19 Sep 2019
1944: Should We Bomb Auschwitz?
In 1944, two prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. They told the world of the horror of the Holocaust and raised one of the greatest moral questions of the 20th century.
Chief Rabbi's Emergency Council
Poignant postwar appeal for Britain’s Jewry to support orphaned Jewish children rescued from Europe.
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