“Every Single One Was Someone” was gifted to H.H. Pope Francis by the Helping Hand Coalition Global Forum.
This unique Limited Edition book has the word “Jew” printed 6 million times in 33 languages, representing the countries afflicted during the Holocaust. Each word recognizes a person killed and is dedicated to their memory.
The Holocaust
Dark times. Millions gone. Humanity must remember.
Jews have lived in Europe for more than two thousand years. The total Jewish population of Europe in 1933 was about 9.5 million. This number represented more than 60 percent of the world’s Jewish population, estimated at 15.3 million. Most European Jews resided in Eastern Europe, with about 5.5 million Jews living in Poland and the Soviet Union. In little more than a decade, most of Europe would be conquered, occupied, or annexed by Nazi Germany, and most European Jews—two out of every three—would be dead.
Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazi regime and its collaborators murdered six million European Jews as well as five million non-Jews. The term Holocaust (meaning mass slaughter or genocide) and its Hebrew equivalent, Shoah (meaning literally “catastrophe”), are used to label the persecution and extermination of European Jews at the hands of the Nazis and their allies and collaborators.
Jews in some nations fared better than in others. In those dark days, every nation—and every individual—had a choice. This book paints a graphic picture of the consequences of those choices.
