Polish Brethren

The term "genocide" did not exist before 1944. It is a very specific term, referring to violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). In 1944, a Polish-Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) sought to describe Nazi policies of systematic murder, including the destruction of the European Jews. He formed the word "genocide" by combining geno-, from the Greek word for race or tribe, with -cide, derived

When Prohibition became law in 1920, many Jews became bootleggers. Mob bosses such as Arnold Rothstein and Meyer Lansky operated in New York; Abner “Longy” Zwillman and Waxey Gordon worked in New Jersey; The Purple Gang was mainly based in Detroit. These mobsters and others made headlines more often than did Jewish federal Prohibition agents like Izzy Einstein and Moe Smith (Davis). Jewish gangsters found that the most money at the time could be found in the illegal alcohol business and so for varied

Jan & Antonina Zabinski: A Family That Defied the Nazis Corie Rosen California State University Channel Islands Summer 2017 Early Life and Education Antonina Zabinski was a Russian-born Pole born in 1908. Her father, Antoni Erdman, was an engineer who based his operations in St. Petersburg and “…travelled throughout Russia following his trade” (Ackerman 18). When Antonina was nine-years-old, her father and stepmother were shot by Bolshevik soldiers in the early days of the

Isaac Newton was an instrumental figure to the rise of modern science. Through his incredible mind, he was able to usher in a new age of science that revolved around logic and reason. He had redefined natural philosophy at the time and had enlightened the world with his mechanistic world view. However, Newton was not exactly as dedicated to logic and reason as many would like to think. Newton not only spent a significant amount of his time in the occult sciences such as alchemy, but was a deeply

In Marni Davis’s book Jews and Booze, she offers readers a well-researched study addressing Jewish immigrant acculturation. Data on Jews, booze, and prohibition is familiar to scholars who study the histories of New York City, Chicago, and New Jersey. Much to her credit, Davis also gathers information from southern locales such as Atlanta and California. In Robert Rockaway’s book But He Was Good to His Mother, he examined Jewish gangsters in the early twentieth century and came to the conclusion

16th century Sigulda Castle was under the rule of the Livonia Order and a small town was set up by the castle whose inhabitants were mostly craftsmen and merchants. Wars came along and the Sigulda Castle and town got destroyed during the time of the Polish-Swedish

PROPHECY AND SALVATION FROM BOOK Salvation does not depend on being right about every doctrine. The Webster dictionary defines doctrine as a belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a church, political party, or other group. It is absolutely true that the bible is not for individual interpretation, but the word of God. Yet it is also true, that with so many denominations, unfortunately, some pick and choose what they want to believe, and also create their own rules for the denomination, most

WHAT MOTIVATED “RIGHTEOUS GENTILES” TO SAVE JEWISH PEOPLE? WAS IT ALTRUISM , ECONOMIC GAIN OR OTHER REASONS ? BY JOSHUA GERSOHN INTRODUCTION During the Holocaust period (1939-1945) many Jewish lives were saved by non-Jews. These saviours were referred to as “Righteous Gentiles.” Many hundreds of these non-Jewish people have been honoured for their bravery and personal sacrifice, of which the German industrialist Oskar Schindler is probably the best known. We might never know exactly what

The current Czech Republic as we know it, was established in January of 1993 when Czechoslovakia split into two independent countries. The peaceful separation created the Czech Republic and an independent Slovakia. The history the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the once Czechoslovakia is rich and full of turmoil. History The indigenous population of Czechoslovakia were the Slavic tribes. These tribes were made up of 'West Slavs ' tribes who were the Poles, the Czechs and the Slovaks. The 'East

Seventh-day Adventist CHURCH MANUAL Revised 2005 17th Edition Published by the Secretariat General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Copyright © 2005 by the Secretariat, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Unless otherwise indicated, all Bible texts are from the King James Version. Scripture quotations marked NASB are from the New American Standard Bible, copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. Texts