##Latvia: Rescuing young Jews, 1938-39. @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
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🗓️ 15 August 2023
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##Latvia: Rescuing young Jews, 1938-39. @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1 @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/06/david-makofski-yorkshire-unsung-holocaust-hero/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBSI in the world with that is McCarter American greatness and Indiana |
| 0:10.2 | online arrives, the Dusty one, the Shapoe, the Bag of Tricks, the Bullwhip, we go immediately |
| 0:15.8 | to interpretations of the 20th century history of the persecution of Jewish nationals in |
| 0:22.8 | many countries. |
| 0:23.8 | That is Indiana, just when you thought you couldn't provide |
| 0:28.7 | more market up and more, you have on earth one more reason haven't you? |
| 0:33.2 | Absolutely, and this is a really interesting story because I went to visit the cemeteries |
| 0:39.6 | in Libya of the Jewish community and they have disappeared because they were destroyed |
| 0:44.5 | in the purposeful program by Muhammad Qaddafi and with the exception of one that was located |
| 0:51.0 | in an Italian run concentration camp from the time of the war and all the others were |
| 0:57.7 | bulldozed, including some that were very old, there were more than 30,000 Jews living |
| 1:02.6 | in Libya at the time and it was a very ancient community and the families had no place |
| 1:10.0 | to go to memorialize their loved ones and some of the cemeteries are really magnificent. |
| 1:16.1 | You see the remnants of them, you know how beautiful they must have been and how expansive |
| 1:21.8 | they were. |
| 1:25.0 | Nothing was there left of the Jewish gravestones, they emptied civil war in 2020 and thereafter |
| 1:32.4 | and they built parks and other things over the grounds. |
| 1:35.4 | In Rome's Prima Porto cemetery, they have now unveiled 16 marble plaques with 1800 names |
| 1:41.4 | of Libyan Jews who were buried in Libya, many more to be added to them, many Libyan Jews |
| 1:46.4 | led to Italy to escape the pogroms and the persecutions that broke out in North Africa |
| 1:52.2 | after Israel was established in the 6th day war and people don't know about the fact |
| 1:57.5 | that the Holocaust impacted Jews in North Africa as well but also the aftermath and the |
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