The Jewish Holocaust, an Islamic perspective.
The Holocaust, crimes against humanity.
The oppression against Jews continued throughout antiquity, at the ends of the Assyrians, Babylon and Romans,
who massacred and exiled Jews and destroyed their temples and cities.
In medieval times, Jews were once again targeted, labeled, discriminated against and chased away from wherever they took shelter.
And during World War II and the years leading up to it, many innocent Jews were subjected to great barbarity and genocide.
Millions of Jewish civilians were heavily tortured and suppressed in the Holocaust
that went down in history as an example of the ruthless dimensions of barbarity.
This is one of the gravest tragedies in history. Yet many countries were apathetic and indifferent.
It took some time for the United States to take action.
The United Kingdom was aware of what was happening and nevertheless followed a policy that emboldened Hitler.
Today the picture is different. In the West, the Holocaust has achieved the status of being affirmed in legislation of many countries.
However, this is not the same case in the Muslim world today.
In a wide geography of the Islamic world, there is indifference against the Holocaust,
which has resulted from ignorance or a one-sided propaganda.
As Muslims, it is very important to make the Islamic world aware of the reality of this unprecedented tragedy,
that is, the Holocaust of the Jewish people.
Today it is critical to revive the tenets of Islam that require upholding justice,
protecting the oppressed and showing mercy and compassion towards the innocent.
The lack of information on how dreadfully the Jews were massacred in concentration camps and gas chambers during the Holocaust,
leave many Muslims unaware and indifferent to this awful brutality.
So, it is upon us, Muslims, to put the facts of history to light on this historical crime against humanity.
The people's struggle or hatred between each other is being supported by certain interests.
It is a small, useless international country, that the people who have fought each other against each other,
who do not want, to come to calm down.
It is the people that everywhere and nobody is at home,
who have no one place on the ground, on which they are grown,
But today they live in Berlin, tomorrow in Brussels, tomorrow in Paris or in Prague or in Wien or London and they feel everyone at home.
They are the only ones who are really as international elements to speak, because they can all their own jobs.
The Nazis targeted the gypsies, the mentally and physically handicapped, Poles and Slavs as well as the Jews for extermination.
From 1941 to 1945, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime systematically repressed large sections of the society and regarded them as enemies of the regime.
Estimated 12 million people lost their lives as a result of the Nazi massacres of civilians.
Of these, 6 million were Jews, up to 750,000 gypsies and the remaining Slavs living in countries like Poland, the Ukraine, Russia and Yugoslavia.
The total number of those who died in World War II is a staggering 55 million.
And this includes both military and civilian casualties.
In the face of such atrocity and facts, it is impossible to deny the Holocaust that remains as one of the most evil lawlessness and villainy in the history of mankind.
Nazi propaganda against the Jews.
The Holocaust did not occur in Evakuum.
It was predicated upon a foundation of antisemitic lives and occurrences whose legacy remains to this day.
Hitler used his ideological propaganda method systematically at every occasion.
Consequently, before the systematic genocide of the Jews by the Nazis, the German society was brainwashed with hatred and hostility against them.
Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people, Adolf Hitler wrote in his book Mein Kampf in 1926.
He advocated the use of propaganda in order to spread hatred against the Jews and other minority groups.
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Hitler established a Reich ministry of public enlightenment and propaganda headed by Joseph Goebbels.
The aim of this black propaganda machine was to spread throughout Germany the enmity against the Jews and other minority groups that were targeted, the undesirables as they were coined.
Protesters
The image of Jesus of the Háb mixes
Even before coming to power, and because of the brainwashing of the German people against the Jews,
the Nazis, street gangs, known as the SA Stormtroopers, had already staged attacks on Jewish homes and businesses.
Once the Nazis came to power with Hitler's directives, the SA initiated full-scale attacks on the Jews,
in anyone or anything that was Jewish or belonged to the Jews.
An elderly Jew walking down the street or a little Jewish child on the way to school
could easily be assaulted by the brutal Nazi gangs without any questions being asked.
The Nazis also initiated a boycott aimed at Jewish shops and businesses.
All over Germany went up postures portraying the Jews as terrible and ugly monsters and carrying slogans reading,
Don't Buy Jewish Goods.
In September that same year, a law was passed prohibiting Jews from owing lands.
In November, Jews were banned from being newspaper editors.
Further laws were passed in 1934, excluding Jews from trade unions and health insurance,
banning them from working as lawyers or judges.
In 1935, all Jews were expelled from the army.
Under the Nürnberg laws of 1935, Jews were no longer able to work in many areas of German society.
Such prohibitions extended to social life as well by forbidding Jews from marrying Germans.
In 1937, Jews were no longer permitted to be teachers, doctors or dentists.
Under cruel pretext date, they will physically or spiritually poison the German people.
In 1940, the anti-Semitic film The Eternal Jew was screened in movie theaters all over Germany.
Foreign from us Europeans, born of totally different racial elements.
They differ from us in body and above all in soul.
In schools, teachers warned their students of the so-called Jewish menace.
And during lessons, Jews were wickedly insulted and maligned.
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It's not a secret that Nazi Germany focused its attention on earning the support of some Muslim leaders as well.
during the Second World War.
For this end, they employed similar propaganda tactics
in some countries around the Middle East.
Radio Berlin was started Arabic and Persian radio broadcasts
with the aim to create hostility against Jews.
The chain of events that led to the final solution.
If you want to destroy the people again in a world war,
then the result will not be the Bolshevization of the earth
and thus the victory of Judaism,
but the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe.
The war years and the start of the genocide on March 15, 1936,
Nazi armies invaded Czechoslovakia.
On September 1, they invaded Poland.
Great Britain and France declared war,
and World War II had begun.
The invasion of Poland brought a new dimension
to the twisted Nazi ideas known as the Jewish problem.
In the areas occupied by Nazi Germany,
in random Warsaw, Lublin, and Krakow,
the Nazis confined the Jews to ghettos,
always in the poorest areas of the neighborhoods
with no infrastructure,
in dilapidated buildings with about 10 people in every room,
and deported the Jews
to newly constructed forced labor and concentration camps.
All Jews were forced to wear
yellow stars of David on their clothes
so they could be immediately identified.
It was now easy to mark, single out, and target the Jews.
Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Gestapo, was so brutal
that he was coined the Butcher of Prague.
He gave orders for the SS special action units,
death squads, mobile killing units,
known as Einsatzgruppen A, B, C, D,
to find every Jew in the occupied territories.
Thus began the manic-obsessive Nazi drive to comb Europe,
intercept every Jew, deport him, and murder him.
To sum up, in the first two years of the World War II,
Hitler or his allies had captured most of the continent of Europe,
from the French coast to Moscow,
from Denmark to Greece.
Shortly before their collapse on 1945,
the Nazis initiated a ruthless genocide campaign
in all their occupied regions.
Life and Death in the Gettos
The largest of the ghettos was that in Warsaw,
the capital city of Poland.
The poorest areas of the district were set aside for Jews
and Jewish residences from all the other parts of the city.
The Jews were now forcibly moved into the ghetto.
Before they were put inside, all their money and valuables
were taken from them.
life in the ghetto went on under terrible conditions.
Life in the ghetto was horrendous.
Death stalked the streets of the Warsaw ghetto,
which was eternally gripped by fear.
Very little food was given,
and everyone lived on the edge of starvation.
As Jews were given only 184 calories a day,
an average of 8 to 10 people were crowded into one room
inside dilapidated buildings.
Every day, those living in the ghetto
could be subjected to various forms of abuse from Nazis.
An average of 100 people a day died from hunger,
sickness or malchism.
The final solution, setting up the extermination
and concentration camps.
At the beginning of 1942,
Hitler and his staff, in their sick mindset,
decided on a final solution to the Jewish problem.
That meant the systematic extermination of all Jews,
and leaving not one Jew alive in territory controlled by the Nazis.
In accordance with the horrifying decision,
the concentration camps were turned into extermination camps.
Jews from all the countries occupied by the Nazis were transferred to these camps by SS units,
specially assigned to this task.
The official story was that the camps were to employ them as workers.
But when they arrived, most were killed at once,
and the rest later, after having been used as forced labor.
Even the process of transporting the Jews to the camps,
reveals the inhuman quarrels,
even the process of transporting the Jews to the camps,
reveals the inhuman quarrels and the Jews to the camps.
The official story was that the camps were to employ them as workers.
But when they arrived, most were killed at once,
and the rest later, after having been used as forced labor.
Even the process of transporting the Jews to the camps,
even the process of transporting the Jews to the camps,
reveals the inhuman cruelty the Nazis inflicted.
Jewish families were rounded up from their homes,
or the ghettos at gunpoint with blows and abuse,
and crammed into railway cars that they had earlier carried animals or goods.
The death camps.
In the camps where the worst Nazi savager was carried out,
some 11 million people lost their lives,
proving how monstrous and ruthless people
who turn away from religious moral values
and silence the voice of their consciousness can be.
The concentration camps were first set up as labor camps.
Almost all, in Auschwitz in particular,
were opened alongside major industrial complexes.
Detainees who were brought to the camps
were forced to serve the German war machine
as slave laborers in these industrial areas.
Nazi ideology did not restrict itself to the pragmatic oppression,
but turned these camps into sites with the sole purpose
of exterminating all the undesirables as they were coined.
During the three years or so between the last months of 1941
and the end of 1944, a total of 11 million people,
of whom 5.5 million were Jews,
were killed in gas chambers and by other means,
or as died of starvation, disease and mistreatment.
The Nazis had no compassion for infants and innocent children,
whose sole crime was that they were Jewish.
For the old, the wretched, the handicapped and the sick,
and the henchmen set about exterminating these victims
with sadistic brutality.
The Nazis' hatred of religion.
The memories of Jews subjected to brutal Nazi fanaticism
contain passages that show the Nazis' hatred of religion.
A Jew with a beard and earlocks, who was wearing a black caftan and a hat,
could be easily targeted, singled out, and marked.
Members of the SS and other Nazi groups mercilessly intercepted devout Jews,
especially the elderly in the streets,
brutally tearing and cutting their beards and earlocks,
which are important symbols of faith for an ultra-Orthodox Jew.
They burned and tore up Jewish holy books and Torah scrolls,
and torched and burned thousands of synagogues.
The destructive propaganda against the Jews that began with Hitler's rise to power in 1933
filtered itself into many areas of influence in so many parts of the world.
Nazi propaganda techniques were not limited only to radio.
They prepared some training programs for the youth in the Islamic world,
to be raised as holding the Jews as enemies.
It is evident that the oppression against the Jews is not only the heinous genocide perpetrated against them.
Therefore, it is of the utmost importance to keep this in mind
and to awaken people who are ignorant of such wickedness.
A counter-educational program to give the facts of the history of the Jews
and how they were maltreated along with in-depth study of the Holocaust
and how it is continuing today by means of other tactics is of absolute necessity.
Revetably, two-thirds of the present world population have either not heard about the Holocaust or denies it.
Denial or indifference about such a tragedy is worrisome
and it is a moral responsibility on those who are knowledgeable about the facts.
Under the influence of biased teachings and hate indoctrination against the Jews,
some Muslim groups have become so predisposed to deny this terrific atrocity.
In fact, the denial of the Holocaust is the denial of historical facts
and ignorance of a dreadful massacre inflicted upon an innocent community.
The Jews had no intention to enter into war or attack the nations they were citizens of.
On the contrary, they were a part of the society in European countries.
Jews were farmers, tailors, seamstresses, factory hands, accountants, doctors, dentists, lawyers, teachers and small business owners.
Some families were wealthy, others were poor, and by the early 30s with the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany, the Jews became potential enemies.
During World War II, every single human right was violated under Nazi rule.
And this escalated with the hateful indoctrination of the Nazis against the Jews.
The Nazis implemented a reign of terror.
Exposed to ever-present cruelty of the Nazi regime, the world became a place of hitherto unseen savagery.
Even today, there are still some anti-Semitic actions taken against the inoffensive Jewish community.
In order to prevent a similar tragedy from ever happening again, a worldwide collaboration is exceedingly important.
Muslims should also lead a common cultural effort against groups that are in denial of the Holocaust with intellectual means.
These knowledgeable Muslims should explain to those who are unaware the policies that paved the way for one of the most terrible sufferings and disasters on mankind.
Why is it so important to acknowledge and not deny the Holocaust?
The reason is so that if in the future any such massive and devastating atrocities ever take place, whether to Jews or other groups, people will hopefully have learned and will not suppress their conscience to remain silent bystanders witnessing horrible sufferings.
No matter what group is oppressed or wronged, be it Jews or anyone else, they can bravely stand up to injustice using the power they get from their faith in God.
A true Muslim should never accept being a bystander to such tyranny.
Thus, the insensibility of some in the world regarding the Holocaust is the result of lack of proper education, the ongoing black propaganda and misinformation.
For these reasons, the people of the good conscience need to work.
We need to instill courage, resolutness and honesty to stand up against evil ideologies and we need to prompt and awaken people who are unaware.
Mr. Adnan Akhtar, as a Muslim, he describes the brutality of the Holocaust for the Islamic world in many languages, such as Persian and Arabic.
Rabbi Israel Mayor Lau, who survived the Holocaust when he was only eight years old, was a guest of Mr. Adnan Akhtar on A9 TV.
Sayın Başaham İsrail Meir Lau, kendisi 10 sene kadar İsrail Devleti'nin Aşkenazi Eskenazi Başahamı olarak görev almış.
Efendim hoş geldiniz, sefa geldiniz, şeref verdiniz.
İnşaAllah, inşaAllah hayrılara, güzelliklere, iyiliklere vesile olur.
Evet, inşaAllah bölgede bir güzellik, huzur, neşe ortamı olur.
İnşaAllah bizler, sizler de vesile olursunuz inşaAllah.
İnşaAllah Tevrat'ta belirtilen, Peygamber'in hadislerinde belirtilen Kral Mesih'in, Moşiyah'ın, Mehdi'nin devrindeyiz inşaAllah.
Evet, çok güzel günler olacak inşaAllah.
İnşaAllah.
Bu acı günler bir daha olmayacak inşaAllah bu Holocaustlar.
Güzel, tatlı günler olacak.
Bakın Başaham Efendi'nin o zamanlar, böyle sevimli, tatlı bir çocukmuş o zamanlar.
Zoom yap yavrum, zoom yap, iyice zoom yap, yaklaştır, yaklaştır.
Öncelikle, çok teşekkür ederim.
İzlediğiniz için teşekkür ederim.
Çocukluğundaki bir yaşındaki hali, bu hali tek fotoğrafı.
Holocaust'tan bir tık Başaham Efendi kurtulmuş.
Annesinin babasının hepsini hayatanın son vermiş.
O zamanın gaddarları.
Evet, yine çocukluk döneminden.
İsrail'e 8 yaşında kurtarıldıktan sonra geliyor Amerikalılar tarafından, Nazi soykurumundan.
5 yaşından 8 yaşına kadar kamplarda kalıyor.
Kamplardan kurtarılan en genç Musevi.
Çocukluk resimlerini görüyoruz burada.
Mübarek Kudüs Şerif'te inşaAllah o ufaklıklarda olacak, o sevimlerde hep birlikte olacağız inşaAllah.
Müslümanlar, Hıristiyanlar, Musevi kardeşlerimiz hep beraber birlikte olacağız inşaAllah.
Mübarek Kudüsler, İzlediğiniz için de teşekkür ederim.
Böylece kolay günler, güzel günler göreний.
Teşekkür ederim. D�сяṭı olsun ve Haraf.
Mübarek Kudüs Şerif'te, gelen fozt 一 8232 municipalurez,
The Muslim leaders should give a thorough explanation to their communities about this
atrocity and that Islam would never allow such hatefulness or persecution.
They should inform their communities that any Jew or anyone who is under affliction
should definitely be protected and guarded by Muslims according to the Quran.
They should participate in the process of eradicating such unjust hostility against Jews as a responsibility on our conscience.
I believe with full faith in the coming of the Messiah and even if it may tarry, it may take a while,
with all of that I'll still wait for that incredible day when he will come.
In a world of moral collapse, a small minority mastered extraordinary courage and stood in stark contrast to the hostility seen during the Holocaust.
These people regarded the Jews as fellow human beings and helped them no matter what the costs were.
As Muslims, we stand against all kinds of tyranny in the world, including the Jewish genocide.
We remember those who lost their lives and those who witnessed their horrible times and survived.
All mankind has a responsibility to ensure that such atrocities never happen again
and that such monstrous ideas are never allowed to spread again.
A true Muslim should never accept being a bystander to such tyranny.
The indifference of so many to the horrors of the Holocaust stems from a lack of proper education,
the ongoing black propaganda and disinformation.
People of good conscience need to instill courage, resoluteness and honesty to stand up to evil ideologies.
All Muslim community leaders, whether they are political or religious leaders, have an important duty.
These Muslim leaders must provide a comprehensive analysis of this atrocity to their communities
and explain that Islam would never permit such hatred or persecution.
They must inform their communities that any Jew or any other people that are afflicted should always be helped by Muslims according to the Quran.
It is of utmost importance and moral obligation to alert a person's conscience and to make sure that tragedies like this never recur.
Examples of Muslims who rescued the Jews
During World War II, there were many Muslims who risked their lives to help Jews flee and hide from the Nazis.
Albania is an Islamic country and was the only European country which hosted a fair number of the Jewish population that fled from Nazi brutality.
Darvish Karkut from Bosnia sheltered Mira Papo, a female resistance fighter.
He also saved the Sarajevo Haggadah, one of the rarest manuscripts written in Hebrew.
Salahattin Ulkeman, a Turk, saved 50 Jews from the gas chamber in Auschwitz.
In retaliation, the Nazis murdered his wife, just after she'd given birth to her son.
Hundreds of Jews were saved by Turkish diplomats during the war.
The Turkish diplomats issued Turkish visas to help Jews who fled Nazi persecution and organize their journey to Turkey, where they were received with Turkish hospitality.
Behic Erkin was Turkey's ambassador to Paris between 1939 and 1943.
Kudret Erbay was the council general in Hamburg from 1938 to 1942.
These two Turkish diplomats were also personally involved in saving Jews from the Nazi-occupied regions.
Arlette Boules, who was Jewish, discovered that her father was imprisoned by the Nazis and deported to the internment camp of Drancy outside Paris.
In her memoir, she writes,
My mother immediately went to the Turkish embassy and asked for help rescuing my father.
Thanks to the letters written by the ambassador, my father was rescued.
During the last 500 years, when Jews and Turks were closely associated, there are many examples of how Jews and Turks helped one another in difficult times.
In a world where moral values were disintegrating, a small minority mustered up courage during the dark years of the Holocaust.
These people are honored by Israel and called the righteous among the nations.
These brave non-Jews risked their lives in order to save Jewish lives and were exposed to lurking dangers, eternal threats, without waiting anything in return.
These righteous non-Jews regarded the Jews as fellow human beings and believed that it was a moral obligation to help these hapless Jewish victims in spite of dangers that they were exposed to.
As Muslims, we stand against all kinds of tyranny in the world, including prejudice and hatred against the Jewish nation.
We remember those who lost their lives and those who were witness to the horrors of the Holocaust and survived in spite of the Nazis' murderous intentions.
It is imperative that all the countries finally understand that this horror must never happen again.
This documentary is based on the works of Mr. Adnan Akhtar.
Special thanks to the Jeff Seidel Student Center for their contributions in the making of this documentary.
Thank you.