Sunday, June 17, 2012

Blessed Are the Merciful

Sir Martin Gilbert, CBE, famed for his monumental biography of Winston Churchill among other distinguished works, speaks at the University of California-San Diego a few years back, sharing stories of "decency, courage, and hope amid the dark night of the Holocaust." 



It's not a formal lecture, but rather, one specific example after another.  I sat here riveted the entire time; perhaps you will too.

Jews driven from the Warsaw Ghetto by Nazi troops, 1943

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