![]() After more than 80 years, the Jewish people still have not recovered demographically from the body blow inflicted on them. But I have found that one statistic does help capture the enormity of the atrocity: So many Jews were killed by the Nazis that the global Jewish population is still lower today than it was in 1939. Entire centuries-old communities were exterminated. Two out of every three European Jews were murdered in the genocide. How to Explain the Holocaust in One Simple Statistic In discussions of the Holocaust, the numbers sometimes seem numbing. ![]() In this article, Daniella Greenbaum Davis writes about how her grandparents met in the ashes of a concentration camp and experienced their own exodus through the ritual of the Passover seder. ‘Once We Were Slaves, Now We Are Free’: The Passover Seder in Bergen-Belsen That Shaped My Family It took courage for individuals to confront the Holocaust as it unfolded, but it also took tremendous courage for victims to rebuild after their faith in humanity had been so badly battered. But he also had the benefit of getting to know the family that saved his own. Danny Gold, one of the great conflict-zone reporters of our time, has a similar personal background. Given this family background, I’ve unsurprisingly been fascinated by those people who decided to risk their lives and livelihoods for Jewish strangers. My mother’s mother was on the last train. Ten thousand Jewish children were saved by the Kindertransport initiative, which brought the youths to Great Britain. Please feel free to pass along your own selections to me at Man Who Saved My Grandfather Thousands of Jews were rescued from the Nazis by a Japanese diplomat named Chiune Sugihara, who went against the orders of his German-allied government to issue thousands of transit visas to desperate yeshiva students. My hope is that these selections will help you cut through the overwhelming amount of material available, and give you something more digestible than a history book but more substantive than a movie. In the meantime, I thought I would share some recommended reading for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is observed today. But I hope to be back to bombarding your inboxes in the weeks ahead. It’s just taking a little time to transition from my old position at The Atlantic to my new one. ![]() Let me assure you that I am still here, and that stories are in the works. In recent days, some of you have kindly sent messages checking up on me, wondering where the newsletter had gone. ![]()
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