On the National Mall, American Jewry Became a Small Town in the Midst of a Big Country
The wonderful gathering.
November 16, 2023
Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer.
Although recognized for her efforts by Yad Vashem in 1966, Geertruida Wijsmuller (who died in 1978 at the age of eighty-two) has received little attention elsewhere for her extraordinary efforts to save German and Dutch Jewish children from the Nazis. Cari Shane writes:
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A fatal miscalculation.
Funding both sides of the Israel-Hamas war.
Benjamin of Tudela.
Geertruida Wijsmuller-Meijer.