Responding to a statement by Leon Trotsky on the anti-Jewish atrocities of the Bolsheviks, a Daily Telegraph correspondent in Russia says, “If for the triumph of communism the whole race must suffer, this will be a splendid sacrifice for humanity.”
50 years ago Oct. 11, 1946
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York backs Truman’s plea to grant admission to displaced European Jews into Palestine.
25 years ago Oct. 15, 1971
The Soviet Jewry “Freedom Bus,” loaded with young Soviet Jews who fled their country, rolls into San Francisco to participate in Bay Area Jewish Youth Council events.
10 years ago Oct. 17, 1986
Bay Area friends of writer Elie Wiesel applaud the Nobel Committee’s selection of the Jewish concentration camp survivor and philosopher of the Holocaust as the ’86 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.