WALL STREET JOURNAL
To Appreciate Freedom, Remember Slavery
by Ruth R. Wisse
March 29, 2018

…The Passover story should never be left half told. Understandably, American Jews felt compelled to commemorate the unprecedented brutality of the Holocaust and its victims. They erected museums and memorials and insisted the subject be taught to schoolchildren. But the 1940s witnessed another event equally unparalleled in human history. Zionism, the Jewish movement for self-liberation, took off in Europe at the same time as German anti-Semitism, too late for the rescue of European Jewry but in time to shelter its survivors. READ MORE WSJ SUBSCRIPTION CONTENT