Megillah Hitler causes Astonishment at Porto's Holocaust museum

Megillah Hitler causes Astonishment at Porto's Holocaust museum

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The Holocaust museum is best known for receiving 50,000 children from schools in Portugal every year so that woke socialism does not disturb their understanding of the fate of the Jews in World War II (1939-1945). Now a document from 1943 has been exposed that has shocked everyone, especially those most knowledgeable about the Holocaust.

The Megillah Hitler is a Hebrew scroll written in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1943 by a local scribe and teacher named Prosper Hassine to document Nazi atrocities and celebrate the Allied liberation of North Africa.

It mimics the structure, style, and language of Megillat Esther read during the holiday of Purim. It was created to record contemporary history through a traditional Jewish lens, functioning as a modern liturgical scroll.Tone: Unlike the joyous tone of traditional Purim celebrations, the author stressed that the scroll must be read with solemnity and sadness because millions of European Jews had already been murdered. Preserved copies of the text can be viewed in three well-known Holocaust museums: Yad Vashem, Washington and Porto.

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The early chapters recount Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, the spread of Nazi rule across Europe, and the systematic plunder and murder of Jewish communities. It casts Hitler in the role of Haman—the ancient Persian villain from the Purim story who attempted to destroy the Jewish people.

The final chapters focus on the November 1942 Allied landing in North Africa (Operation Torch), which ousted the pro-Nazi Vichy French regime and saved Morocco's Jewish population from the Holocaust. It adapts traditional responsive phrases from the Book of Esther, explicitly cursing Axis leaders like Hitler and Mussolini while blessing Allied leaders like Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.