יום חמישי י"ח באדר ב תשפ"ד 28/03/2024
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  • The Mission Continues

    As in the past so it remains today - we were and still are under the selfsame commitment to adhere to the directions of the Gedolei Yisrael, who stand guard against breaches of purity threatening our camp. When we were required to ask – we asked. When we were instructed to depart – we left. The moment we are summoned back to raise the flag, every other consideration is pushed to the side and we answer: We are ready!

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  • Harav Yisrael Friedman zy”a, the Rebbe of Husyatin

    מוטי, ויקיפדיה העברית

    The ancestral chain of Harav Yisrael Friedman, the founder of the Husyatin chassidic court, originates with the holy Baal Shem Tov. The Husyatin chassidus has its roots in Galicia and eventually came to Tel Aviv, during the turbulent years between the two World Wars.

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  • Maccabi'im Gravesite

    In honour of Chanukah, we will discuss a fascinating, ongoing investigation attempting to establish the place of burial of Mattisyahu Kohen Gadol and his family.

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The Jewish Brains and the Cyclone Gas

Who invented the deadly Cyclone B gas?

N. Lieberman 21/07/2009 10:00
The gas which became infamous due to the most tragic of circumstances is called cyclone B.

It was with this gas that the Nazis implemented their "Final Solution" in murdering European Jews in the extermination camps of Majdanek and Auschwitz – Birkenau during the Holocaust.

The cyclone gas, which was originally designated to kill insects, was developed during the early twenties of the 19th century by no less than a Jewish German Chemist – Fritz Haber, who later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
In 1934\5494, Haber was forced by the Nazis to leave Germany, due to his Jewish identity.

Initially, the gas was used in the camps for lice extermination in order to halt the spreading of typhus.

In 1941\5701, however, the Nazis started experimenting with the gas, eventually using it for killing humans in the Auschwitz death-camp, after they had neutralized the smell of the gas so that it would not be detected by the inmates.

Degussa – a German company – manufactured the gas for the extermination mechanism of the gas chambers.
In September, 2008 \ Tishrei, 5769 – the Degussa company sponsored part of a seminar that the Imperial Museum of London held on the subject: "Behind the scenes of the forced labor camps".

This donation has aroused much wonder, since the company took an active part in the extermination acts and would receive the gold-teeth of the victims murdered in the camps, which the company would later melt into gold bars.

Nevertheless, it should be noted that Evonik Idustries AG – of which Degussa is a subsidiary - has taken responsibility for the past, and in 1988 compensated Holocaust Survivors who had endured forced labor at its tires factory during WWII.