Content to Text: Comparing Jewish Refugees of the 1930s With Syrian Refugees Today

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Today there are more than 65 million dislodged individuals around the world — the most astounding number on record since the United Nations Refugee Agency started gathering insights. Europe confronts a compassionate emergency, with a great many individuals escaping clashes in Syria and around the Middle East and Africa touching base in Greece, Hungary, Germany and different nations every month. Some European subjects are careful about permitting exiles to enter, refering to worries about security and the economy; different nations on the landmass have attempted to discover the assets and the political will to address transients' and displaced people's issues. 

For some spectators, today's difficulties likewise raise uncomfortable authentic echoes, as scenes of exiles swarming European prepare stages and holding up in terrible gathering camps review the occasions of World War II and the Holocaust.  In an Op-Ed in August, the writer Nicholas Kristof contended that "history rhymes" and composed, "Today, to our disgrace, Anne Frank is a Syrian young lady." 

Mr. Kristof and different essayists conjure the destiny of Jewish outcasts in the 1930s as a wake up call about the outcomes of lack of concern and inaction on the planet group today. Another narrative film by Ken Burns and Artemis Joukowsky, "Opposing the Nazis: The Sharps' War," offers another authentic focal point that can hone our viewpoint on today's emergency. It recounts the little-known story of Martha and Waitstill Sharp, an American couple who abandoned the wellbeing of their Massachusetts home and their own particular youthful kids to help outcasts in Europe on the very edge of World War II. The Sharps confronted a mind boggling and edgy circumstance with humankind, innovativeness and boldness. 

In this Text to Text, we match a Times article about the recorded reverberation of Europe's displaced person emergency with a portion from "Resisting the Nazis" that accounts the Sharps' alleviation and protect mission in 1939. Together, these writings bring up critical issues about whether there are "lessons" of history and welcome reflection on how people and governments react to those in need.