Remembering the the Jews of MENA on Holocaust Remembrance Day

On this Yom Ha’Shoah / International Holocaust Commemoration Day on January 27, we should contemplate what the fate of MENA Jewry would have been had German general Rommel won the Desert Campaign.

DESERT WANDERINGS: The Jewish Nation’s beginnings.

DESERT WANDERINGS: The Jewish Nation’s beginnings.

(photo credit: HAYTHAM SHTAYEH/FLASH90)

BySHIMON SAMUELS

JANUARY 26, 2021 20:02

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