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Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
Maga Denes, a psychiatrist who survived the holocaust says that Nazis forced her brother into the Danube River and then executed him. She describes the scene in an abortion clinic with the same force she saw in the killing fields of WW II. “I have seen brains spilled on sidewalks and crushed forever…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
At the end of World War II, some 50 European Jews decided to take an eye for an eye. These young men and women had seen the Nazis slaughter their families and communities and were “consumed with hatred.” Led by the charismatic partisan, Abba Kovner and calling themselves the avengers, the group plotted…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
Branko Lustig was a 10-year-old prisoner at Auschwitz when Nazi guards ordered him to stand in the front row at a hanging. Seven inmates were brought to the gallows and, as Branko watched, just moments before the bench was kicked out from under them, the inmates shouted in Yiddish, “Remember how we died!…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 33 views
In November 2018, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau released a formal apology for his country’s actions in WWII. A ship carrying German Jews sought safe haven in Canada but was rejected. It had no other choice but to return to Europe resulting in the death of over 250 of those passengers. Expressing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Operation Finale is a true-life drama about the capture of the Nazi who masterminded the holocaust. Israeli agents, acting on a tip, discovered Adolf Eichmann living in Argentina under an assumed name. After snatching him from the street they held him in isolation, waiting on the opportunity to transport…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
The Nuremberg trials, which were held following WWII, made the Nazi leaders to account for the atrocities committed before and during the war. British journalist William Shawcross’ father was one of the jurists at Nuremberg. Shawcross says, “Nuremberg’s value to the world lay less in how faithfully it…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Recently, the Guinness World Records organization gave 112-year-old Israel Kristal a certificate as the world’s oldest living man. Kristal was born in Poland in 1903, and survived both World Wars and a Nazi Concentration camp. His first wife and two children died in the camp, but Kristal survived and…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 47 views
One of the marks of our modern culture is the belief if one will just follow their own heart they will be alright. Award winning author Steven James comments in an interview with World Magazine. “Follow your dreams and everything will be wonderful in the end. This whole idea of follow your heart—that’s…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 34 views
In the French Alps, sits Le Chambon, a small village between the borders of Italy and Switzerland. Being Huguenots, the people of Le Chambon followed a long line of unswerving faithfulness to Christ, and with the spread of Nazi occupation they remained unmoved. The pastor in Le Chambon, André Trocmé,…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 94 views
Simon Wiesenthal, an Austrian Jew spent four-and-a-half years in various Nazi concentration camps during WWII. Wiesenthal, one of the few to survive the atrocities of the Holocaust, recounts a harrowing story in his memoir, The Sunflower. While working to clear rubbish from a make-shift hospital, a nurse…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 131 views
Life is Beautiful is a film about a man and his son captured by Nazis to a concentration camp. The father tried his best to entertain his son so that the boy would not realize their situation. He showed his love by keeping his son happy in the camp until he was taken away to be executed. Love is not…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
During World War II, England instituted the "Big Ben Minute,” as a catalyst to enlist citizen to prayer for the defeat of Germany’s Third Reich. Now the president of a Christian publishing company in Maryland is calling on the people of the United States to begin a daily minute of prayer to defeat evil…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 11 views
Two Polish neo-Nazis who were childhood sweethearts and later became skinheads have discovered what for them is a shocking family secret: They're actually Jewish. Pawel and Ola, identified only by their first names, are the subject of a CNN documentary about Poles rediscovering their Jewish roots generations…
Dan Hughes • Illustration • • 16 views
By Vishal Mangalwadi Published April 13, 2011 | FoxNews.com In his quest to change oppressive regimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, President George W. Bush argued, “Everyone desires freedom.” True. Everyone also desires a happy marriage: can everyone therefore have one? Afghanistan, Iraq, Ivory Coast, and…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 25 views
It was this calling that Dietrich Bonhoeffer heard. In his book, The Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer wrote, “When God calls a man, He bids him (to) come and die.” Bonhoeffer knew whereof he spoke. He was a rising academic, a promising theologian and a german pastor. His promising academic and ecclesiastical…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
During the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, England and Germany were playing soccer while their fans were cheering them on. What a difference 65 years can make. Back in 1944 it was a different picture between these two countries. These two countries were at war with each other in WW II. If it wasn’t for…
Illustration • • 5 views
A Florida court has agreed to pay $150 a day for a makeup artist to cover up a defendant's offensive tattoos throughout his trial, MyFoxTampaBay.com reported. John Ditullio, 23, faces first degree murder and attempted murder charges. His trial begins on Monday. Ditullio obtained several new tattoos since…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 31 views
The first time the town of Tubingen, Germany, expelled all of its Jewish residents was in 1477. It wasn’t the last. It became a place where anti-Jewish doctrines thrived, especially during World War II. Today, however, the Jerusalem Post reports that not only has a tiny Jewish community returned to the…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 5 views
Peter Malkin participated in the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the famous Nazi who helped to carry out Hitler’s outrage against the Jews in WW 2. Eichmann escaped to Argentina, but was tracked down by Israeli operatives and brought to justice. It was Peter Malikin whose own father had died in the death…
Robert Phillips • Illustration • • 6 views
n 1645, one vote gave Oliver Cromwell control of England In 1649, one vote caused Charles I of England to be executed In 1845, one vote brought Texas into the Union In 1868, one vote saved President Andrew Johnson from impeachment In 1875, one vote changed France from a monarchy to a republic In 1876,…
Mike Lester • Illustration • • 11 views
Faithfulness is not gained in a day but is achieved by right decisions day by day. There once was a little village named Le Chambon in France, a town whose people, unlike others in France, hid their Jews from the Nazis. An author was writing a story on the town and visited it, wondering what sort of…
Kent Carroll • Illustration • • 119 views
Illustrations of unintended consequences: Treaty of Versailles of 1919 – It ended WWI and disarmed Germany and made it take full responsibility for starting the war. Germany was forced to give up territory and pay reparations. However, untended consequences of the treaty lead to the rise of the Nazi…
Michael McDonald • Illustration • • 18 views
Mysterious Ways, Tablecloth, Nazism, Reunion The brand new pastor and his wife, newly assigned to their first ministry, to reopen a church in suburban Brooklyn, arrived in early October excited about their opportunities. When they saw their church, it was very run down and needed much work. They set…
Rusty Russell • Illustration • • 22 views
Can God really save a “Hit-Man?” You know what a hit man is, of course. He’s the guy the Mafia or the drug dealer calls when he needs to teach somebody a lesson. From a distance with a scope and a rifle, or up close in some violent confrontation, hit men kill people they may not even know with one purpose…
rspurdum • Illustration • • 101 views
Simon Wiesenthal lost 89 relatives in Hitler’s death camps. One day he was yanked out of a work detail and taken up a back stairway to a dark hospital room. A nurse led him into the room, then left him alone with a figure wrapped in white, lying on a bed. The figure was a badly wounded German soldier,…