South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
Fresh evidence for the absolute reliability of God’s word is now enshrined in the truly amazing testimony of three courageous Jewish sisters. Their remarkable story – how they emerged as virtual skeletons from the Holocaust nightmare to play a key role in building modern Israel – is powerfully documented in […]
I have been immersed during recent months in a series of new books on the Holocaust. Fresh testimonies from people who experienced the sheer terror and trauma of those hellish days keep emerging into the cold light of day, even 77 years after the horror of the concentration camps was […]
Originally published in CBN News Seventy marches in 15 nations are taking place this year to honor the memory of the Holocaust and speak out against anti-Semitism. One of those took place in Texas recently, where more than 120 Jews and Christians gathered at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas […]
As we mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe, celebrations of victory are tempered by the fact that it cost 50 million lives, which puts the present coronavirus crisis in perspective. Among those were six million Jews who were cold-bloodedly murdered as the Nazis tried to […]
A 98-year-old Holocaust survivor, Elle Blumenthal, told a Cape Town gathering last night how she literally escaped from a Nazi death camp gas chamber when its doors, which had been closed already, were opened due to new orders coming through regarding the number of people to be gassed that day. […]
With the annual Holocaust Memorial Day (Sunday January 27) in view, it is worth being reminded not only of how many perished but also of those who escaped the jaws of Nazism – often miraculously. It is a little known fact that in spite of terrible persecution in Eastern Europe, […]
A dark shadow of imminent war hangs over Israel’s 70th anniversary celebrations, just as it had done at the nation’s re-birth in 1948. President Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran hastened the prospect of the rogue state taking out its frustration on Israel for striking its military […]
While many think the trauma of the Holocaust ended with the Nazis, that is not the case. The concentration camps became assembly centres for displaced persons (DPs) and didn’t close for another five years. A newly launched book by Simon Bloomberg, who led the Belsen DP Camp after World War […]
Originally published in CBN News A 102-year-old Holocaust survivor had thought his entire family had been killed during World War II until he met he recently meet his nephew. Eliahu Pietruszka had fled to the Soviet Union from Warsaw, Poland in 1939 as the war erupted. He was 24 at […]
Men and women who defied the bullies and risked their lives [notice]Tomorrow — January 27 — is Holocaust Memorial Day. Charles Gardner reflects on a rise in anti-Semitism today, and our response.[/notice] Seventy-two years after the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army on January 27 1945, Britain and other […]