Sheogorath
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8 December 1943
Hitler has been compelled to re-build a synagogue in Dublin, and Eirewits speak of it as "Hitler's synagogue."
One night Nazi airmen dropped bombs on Dublin. Many casualties resulted, and one of the buildings destroyed was the synagogue.
Hitler sent a personal apology, and paid for restoring the synagogue.
Klaus Zwilsky, 74, of Calvert County MD, is a Holocaust survivor. However, his story is relatively unique among Jews who emerged from the horrors of Nazi Germany. He was not sent to a concentration camp, nor did he spend World War II hiding in the home of a sympathtic non-Jew. Instead, Zwilsky survived in a Jewish hospital in Berlin, with the knowledge, and consent, of the Nazi government.
Zwilsky is one of twenty who were interviewed for Daniel B. Silver's book "Refuge in Hell: How Berlin's Jewish Hospital Outlasted the Nazis." The book details how the 800 or so Jews living in the hospital managed to survive in the capital of Nazi Germany. Causes range from bureaucratic infighting to German leader Adolf Hitler's ambivalence about how to handle Jews of German descent to the simple fact that the Nazis needed a place to treat Jews.