Jewish on Campus. The New Zionist Congress hosts an online book club and discussions about Zionism, while Jewish on Campus records stories of college antisemitism on itsInstagram account, which has posted more than 400 times and has 32,000 followers.

The ADL said its partnership with Hillel would complement student activism and that the group will firmly support well-meaning student-led efforts to push back against antisemitism on campus.

The effort with Hillel is also the third partnership with an external organization that ADL has announced in the past two weeks. It recently launched a partnership to combat antisemitism with the Union for Reform Judaism, and last weekbegan an initiative with PayPalto research how extremists use online financial platforms.

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Editors Note: Jessica Caminker was part of JFS 100 Mensches Essay Contest a year ago, won, and was given a stipend to participate on the Havens Youth Advisory Board. She has written the attached essay about her experience.

As a result of my participation in Jewish Family Services 100 Mensches essay competition, I was offered the unique opportunity to apply for a position on a new Youth Advisory Board at Haven, a local comprehensive program for survivors of sexual assault and domestic abuse. Haven does incredibly important work, providing shelter, intervention services, counseling, advocacy education and more to thousands of people each year. These efforts make all the difference for those who take advantage of them and lay the foundation for a future in which they wont be necessary.

I found incredible meaning in the time I spent with Haven. Especially as a young woman beginning to navigate society as an individual for the first time, I feel very connected to the cause of eradicating intimate partner violence and helping heal those who have been affected by it.

The Youth Advisory Board certainly gave me the opportunity to assist in pursuing this goal, as well as deepened my appreciation for and understanding of the Jewish values that go hand in hand with its mission.

Although Haven is not a uniquely Jewish organization, the strides it takes to better the lives of others beautifully reflect values that Judaism holds closely, and my time spent on the board allowed me to personally involve myself in furthering many of these ideals.

The Jewish Family Service mission statement is: Inspired by the wisdom and values of Jewish tradition, we strengthen lives through compassionate service. As part of this mission statement, JFS also highlights and describes several significant examples of such Jewish values. Among them are chesed (compassion and kindness),tzedakah (justice) and tikkun olam (repairing the world).

These three concepts serve as a sort of algorithm for much of Havens work: When someone comes to Haven seeking help, they are welcomed immediately with overwhelming compassion in a clear expression of chesed.

Next, the organization takes steps toward securing justice for the individual seeking help. Through interventions, court advocacy, personal protection orders or whatever the situation requires, Haven pursues tzedakah on behalf of everyone it serves.

Finally, even once an individuals immediate needs have been met, Haven continues to provide them with longer-term care such as support groups and counseling, as well as hosting events for educational programming and youth outreach which attack the broader issue. In this way, both directly and indirectly, Haven sets out to repair the world.

The value that I found the most profound in Havens work, however, is that of Btzelem Elohim, viewing every human being equally and as they were created: in Gods image. All of Havens tasks, each with its own specific goals, serve to preserve and empower the humanity and dignity in each individual. In all the support and encouragement that Haven has to offer, the victims it serves are never victimized; Rather, they are reminded of their worth and fundamental importance as people. This elevates Haven to the next level of service: Not only does it help those in need, but it does so with grace, mindfulness and in true recognition of Gods image in everyone.

While I am grateful to have learned many lessons from this experience, my main takeaway is this: The more we can do to remind the world of the holiness found in every single human being, the better suited we will be to combat these difficult issues together going forward. Haven encouraged me to identify the inherent value in myself and in everyone I meet.

And although my personal involvement with Haven ends here, for now, I am confident this is a message that I will carry with me and aim to spread for the rest of my life. Thank you, Haven, and thank you, JFS!

Jessica Caminker was raised in Ann Arbor and West Bloomfield and graduated from the Frankel Jewish Academy with the class of 2021. She is eager to spend a gap year at Midreshet Lindenbaum in Jerusalem and continue her Jewish learning before returning to the Honors Program at the University of Michigan the following year.

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When Kitty Hart-Moxon, 97, was recently asked to choose one object that symbolised the horrors she survived at the hands of the Nazis in Auschwitz, Belsen, and on death marches, she had no doubts.

A glass container encasing the preserved tattooed numbers she had cut out of her own arm and also that of her mother, Rosa Lola, which she keeps in a cupboard at her home in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, is a shocking, tangible reminder.

My number was 39934 with a little triangle at the bottom, and my mothers was 39933, she said.

In postwar Britain, while training as a nurse and then qualifying as a radiographer, she was acutely conscious of people staring at the number, clearly visible in her short-sleeved uniform. One doctor remarked he supposed it was her boyfriends number that she couldnt remember. And, that just did something to me. I decided then and there its got to come off.

She was 25. I thought it is better to remove it, and put it in a specimen jar. It will be there forever, whereas I will be gone, she said. And later, after her mother died, she asked for her number to be cut out too.

In a video portrait for an upcoming exhibition by the Imperial War Museums (IWM), she appears, with her tattoos and alongside her grandson, Michael.

It was the story of my life, wasnt it? And I dont think anybody else has got theirs because most people died with them. But I thought it will now be there for ever. Its part of history. Its important.

The exhibition, Generations: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors, which opens at the IWM London on 6 August, brings together over 50 contemporary portraits of Holocaust survivors and their families taken in spring 2021.

Born in Poland, on the border with Germany and Czechoslovakia, Hart-Moxon and her mother survived the Lublin ghetto, many forced labour camps, Auschwitz, death marches and Bergen-Belsen before being liberated. She lost her teenage years, from the age of 12 to 18, along with her father, brother and many other relatives, to the Holocaust.

Photographer Simon Roberts has produced six video portraits of Holocaust survivors for the exhibition. Each incorporates the voice of a younger family member describing the legacy their relatives experience has had on their own lives and upbringing. These family members, often grandchildren, are revealed later in each video portrait standing alongside their relative, as is the object the survivor sees as particularly significant.

Roberts was inspired by a Guardian report of research at New Yorks Mount Sinai hospital on epigenetic inheritance. His video portraits will be exhibited alongside photographs, including three by the Duchess of Cambridge, on the theme of generations and the Holocaust.

Of Hart-Moxon, he said: I asked each of them if they would provide something that was of significance to them. So I didnt know anything about it until she presented it. Initially I wasnt really quite sure what exactly I was looking at. When there was that sudden realisation that this was actually something removed from her own body, it was quite shocking. But, of course, it was a shocking act to be numbered in that way, and so I think it is a very powerful emblem of what humans can do to other humans.

For her, it is an important reminder and, I suppose, she sees it as is something that will live beyond her, which is the importance of part of that story. And, obviously, it has an intensity she wants to convey about what she experienced.

For her this was one of the most powerful ways to convey the graphic nature of what she and her mother experienced.

He said Michael, who speaks of his grandmothers influence in the five-minute lifesize video, knew the numbers by heart. They are ingrained. He wasnt even looking at them when he was talking about them. But he knew the numbers.

Generations: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors, created in partnership with the Royal Photographic Society, Jewish News, the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust and Dangoor Education, opens at IWM London on 6 August.

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HENRICO, Va. -- 72 years ago, Halina Zimms wish came true.

I was born in Poland. Lodz, Poland, said Halina. Everybody wanted to come to America. That was something everyone dreamed of.

To reach the U.S., the immigrant living in Henrico endured a road less traveled -- and far more dangerous than most.

I used to watch movies of Shirley Temple all of the time, said Halina.

But unlike Hollywood, the 93-year-olds remarkable tale is true.

When she was just 11, Halina, her parents, and two sisters made a life-or-death decision and fled their home.

In 1939, when the Germans marched into Poland, things changed completely, explained Halina.

As a Jewish family, they were being hunted.

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Rumors were going around that the Germans were killing Jews and killing people. People didnt believe it. Nobody believes it, said Halina.

The family lived in a one-room house for two years.

A day was like a month because it was so long, said Halina. Very Scary. Very Scary.

But eventually, the Nazis caught up. Halina knew she had to flee, and she bid farewell to her parents.

That was the worst experience saying goodbye to them. Because I would never see them again, I knew that, said Halina.

With the help of a mother in the village, Halina assumed the identity of her daughter.

She was a wonderful, wonderful Christian woman. If it werent for her, we wouldnt be here, Halina said.

Using an official birth certificate and identification papers, Halina Zimm became Wanda Kazuzick.

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For two years, the teen worked as a servant for a wealthy Polish couple in Warsaw, where some were skeptical of Halina.

Ill never forget his words. Get up, and youre a Jew. And you know what we do to Jewish People, said Halina. Youre going to be shot.

War was raging around them.

You could hear the fighting and machine guns and all of that. Then everything suddenly stops, said Halina.

Eventually, Halina escaped again she was 15.

I learned very quickly how to survive, said Halina.

By the wars end, Halina walked for weeks back home. She yearned to see her family -- a reunion with her sisters three years in the making.

Her parents were gone. They perished in the concentration camp at Treblinka.

It was a very dark time in history. Very difficult time in history, Halina said.

In 1949, Halina and her husband immigrated to the United States, settling in Richmond.

"Its been such a long time, said Halina, holding old photographs. Things come back to you when you look at those things.

Halina said her story is too important not to share.

A lot of people who came to this country didnt want to talk about it because it was too painful to talk about it. MMm Mmm. Not me, she said.

She accepts to speak at high schools and service groups.

As long as they ask me. As long as they ask me. I could never say no, said Halina.

Crowds are exposed to an extraordinary history lesson.

They listen. They can relate because Im trying to be honest with them, said Halina.

As a child, Halina Zimm chose a road less traveled to survive.

I was young. I was always going places, said Halina.

In her golden years, this senior is taking you on a journey to remember.

Ive seen so much hate in my life, said Halina. Hate is wrong. It can destroy you. You can never be happy if you have hate in your heart.

Greg McQuade at WTVR first reported this story.

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More than seven decades after the Nazi extermination of thousands of Roma, 2 August needs to be a reminder that discrimination against Roma and Travellers is far from over and anti-Gypsyism must be fought at all levels, said John Warmisham, Congress Rapporteur on Roma, on the annual Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, on 2 August 2021.

Local and regional governments, in coordination with other levels, need to acknowledge the grim realities of Roma and Travellers across the continent and tackle their systematic marginalisation. Covid-19 recovery strategies are an extraordinary opportunity to engage those left behind, including Roma and Travellers, added John Warmisham.

The Congress of Local and Regional Authorities has launched several initiatives to promote the integration of Roma and combat prejudice. It has published the Human Rights Handbook for Local and Regional Authorities, including a chapter on Roma rights, as well as the European Alliance of Cities and Regions for Roma Inclusion. Congress has also adopted a Declaration against Anti-Gypsyism, providing local and regional elected representatives with the opportunity to take a stand against discrimination towards Roma. Every two years the Congress also awards the Dosta! Prize to municipalities that have implemented innovative initiatives for Roma inclusion.

On 2 August, we commemorate the genocide perpetrated against the Roma in the Second World War, during which it is estimated that between 220 000 and 500 000 Roma and Sintis, representing between a quarter and half of their entire population at the time, were murdered by the Nazis and their allies.

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Steven Frank holds the plain aluminium cooking pot with reverence, undoing the side clips that fasten the lid. Battered, utilitarian, unremarkable, you wouldnt look at it twice in a junk shop. Yet its story and its survival are matters of wonder. It is perhaps the most precious relic of his past and one of the most poignant of the Holocaust.

In this pot, Franks English-born mother would store bits of bread she had bartered in the disease-ridden transit camp of Theresienstadt in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. When the pot was about a quarter full, which might take weeks, Beatrix Frank would add hot water to make a sort of slop and feed this to her three starving sons.

It was a bit like the consistency of wallpaper paste, says Frank, a Dutch-Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, now 85. We had one spoon and we took turns till the pot was empty. My mother must have been starving, too, but I never saw her take a spoonful herself. Other children, just as hungry and weak as we were, looked on but we didnt care about them because hunger is an unbelievably selfish thing.

Typhus and other diseases were raging through the overcrowded camp, killing thousands. Realising that the best way to keep typhus at bay was cleanliness, this resourceful woman had volunteered to work in the hospital laundry the only place with regular hot water so she could secretly wash herself and her sons. She would do other prisoners washing in return for crusts that went into the bread porridge.

In a striking photograph taken by the Duchess of Cambridge for a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, Steven Frank is shown with the cooking pan on his lap, alongside two of his granddaughters. The exhibition, which aims to celebrate the full lives Holocaust survivors have led since arriving in Britain in the 1940s, features more than 50 contemporary portraits by 13 British photographers, including the duchess, who is patron of the Royal Photographic Society (an exhibition partner), and a respected photographer in her own right. Besides Frank, her other subject was Yvonne Bernstein, 84, who was hidden in France in the care of her aunt and uncle.

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JERUSALEM - Israel has become the first country to distribute a third dose of COVID vaccine, offering the extra jab to anyone over 60. Israeli health experts say the effectiveness of the current vaccine declines with time and the third shot will serve as a booster. The move comes as virus rates in Israel are on the increase.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet announced the decision to offer a third vaccine dose to anyone over 60 who received their last shot at least five months ago.

The decision was based on considerable research and analysis as well as the rise and risk of the variant delta wave. Israel has already vaccinated 2,000 immuno-suppressed people with a third dose with no severe adverse events and now were rolling out a national third dose campaign, said Bennet.

An Israeli study showed effectiveness of the COVID vaccine declined from 95% to 80% or even less against the delta variant. Neither the U.S. nor the EU has yet recommended a third shot, but most Israeli doctors say they do not believe it will do any harm.

Dr. Ashraf Shalmon of the Israeli Health Ministry said it is not yet clear how long even a third vaccine will provide protection.

It seems that vaccines are not sufficient to give a very high protective level for a very long time without maybe having a third dose. Now a third dose could create another booster time which serves for six months, one year or it could behave like we see in some types of vaccines like hepatitis vaccines or papilloma vaccines where a third dose usually creates a long-lasting immunity, said Dr. Shalmon.

Israel has also brought back its green pass regulations, meaning residents will have to show proof of immunization or a negative coronavirus test to enter many public places - including concerts, restaurants and gyms.

The decisions come as infection rates in Israel continue to rise, with more than 2,000 new cases reported each day. The percentage of COVID tests coming back positive is now more than three percent, double the rate of just a few weeks ago.

Israel was a leader in the vaccination campaign, and more than 60 percent of the population has received at least one dose. Now Israelis hope a third dose will enable them to deal with the delta variant.

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Continued from the House of Rothschild article.

In 1836 Nathan Rothschild, head of the House of Rothschild, died. The headship was passed on to his younger brother, James, by a vote of all the brothers. In 1830 the signs of masonic-fueled revolution began to appear again. Metternichs peace of the world (they always call imperialism peace) was being threatened. A new king was set up in France, the House of Orange was dethroned in the Netherlands.

The fires of revolution were spreading through the masonic network and Metternich began to lose his grip on Europe. The Revolution of 1848 in France de-throned yet another royal house. James went along with the masonic agenda and financed this revolution, even though he was a friend of the court. The revolution marked the end of Metternichs Age and that same year insurrectors chased him and Salomon out of Austria.

Neither returned, but a Vienna House had already been established, others would carry it on, under the direction of Salomons son, Anselm. Metternichs descendants are still close to the House of Rothschild. After this, the power of the Rothschilds weakened. By 1855 four brothers were dead, except James.

Napoleon III was now in power in France and his advisors were the enemies of James. But Rothschild ingenuity came through again when James got Napoleon Ill to marry a Rothschild agent. James died in 1868 and the family headship went to Alphonse, his son, a suave, socially elite man.

Three cousins now ran the show Alphonse (18271905) of the French House, Lionel (18081879) of the English House and Anselm (18031874) of the Vienna House The New Trinity.

Anselm set up a new firm, Creditanstalt in Vienna and the three banded together to attack and combat Credit Mobilier (a French enemy bank) until it collapsed. After the fall of Frances Credit Mobilier, Napoleon III stepped onto the Rothschild bandwagon.

Alphonse was powerful, he had access to men like Napoleon III and Bismark of Prussia. The Illuminati decided to get rid of Napoleon III, so English Prime Minister Gladstone (friend of the Rothschilds) set things up so that Prussia and France would go to war.

Napoleon III proceeded to attack Prussia and Bismark responded in a flurry, defeating France and banishing Napoleon III from the throne. The war indemnities were paid to Bismark (who had a dislike for Alphonse) through the Rothschilds.

Alphonse married another Rothschild, but had the Contessa de Castiglione as his mistress. She was a beautiful woman, a Marylin Monroe of her day, and she was also the mistress of his brother Gustave Rothschild and Napoleon III.

Anselm was a shrewd playboy and in 1861 he became a member of the Austrian Imperial House of Lords. Anselm had many mistresses and his wife left him because of his adultery.

Lionel of the English House, inherited New Court in 1836. He financed Englands Crimean War, Cecil Rhodes South African kingdom, vast copper and nitrate mines and the Suez Canal. Lionels younger brother, Anthony, was knighted by the Queen.

Another brother, Nathaniel, bought the renowned Mouton vineyards near Bordeaux. Lionel was a good friend of Prime Ministers Disraeli (who was controlled by Rothschild money) and Gladstone. He also probably paid for Lord John Russells election as Prime Minister.

In 1858, Lionel became the first Jew in the House of Commons. After 11 tries, the British Parliament gave in and allowed Rothschild to take his seat. Not a single significant political move by Lionel was recorded during his stay in Parliament. He was a member for 15 years.

After Amschel of the House of Frankfurt died without an heir, two of Carl of Italys sons came to take over the business. But they also remained heirless, bearing only daughters. When the last brother died in 1900, the Frankfurt bank was liquidated.

I believe they did not try to continue the original bank because they knew that Germany was about to be caught up in the turmoil of the world wars, they eventually set up another Frankfurt bank after Germanys turmoil.

The one son of Carl who had stayed in Naples produced only daughters and when Geribaldis Red Shirts unified Italy, this remaining son (out of character for a Rothschild) chose not to accommodate the new powers and moved to France. Thus ended the Italian branch.

The Rothschild relationship to the Jews is deceiving. The family stance is publicized as pro-Jewish, and they have given abundant charity to Jewish causes. But their support of the Jewish race has, in most cases, been used for the sole purpose of controlling the direction and profiting from the Jews.

The Rothschilds have been described as the Royal Family of the Jews. But what kind of Judaism do the Rothschilds support? Do they support the Orthodox Jews who believe in the Old Testament and are waiting for the return of the messiah? No. Do they support Messianic Jews who believe Jesus Christ was the messiah who came to save all men? No.

The Rothschilds support those Jews who have fallen prey to the deceptive gnostic and occultic teachings of Cabalism and in turn support the Illuminati controlled Zionist movement. Not all Zionists are part of the conspiracy, but their leaders are, and the ultimate leaders of the Zionists have been the Rothschilds.

I am disappointed by researchers, who automatically coin the conspiracy a Jewish one. I believe that there are people who call themselves Christians, who are part of the conspiracy, at the same time there are people who call themselves Jews, who are part of the conspiracy. To call the conspiracy Jewish is ignorant.

The Rothschilds have been involved in Cabalism, Jewish Sabbatism and Frankism, all of which are involved in witchcraft. This belief is strengthened by the Rothschilds use of the occultic Seal of Solomon as a family symbol.

The city in which the Rothschilds originated, Frankfurt, was deeply anti-Semitic. The Rothschilds were constantly striving to overcome the boundaries put on them because of their culture. It is very likely this berthed a bitterness in their hearts towards Christian society.

This bitterness and the need to facilitate more profit and power were most likely the reasons why they accepted the idea of a Jewish state. I will assume that the readers understand that the Zionism / restoration of Israel concept is an unbiblical sham.

The following quote will help you understand the Rothschild attitude towards the Jews, the first principle of the House of Rothschild was to amass wealth and the liberation of the Jewish race, from oppressive restrictions, contributed indirectly to this end.

There are 3 Baron Edmond Rothschilds and they have all been involved with the nation of Israel. To avoid confusion I will number them:-

Edmond #1 (1845-1934) House of France. Son of James and brother of Alphonse.

Edmund #2 Eddie Leopold (19162009) House of England. Son of Lionel Nathan and great, great grandson of the infamous Nathan Rothschild.

Edmond #3 Adolphe Jules Jacques Maurice (19261997) House of France. Son of Maurice (the black sheep!) and grandson of Edmond #1.

The story begins with Edmond #1, the Father of Israel. During the Crimean War (1853-1856) which was funded by the Rothschilds, the small Jewish community in Jerusalem became cut off from all outside support.

This resulted in semi-starvation. Edmonds #1 father, James, set up the James Mayer de Rothschild Hospital in Jerusalem in response to this problem. Edmond #1 picked up his fathers interest in Palestine.

When the Russian Jews fled the Czars pogroms in the 1880s, Edmond #1 began to finance the Russian Jews attempts to establish colonies in Palestine. It is clear that Edmond #1 was a fan of Zionism, his charities were not only aiding the persecuted, but were promoting the concept of a return to the homeland.

The Barons money drained swamps, dug wells and built houses. It founded industries, ranging from scent factories, to glass works, from wine cellars to bottle manufacturers. The Baron established his own administration in Palestine and his overseers, dictated to the farmers exactly what crops were to be grown and where.

The man who set up the first Zionist Congress was Theodor Herzl. He attempted to get the support for his plans to restore the Jewish state, from the Rothschilds, but many members of the family were opposed to Zionism. One Rothschild told Herzl he was an Englishman and proposed to remain one.

Edmond #1, on the other hand, was leading a Rothschild plan, similar to Herzls, that slowly created a Jewish state controlled by the family. Edmond #1 did not oppose Zionism, in fact he supported Herzls cause, yet he felt Herzls plans should not be implemented so soon, they were to be accomplished quietly, stealthily, not by shouting from the roof-tops.

The Baron continued to support his own colonies, though Edmond #1 did not want Herzl in control. Later, after Herzl had died and was no longer a threat, Edmond #1 went right on pouring money into the Jewish homeland. Edmond #1 had a tight-fisted control of the colonies.

In 1901 the Jews in Palestine sent a delegation to the Baron who told him if you wish to save the Yishuv (the 1882 Jewish settlement) first take your hands from it and allow the colonists to have the possibility of correcting for themselves, whatever needs correcting.

This upset the Baron, who replied: I created the Yishuv, I alone. Therefore no men, neither colonists nor organizations, have the right to interfere in my plans. Herzl was succeeded as President of World Zionism by David Wolffsohn (Pres. 1905-1911).

Wolffsohn got the full support of the Baron. Wolffsohns successor was Otto Warburg (Pres. 1911-1921). Chaim Azriel Weizmann (1874-1952) was a Zionist leader and Israeli statesman, who served as president (1921-1931 & 1935-1946) of the Zionist Organization and later as the first president of Israel in 1949.

The Baron Rothschild told Weizmann be would finance a Hebrew University in Palestine. With Weizmanns appearance on the scene, the Baron became closer to Zionism. In 1914 Edmond #1 traveled to Palestine and could scarcely believe his eyes.

Tel Aviv had become a city and his miserable windswept colonies had been transformed into lush gardens. His journey to Palestine was hailed as the prince returning to his people. Later the Baron Rothschild told Weizmann, Without me Zionism would not have succeeded, but without Zionism my work would have been struck to death.

Another Rothschild embraced Zionism through Weizmann Lionel Walter (18681937) the second Lord Rothschild (apparently this upset some relations). The Balfour declaration, which declared Englands support of the creation of a Jewish homeland, was addressed to Lord Rothschild II.

Lord Rothschild also received the documents of support from the League of Nations. Charles T Russell sent a letter to Lord Rothschild that praised him for his work towards a Jewish homeland. After World War I, Britain ruled Palestine and the Rothschilds ruled Britain.

Also, a bulk of unpaid debts to the Rothschilds, by the failed Ottoman Empire, gave the family more control over Palestine.

Then came Hitler. According to Walter Langer, a psychoanalyst who wrote the book The Mind of Adolf Hitler, the demonic German leader was a grandson of a Rothschild.

Adolfs father, AIois Hitler, was the illegitimate son of Maria Anna Schicklgruber. It was generally supposed that the father of Alois Hitler was Johann Georg Hiedler. There are some people who seriously doubt that Johann Georg Hiedler was the father of Alois.

An Austrian document was supposedly prepared that proved Maria Anna Schicklgruber was living in Vienna at the time she conceived. At that time she was employed as a servant in the home of a Baron Rothschild.

As soon as the family discovered her pregnancy she was sent back to her home, where Alois was born. It is believed that Hitler (who was totally created by Satans Empire) attacked Austria first, in order to destroy the Austrian records that proved his Jewish ancestry.

As Hitlers demonic attack on the Jews progressed, one would imagine that the Zionists would come to the rescue and offer Palestine as a safe haven. Not so. Many European countries shut their doors to the Jews, including the Palestine colonies.

The Zionist controlled immigration laws in Palestine were very strict and it was near impossible to escape to the Jewish homeland. In fact, the Zionists refused to admit there was a Holocaust going on, although evidence points to them knowing!

I suppose in their minds it was OK to sacrifice a great number of Jewish lives, in order to promote the idea of a Jewish state. To the elite the Holocaust was like shooting dead a herd of cattle to receive the insurance payment.

When the Zionist Organization, against the natural impulses of the whole Jewish people, decided to do business with Hitler, to trade German goods against the wealth of German Jewry, to flood the Palestine market with German products and thus make a mockery of the boycott against German-made articles, they found llttle opposition in the Jewish National Homeland and least of all among its aristocracy the so-called Kibutniks.

Hitler forced the Jews to wear the six-pointed star as a sign of shame. It was this same symbol that the Rothschilds were named after and the same symbol that the Zionists promoted as a symbol of Jewish national identity. Do you see the contradiction?

Spiritually, a parallel can be seen in the rituals to Ashteroth and Moloch, where the victims were burned as sacrifices to these false gods. Were the victims of the Nazis someones sacrificial offerings? I believe they were.

Unfortunately, few Jews will tolerate a discussion of this subject. After World War II, the UN, spurred on by the IllumInati, created horrors against the Jews, granting Israel its statehood.

Then it progressed through the magic arts, witchcraft (including Arab magicians, Druids, witches and Satanists), astrology, through the Cabala to Isaac Luria, a Cabalist, in the 16th century, to Mayer Amschel Bauer, who changed his name to this symbol, to Zionism, to the Knesset of the new State of Israel.

Simply stated, Zionism (with Rothschild support) promotes a New World Order.

The Rothschild control of Israel is immense. Edmond #1 established Trusts that make massive donations to Israel. Biographer Virginia Cowles explains: Originally the principle Trust was known as Pica Palestine Jewish Colonization Association (est 1924) but when it became clear, after the establishment of the State of Israel, that colonization would be handled by the Government, its functions were changed. Edmonds son, James, renamed it.

When James died in 1957 his widow, Dollie, assumed the presidency which she still holds. For many years she has been powerfully assisted by Lord Victor Rothschild and recently she has enlisted the help of the latters son, Lord Jacob. The Trust knows no boundaries. In the 1960s it carried out James wishes by providing money for the Knesset, the new Parliament building in Jerusalem.

Today its beneficiaries range from universities, hospitals and public libraries to archaeological digs, from the board of the Weizmann Scientific Institute to the organizers of Instructional Television.

The satanic Rothschilds simply dominate Israel. The Rothschilds help Satans Empire control the worlds resources, the worlds nations and the worlds religions. They are an institution in the conspiracy and, if one looks carefully, the path of their destructive reign can be followed through the history of the past 3 centuries.

This article will be continued in another article, where It will discuss the House of Rothschild in the 19th and 20th Century.

Main Reference :- https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/FC/FC2F5371043C48FDD95AEDE7B8A49624_Springmeier.-.Bloodlines.of.the.Illuminati.R.pdf

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