Throughout their history, the Jewish people have suffered at the hands of many different oppressors and have been accused of many different crimes down through the centuries. Their primary crime as a people, is that they know too much. Yes, that is true and they are hated for it. What do they know? They KNOW Who the One True CREATOR, the Mighty One of Israel is, and they KNOW that the Seventh Day is His Sabbath of rest.

In this first part of the series we will cover some of the burdens that the Jewish people have shouldered. The first account is from Treblinka (a concentration and decimation camp in W.W.II) and is from a sermon given years ago in the "Worldwide Church of God." The sermon went through the steps taken to harden the staff of the German death camps in W.W.II to do their grisly work. The purpose of that sermon was to point out that all human nature, in general is capable of committing the crimes done in these camps. (Emphasis is the author's throughout.)

The purpose of this writing is to focus attention on the victims--the Jewish people and the horrors they have suffered all through the millenniums. This is a defense of the Jewish people as a race and IS NOT a defense of the Jewish Talmudic religious system--with the exception of their acknowledgment that the ETERNAL is the Elohim and He is One, and that His Code of Conduct is to be followed which contains the Sabbath Command.

Treblinka

Why is the world indifferent at best, to their suffering? Recall that President Roosevelt and the Congress knew of the atrocities happening in Germany. The American Jews begged the President to bomb the concentration camps and he refused. If we use the masculine pronoun him to represent the Jewish nation, "it was as if we hid our faces from him and esteemed him not."

These questions will be answered in Parts I and II in this series on "The Extermination of a People."

One account given in the WCG sermon occurred during the winter of 1943 in Treblinka. ¹ The victims in the story were of a large group of children:

"Nazi storm troopers with their machine guns and guard dogs forced the children into a location between the inner and outer fences and the children were stripped naked. As they stood naked in the snow and the bitter cold, they were hosed down with a fire hose and left to freeze to death in the snow. The wet freezing children huddled their tiny bodies together to try to stay warm. The next morning the mass of dead youthful bodies were frozen into a huge mass of ice"

Again using the masculine pronoun to represent the Jewish people, "As he was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation for he was cut off from the land of the living"?

Anti-Semitism

The national news during the first full week of March, 1997 (when sermon was 1st given) highlighted two cases of anti-Semitism that have surfaced. The first was a radio AP news report that Avis Rent A Car had not only issued instructions for discriminating against blacks but also against Jews. . In looking at the world now in the 21st Century the world is rampant with anti-Semitism.

The second was a CBS news cast showing many pictures portraying the regular German army participating in the genocide of Jews. The photographs were of the hanging of many Jews by regular German troops with many of the soldiers holding the foot of a Jew that had been hung. The reason this revelation is so outstanding is that since the end of W.W.II the German press has feverishly presented the idea that ONLY Hitler's special SS troops had participated in crimes against the Jewish people.
This is all in addition to recent atrocities in the Middle East. What is the cause of this anti-Semitism and why is it again on the increase in these latter days?

Origin of Anti-Semitism²

"The term Anti-Semitism [in modern usage] refers to prejudice against Jews. The term is inexact since it does not refer to all Semites, which would include the Arabs, but designates opposition only to Jews. Anti-Semitism has manifested itself in many ways: hostile popular sentiment; discriminatory legislation; expulsion; and, in Nazi Germany, deliberate extermination."

"From the beginning, their claim to be a chosen people, their refusal to worship other gods, and their insistence on special religious laws placed Jews in a vulnerable position. In the ancient Roman Empire, very few Jews were admitted to Roman citizenship. Early Christians held the Jews responsible for the crucifixion of "Christ," an allegation that became the justification of anti-Semitism for many centuries, spreading with the domination of Christianity in the West." ²

Notice in the above paragraph that the Jews were placed in a "vulnerable position" Why? Because:
1. They refused to participate in the worship of any god but the One True CREATOR
2. And of the "allegations" that they were responsible for the crucifixion of Chr-st. The spiritual power behind anti-Semitism is satan the devil because it hates the only people on earth who profess to worship the ONE TRUE CREATOR and who keep His Sabbath day.

"Christian Identity" Movement

To bring the focus on anti-Semitism into "the nineties and zeroes" the Christian Research Institute,³ a cult awareness association states of them:

"Christian Identity" is the name of a religious movement uniting many of the white supremacist groups in the United States. ...They consider themselves [the] true Israel and view the Jews as half-devils and arch-enemies. ..."Identity" adherents believe they are the only descendants of Adam and the only chosen descendants of Abraham. This is the reason for the name "Identity"--they are convinced they know their true identity. They believe they are members of the supposed ten lost tribes of Israel. Identity adherents of today would include the British, Germanic, and Scandinavian peoples as those comprising the tribes of lost Israel."

The movement, Anglo-Israelism, began in 1870. It was founded by the Rev. John Wilson, a nonconformist minister who expounded the idea that the Anglo-Saxons were the supposed ten lost tribes of Israel. Believing the nations of Western Europe and the United States to be "God's" chosen people, they expected them to receive all the promises "God" gave to Israel in the Old Testament."

"Today, with few exceptions (the Worldwide Church of "God," and most Messianic groups), most adherents of Anglo-Israelism are in the "Identity" movement. ³ "

Our Belief in Anglo Israelism

United Hebrew Congregations (UHC) is not connected with, associated with, and DOES NOT identify with the "Christian Identity" movement or any of their religious or political aspirations. We are not a "Christian" organization nor do we advocate one race over another. Our stand on racial issues is the same as that of the CREATOR of the universe as He states:
"As for the Gentiles, the outsiders who join the people of YHWH and serve Him and love His name, who are His servants and don't desecrate the Sabbath, and have accepted His covenant and promises, `I will bring them also to My Holy Mountain of Jerusalem and make them full of joy within My House of Prayer. I will accept their sacrifices and offerings, for My Temple shall be called A House of Prayer for All People'!" (Isa. 56-6-7 TLB).

UHC does however believe, that all twelve Tribes of Israel are identifiable today in various locations of the earth and that they are ALL descendants of the twelve tribes as listed in the Holy Scriptures.
"And with you there shall be a man from every tribe, ...from Reuben, ...from Simeon, ...from Judah, ...from Issachar, ...from Zebulun, ...from the sons of Joseph (from Ephraim), ...from Manasseh, ...from Benjamin, ...from Dan, ...from Asher, ...from Gad, ...from Naphtali" (Numbers 1:4-15).

We believe as WCG and Yair Davidy, that the Lost Ten Tribes can be identified as the Anglo-Saxon peoples of today. We also believe the Jewish people of today stem from the tribe of Judah (vs. 7 above) and that all twelve tribes are brothers springing from our common father Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Therefore, we are opposed to anti-Semitism, violence, or political intrigue of any nature.

To back our position that greater Israel is divided into two sections, Judah and Joseph, we believe the scriptures that proclaims that our CREATOR will reunite the Ten Tribes with the Tribe of Judah in the Messianic age: (read our article "The Two-fold Aspect of the Promises to Abraham, Judah's Scepter and Joseph's Birthright The United States, Britain, and the Jewish Peoplein Prophecy.)
"Therefore prophesy and say to them, Thus says ETERNAL CREATOR, `Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.' ...Again the word of YHWH came to me saying, 'As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it, For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.' Then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.' Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand. And when the children of your people speak to you, saying, 'Will you not show us what you mean by these'? ...Then say to them, Thus says YHWH CREATOR; `Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land. And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king [David] shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again'" (Ezek. 37:12,15-19,21-22).

Recent History of anti-Semitism

Continuing from Grolier's Encyclopedia: ⁴

"The Middle Ages were characterized by repeated efforts to identify church and state. In such a view of society, ONLY 'CHRISTIANS' HAD A REAL PLACE. Periodic persecutions of Jews occurred. A large-scale persecution opened in Spain during the 13th century, ...By the end of the 15th century, the inquisition put to trial Jews and other nonconformists in Spain, culminating in the expulsion of Jews from the country."

"...At about the same time, similar oppressive measures were enforced in England, France, and Germany. ...Jews were also forced to live in walled ghettos. ...Outside the gates, they were obliged to wear an identifying badge. This forced segregation was abolished only in the 19th century."

"...With the partitions of Poland (1772, 1793, 1795), masses of Jews were added to Russia. The Czarist government established the "Pale of Settlement," a large territory in the western provinces, and decreed military service for children. The attacks on Jews, beginning in 1881 caused a mass emigration to the United States and the establishment of colonies in Palestine."

"...During the 19th century, anti-Semitism again gained strength by appeals to (1) nationalistic motives, especially where a Jewish minority was strong, as in Eastern Europe; and (2) racial motives. ...The theory of the ...superiority of the Aryan race and the ideas ...on racial purity, exercised a great influence on subsequent racist policies. In Germany, anti-Semitism became an organized movement during the late 19th century. Later, Nazism turned anti-Semitism into an official government policy that within a decade led to the systematic extermination of nearly 6 million Jews." ⁵

As the momentum of anti-Semitism grew it was flamed by many false accusations against the Jews--one of which was "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

From Grolier's ⁶

"The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was the title of a forged treatise purporting to outline the plans of a late-19th-century council of Jews to subvert Christianity and seize control of the world. The treatise first appeared in its entirety in Russia in 1905 but was apparently written in France in the 1890s by members of the Russian secret police. ...Although the Times (London) revealed the forgery in 1921, the Protocols were translated into many languages and circulated widely in Europe and the United States during the 1920s and '30s. They were cited as the classical defense for anti-Semitism, especially by the National Socialists in Germany."

As a side note: this document is being circulated again, [starting in the 1990's] by the "Christian Identity" movement. As stated earlier, this hatred for the Jewish people culminated in the extermination of six million of them in the death camps in Germany. This national exercise in hatred is identified as "The Holocaust."

Holocaust

From Grolier's article "Holocaust": ⁷

"The first German concentration camp was established at Dachau near Munich in 1933 to detain Communists and other political dissidents. ...After the decision was made to remove all Jews from Germany, mass arrests started in May 1938 and slave labor camps were established."

"Early in 1941, Hitler gave the order to exterminate Jews, and concentration camps were used for mass annihilation. In Poland, Jews were first imprisoned in ghettos in a few large cities; they were then resettled in [deported to] death camps. Despite administrative disputes over the need to preserve a supply of Jewish labor, economic considerations were generally subordinated to what was called the `final solution.' Auschwitz was chosen as the main extermination center; gas chambers were installed, using methods perfected in an earlier euthanasia program. Between five and six million Jews died; two million of them died in Auschwitz alone, where mass killings began in March 1942. Large numbers of Poles, Russians, and Gypsies also were put to death."

Accounts From a Holocaust Survivor

These following accounts are from a Holocaust Survivor ⁸

The Miracle in Auschwitz
"A miracle happened in Auschwitz. Lily, a beautiful eight-year-old doll, survived the gassing. She was lucky. When Leon, the Jewish Sonderkommando, pulled her lithe body to transport her to the crematorium, she opened her eyes and asked. "What happened to me? Where do you take me?"

"Leon faced a dilemma, `What shall I do? Burn the girl alive?' Risking his own life, Leon smuggled the child into the dormitory, and hid her under his bed. She stayed there for two days, until she was discovered by the supervising SS-man.

"The SS-man took Lily outside and shot her. `Burn the body in the open pit,' he ordered. `I can't sidestep the Fuhrer's order.' And so the splendid German Death Machine, has proven its efficiency, once more. An order is an order. Deutschland uber alles" [Germany over everything].

An Act of Kindness
Ghetto of Rohatyn 1942: A heavyset German climbed the steps to the attic, in search of the Jews. He spotted two young children, hiding behind a black trunk.

He slowly approached the children, frozen with fear. After a moment of hesitation, he pulled out his bayonet and ...grabbed an old quilt, ripped it apart and covered them with a heavy layer of white feathers. `You remind me of my own children. How can I harm you?' He said quietly.

"It was an act of kindness. It gave the children, left without parents, a few months of a wretched life. Six months later, they were shipped to Belzec, for gassing.

A Child's Question
"At the Umschlagplatz, the transfer point to the gas chambers, a three-year old boy asked: `Mommy, why does Hitler hate me? He doesn't even know me. I am a good boy, Mommy.'

"'Yes, you are a good boy, and therefore we soon will be reunited with Daddy and Rachel,' answered the mother, reassuringly.

[Again using the masculine pronoun him to represent the Jewish nation, "Surely he has born our grief's, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of Elohim, and afflicted."]

The Homeless Orphan
"In a small ghetto, a ten-year old, homeless orphan, was laid up with typhoid. He lay outdoors, on a bundle of straw, covered with snow. Fed by some good souls, he miraculously survived the typhoid, the high fever, and the cold--to be shot by the Germans.

The Fighter
"In the Warsaw Ghetto, Shlomo wrote in his diary: `My father is a fighter. Everyday he fights for a piece of bread.' Soon afterwards, Shlomo was shipped to Treblinka.

[He may have been part of the group children mentioned earlier that were frozen to death.]

The Incineration
"In 1944, a young Jewish woman arrived to Auschwitz, carrying a year-old baby. She was healthy and pretty and was spared the gassing. Before entering the gates of the camp, an SS-man pulled the baby from her hands and threw it alive into the crematorium oven. She [the mother] survived to tell her story.

Common Sense
"In a small town of Lithuania, a mother with a four-year old daughter on her hands, stood in line to be shot. `Mommy, why don't we run away? They are killing us,' pleaded the child. `Where shall we run?' answered the mother.

[Again using the masculine pronoun him to represent the Jewish nation, "He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before his shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth"]

The Runner
"Sandomierz, Poland, 1942: Shlomo felt the pangs of hunger and left the ghetto to get some food, in a nearby village. On the way he was intercepted by `Bloody Edzio,' the nasty German Gendarme who was known for his sadistic practical jokes.

"Shlomo, the fourteen old boy, recognized Bloody Edzio, and started to plead for his life: `Please let me go. I have an old mother to support.'

`I will let you go, after we arrive in the ghetto,' promised the Gendarme. He tied Shlomo with a rope to his horse and started to gallop. The emaciated boy could not keep up with the horse. The boy screamed, and the more the boy screamed the more the sadist whipped his horse.

Bloody Edzio, dragged the body to the ghetto and there he kept his promise, and let the boy go. Shlomo died two hours later.

The Right to Live
"Sandomierz, Poland, 1942: The newly established Hitler Jugend Camp requested from the Jewish Council, 50 Jews to be sent for a forced labor assignment. When the Jews started to work in the garden, a Hitler Jugend boy approached a Jewish boy and shot him, for fun, with a small caliber gun.

"The wounded boy, started to bleed, but continued working. He worked to the end of the day, and was leaving when an adult German, intercepted him, led him to a tree and shot him at close range, declaring: 'A Jew wounded by a German, has no right to live.'"

Crucifixion of A Race
"There is no rational explanation for the madness of the Final Solution. At the time of the Holocaust, the Jews were stripped of their possessions, walled in ghettos, powerless and docile. They had no power, no land, nothing. The Jews were not a danger to Hitler's rule.

"The Holocaust is not the only indication of Hitler's derangement. Nazi Germany was full of the bizarre. For example: Germany had human breeding farms, where volunteer teenage girls were impregnated by blond, blue-eyed SS-men, to bear children for the Fuhrer. ...In Auschwitz, Mengele conducted experiments on twins to find ways of improving the breeding methods for the German women.

"'God' created man in His image and Hitler tried to create a new man in his own brutal image. His vision of a New World is outlined in Table Talks a book based on Hitler's own monologues. It is a chilling picture of a world order based on slavery, brutality, and nonsense. There is no doubt that Hitler was a charismatic leader, who was able to infect with his paranoia a whole generation of German people. The Holocaust was the first stage of the New World Order and a few of Hitler's admirers in the U.S.A. would be surprised to learn that they would have been the next victims.

"It is tragic, that for the satisfaction of the whim of one man, a whole nation was crucified and the world, conditioned by two thousand years of anti-Semitism, looked on in indifferent silence. Nothing was done to stop the killings. ⁷

To again use the masculine pronoun for Judah the paragraph above is surely described by Isa. 53:3,7; "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. ...He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth."

The Suffering of Judah

In Isaiah chapters 51, 52, 53, and 54 YHWH the One True CREATOR, the Elohim of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob describes this national suffering and crucifixion of His people. Since the subject in these chapters is Jerusalem then these verses refer to the tribe of Judah, the Jewish people. Beginning with Isa. 51:17 ETERNAL describes the ignominies that Judah has suffered over the millenniums: (To get the full story flow, please read these verses in context in your own set of Holy Scriptures.)
"Awake, awake! Stand up, O Jerusalem, You who have drunk at the hand of YHWH the cup of His fury. You have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, and drained it out. There is no one to guide her, among all the sons, she has brought forth; nor is there any who takes her by the hand among all the sons she has brought up. These two things have come to you; who will be sorry for you? Desolation and destruction, famine and sword; By whom will I comfort you? (Isa. 51:17-19).

Verses :21-23 ETERNAL proclaims He will remove His fury from Judah and give it to their enemies:
"Therefore, please hear this, you afflicted, and drunk but not with wine. Thus says your Master, YHWH and your CREATOR, Who pleads the cause of His people: `See, I have taken out of your hand The cup of trembling, The dregs of the cup of My fury; You shall no longer drink it. But I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to you, 'Lie down, that we may walk over you.' And you have laid your body like the ground, and as the street, for those who walk over" (Isa. 51:21-23).

Chapter 52:1-6 ETERNAL continues to comfort Judah for the suffering they endured especially at the hand of Assyria. In verses :7-8 He refers to the Watchman that comforts Judah and proclaims, "Your CREATOR reigns!" which stated in another way is the message of the work of Elijah that shouts to all the world, "The ETERNAL, He is the Creator and He is One."

Conclusion

Remember the cause of anti-Semitism is satan as it uses Judah's refusal to budge from the acknowledgment that the ETERNAL is our CREATOR and that He is One. That trait combined with their absolute refusal to worship any other gods or observe any other day of worship other than the Sabbath has caused these people to be despised and hated by the world.

United Hebrew Congregations believes in Anglo-Israelism yet we DO NOT identify with the "Christian Identity" movement. We believe THE TIME HAS COME TO PROCLAIM to all Israel their identity and that they must return to the worship of the One True CREATOR. We believe in the reunification of all twelve Tribes of Israel and proclaim the following message to all of Israel:
"Then say to them, 'Thus says ETERNAL CREATOR: Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again. They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their Elohim. David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My statutes, and do them. Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, where your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children's children, forever; and My servant David shall be their prince forever. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore'" (Ezek. 37:21-26).

Footnotes

1. "Treblinka was a concentration camp ...used by the German Nazis in their program of exterminating the Jews. First established by the Germans as a slave labor camp in 1941, Treblinka was turned into a death camp early in 1942. ...By July 11, 1945, when the Soviet army entered Warsaw, 800,000 Jewish men, women, and children had been put to death at Treblinka." From Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia, version 7.0.4 article on "Holocaust."

2. Ibid. Article on "Anti-Semitism."

3. "If you desire to reproduce less than 500 words of this data file for resale or the enhancement of any other product for resale, please give the following source credit: Copyright 1993 by the Christian Research Institute, P.O. Box 500, San Juan Capistrano, CA 92693. "Identity: A 'Christian' Religion for White Racists" (an article from the Christian Research Journal, Fall 1992, page 20) by Viola Larson. The Editor-in-Chief of the Christian Research Journal is Elliot Miller."

4. Op.cit., Grolier's article on "Anti-Semitism."

5. Ibid. "Anti-Semitism."

6. Ibid. "Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

7. Ibid. "Holocaust."

8. From the Web site, Holocaust - Understanding & Prevention, "Children of the Holocaust" by Alexander Kimel - Holocaust Survivor, February 1997.