October 28th, 2018

                               "Our future is in the rear-view mirror and gaining on us."
                                                     

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PITTSBURGH — Armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle and at least three handguns, a man shouting anti-Semitic slurs opened fire inside a Pittsburgh synagogue Saturday morning, killing at least 11 congregants and wounding four police officers and two others, the authorities said.
In a rampage described as among the deadliest against the Jewish community in the United States, the assailant stormed into the Tree of Life Congregation, where worshipers had gathered in separate rooms to celebrate their faith, and shot indiscriminately into the crowd, shattering what had otherwise been a peaceful morning."  - Campbell Robertson, Christopher Mele, and Sabrina Tavernise/ 10-27-18/ New York Times


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​Today is the 73rd anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army.  1.1 million people, primarily Jewish, were gassed and incinerated by the Nazis in the prison camp. 
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Approximately six million Jews were systematically murdered in Nazi concentration camps in efficient factory-precision during World War ll, between 1939 and 1945.

Before the Holocaust, the pre-war Jewish population (and as early as 1933) in Europe was approximately 9.5 million.  By 2012, Europe's Jewish population was approximately 1.4 to 1.6 million. 

The world's Jewish population in 2016 was approximately 14.2 million people.  About half of the world's surviving Jews live in the U.S. 


- Sources: BBC/ NerLeElef-Judaism Online/ Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum web site/ Wikipedia/ Jewish Virtual Museum.


​    …“at least 3.3 million Soviet POWs died in Nazi custody,” as part of the overall 5.7 million POW deaths in WW-2; in the Pacific, the European, African, and other theaters.  “This figure represents a total of 57% of all Soviet POWs" that were in Nazi camps.  
    - Wikipedia




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