Archive/File: people/a/abrams.alan/why-some-survived Last-Modified: 1999/11/26 "Examining the reasons why the Nazis enabled a half-million Jews to survive while they coldbloodedly slaughtered six million others leads to a myriad of ironies. Only a generation before the Holocaust, the nucleus of this group of surviving Jews - the Jews in mixed marriages - had been perceived by their fellow Jews as being the greatest threat to the continued existence of German Jewry. Interestingly enough, that same concern about intermarriages, albeit from the opposite perspective, was first expressed by German Christian church leaders as early as the eleventh century. With contemporary figures for intermarriage in the United States estimated at 40 percent, some American Jewish leaders have a similar fear. Orthodox Rabbi Naftali Halbertam of Brooklyn's World Jewish Genealogy Organization, in a January 1984 open letter, wrote "intermarriage has done to Our People [sic] the same damage our enemies sought to inflict four decades ago." That same month, a news report placed current European intermarriages even higher - at 50 percent!<12> 12. Michael Wolfson, an Israeli-born professor of history in Hamburg, West Germany, is the source of the European statistic. The _Jewish News_ (Detroit), 20 January 1984, p.12. (Abrams, 21) Work Cited Abrams, Alan. Special Treatment. Secaucus, N.J: Lyle Stuart Inc., 1985
Home ·
Site Map ·
What's New? ·
Search
Nizkor
© The Nizkor Project, 1991-2012
This site is intended for educational purposes to teach about the Holocaust and
to combat hatred.
Any statements or excerpts found on this site are for educational purposes only.
As part of these educational purposes, Nizkor may
include on this website materials, such as excerpts from the writings of racists and antisemites. Far from approving these writings, Nizkor condemns them and
provides them so that its readers can learn the nature and extent of hate and antisemitic discourse. Nizkor urges the readers of these pages to condemn racist
and hate speech in all of its forms and manifestations.