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Mar 3, 2021 Daniel Sasson recalls Iraq’s plans to put all of the country’s 150,000 Jews into ghettos, mimicking the Nazis’ genocidal campaign in Europe. By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel “There is a need for this story to be known, with an emphasis on the connection between Nazi ghettos in Europe and the ghetto in Iraq,” said Iraqi-born Israeli Daniel Sasson recently. Now 85, Sasson wrote the recently published book “The Untold Story: The First and Last Ghetto in Iraq,” which portrays how the Jewish community in Baghdad was terrorized and slaughtered in 1941. Sasson explains ...

A Warwick University professor wrongly claimed a female Holocaust survivor had had a sexual lesbian relationship with a Nazi concentration camp guard, a research misconduct investigation has found. A panel convened by the university concluded there was 'insufficient evidence' to support historian Dr Anna Hájková's claims that a Jewish prisoner and an SS guard had had a sexual relationship. The extraordinary claim was made by Dr Hájková after testimonies by survivors of the camps and legal documents from the Nazi's trial led her to conclude an affair had occurred between the two women. Wh...

Oxford University Press has published a book by the Czech historian Anna Hájková on the functioning of the Terezín ghetto during WWII. The publication The Last Ghetto was written by Hájková using documents from 99 archives on three continents. It deals with the cultural, social, and gender organization of the ghetto and, according to the author, also offers a glimpse into the minds of people destined for transport to Nazi extermination camps. The name of the publication refers to the fact that Terezín was liberated on the night of May 8-9, 1945, as the last Jewish ghetto in Europe. Háj...