From Vélodrome d'hiver to Drancy to Auschwitz

                                              SOURCES:
re testimony about Auschwitz, see the non-truncated "Felix Opatowski: Gatehouse to Hell," at: 
https://vimeo.com/47936118

re the video track for “The Vel d'Hiv Roundup of 1942,” see Haley Scholz’s YouTube Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5SY9...

re the audio track I used for the edit of Haley Scholz's “The 
Vel d'Hiv Roundup of 1942,” the music is titled "Ameno," 
by songwriters Eric Levi and Guy Protheroe (1996), and performed here by Dee Yan-Kee, which may be accessed 
here: https://freemusicarchive.org/search/…

re opinion written in the red text on yellow background (see below), it is what was essentially given March 2010 in 
Munich, by Mordechay Lewy, the then-Israeli Ambassador 
to the Holy See, on the silence of Pope Pius XII regarding 
the Holocaust and his failure to condemn publicly anti-
Semitism. 

For the full article that was used for presentation below of Ambassador Mordechay Lewy's educated opinion, see THE JERUSALEM POST at https://www.jpost.com/…/Why-was-Pope-...

The video is entirely for educational purpose, and I have 
made it available free to the public -- completely free of 
any transactional basis whatsoever.

This video (click on the video's play button above) is about French collaboration with the Nazis for the deportation of Jews to the death camps. Pope Pius XII knew that the Holocaust was happening, but he chose to remain silent and "neutral," supposedly so as not to disturb Roman Catholics in Germany, and thereby bring on Nazi reprisals against the Church should German Roman Catholics become hostile to the Nazis. The German populace, however, was already well acquainted with the fact of the Holocaust; neither the Roman Catholics nor the Lutherans were disposed to shed their anti-Semitism and raise an extraordinary, public outcry against the Nazis' treatment of the Jews and other persecuted groups (e.g., Gypsies and Jehovah's Witnesses).

Can the God of the Bible Ever Approve a Cover-up of Men's Wicked Deeds?

What a contrast is drawn between the fears (lack of peace) and horrors/atrocities evidenced in manmade, Satan-controlled governments, on the one hand (see below), and, on the other hand, the rulership and peace of Jehovah God's heavenly government in the hands of Jesus the Messiah whose governance of God's people will be by "justice and righteousness from now on and forever" (Isaiah 9:7)!

"In 1990, Soviet President Gorbachev admitted that the Soviet Union was responsible for the murders of [22,000] Polish prisoners of war at Katyn in 1940. No one was ever prosecuted. 

"In 2012, declassified documents proved that the U.S. suppressed information that attested Soviet guilt. "No British government has ever publicly charged the former Soviet Union with responsibility for the Katyn Massacre. 22,000 Polish prisoners of war were murdered in the Katyn Massacre. More murders followed in the years after the Massacre in an effort to keep the truth buried forever."

The cover-up was approved by Churchill and FDR, "a subterfuge seen as a necessary evil in order to maintain the delicate political balance for the greater good."



The photograph was made in 1943, and shows German soldiers uncovering a part of the mass grave in which the Soviet NKVD had buried in 1940 their executions of 22,000 Polish soldiers and Polish elite (intellectuals and professionals).

No Firm Evidence That T. Rex Bore Feathers

The video portrayal of T. rex at https://youtu.be/DFmvJqzHW6U does not give us an accurate portrayal of T. Rex skin.

Brigit Katz, in her article T. Rex Was Likely Covered in Scales, Not Feathers, June 8, 2017, wrote the following: 

“An international team of researchers studied skin impressions taken from T. rex fossils found in Montana. They then compared those impressions to fossilized skin patches of other tryannosaurs, like the Albertosaurus, Daspletosaurus, Gorgosaurus, and Tarbosaurus. The samples represented parts of the dinosaurs’ stomach, chest, neck, pelvis, and tail, according to Ben Guarino of the Washington Post. And none bore any traces of feathers.” (The bolding of the last 7 words in this quote is by me, and was done for emphasis.)

Apparently, an earlier team of researchers, which thought that T. rex certainly had some plumage, had not studied the fossils thoroughly enough. How many more erroneous studies of fossils are there that need to be exposed, but are invoked as support by those who accept macroevolutionary theory?
Fossilized skin from the neck of a Tyrannosaurus rex. (©2004 Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Inc., Hill City, SD) This photograph is reproduced here for educational purpose only. You may follow Smithsonian Magazine on Twitter @SmithsonianMag.

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TRUE CHRISTIANITY'S NEIGHBORHOOD IS INTERNATIONAL -- GLOBAL!

A Christian's neighborhood is more than those who dwell in close proximity to him. His neighborhood, as viewed through God's eyes, will consist of all those for whom the Christian has compassion, and for whom he seeks to show that compassion. So, then, a true Christian's neighborhood is an international, global neighborhood.

How divested -- disowning -- of ourselves must we be in a love for neighbor so that it is love that counts with God? How widely embracing must that love for neighbor be? Does it mean that we are to show love for those who hate us, who persecute us, who speak evilly against us? May we love neighbors as we might want to define them, and then hate in return those who we know have taken us to be their enemies and not their neighbors? See Luke 18:20-22; Matthew 5:43-48. 

Even if a Law of Moses might have been given as large in its code as what is contained in the Jewish rabbis' Talmud, an Israelite's striving for obedience that measures up to the letter of such a Law would not necessarily have revealed what was in his heart toward his neighbors, whether he had compassion and genuine love for them; an Israelite's striving for obedience to the very letter of the Law might not be with the right motive. What is required is our discerning the spirit-- the underlying principles -- of the Law, and then wholeheartedly living according to that spirit, for in that is the fulfillment of all the Law and the holy prophets. Then is when our obedience to God's laws a thing done out of faith in the gracious character of our God, Jehovah. Then is when it is shown that our obedience is faith that operates through love. Then is when we show that "for our part [, which has nothing to do with misguidedly trying to justify ourselves by living according to the letter of some written code of many laws], we are by spirit eagerly waiting for the hoped-for righteousness resulting from faith . . . [because the thing of real value with God is our] faith operating through love" (Galatians 5: 6). (Oh, yes, doing the fine works of God's will out of real love for God and neighbor is necessary for salvation -- though it could never be sufficient to earn us salvation. That is God's free gift on the basis of Jesus' shed blood for forgiveness of sins, and which we may appropriate by our faith in that ransom sacrifice.) To use the God-inspired words recorded in the Bible at Micah 6:8, "He has told you, O man, what is good. And what is Jehovah requiring of you? Only to exercise justice, to cherish loyalty [or, "to be kind and loyal in your love"], And to walk in modesty with your God."