Jakob Rosenfeld went from Vienna to Shanghai in 1939 as a Jewish refugee, and after seeing the Chinese persecuted by the Japanese army of occupation, the Austrian Jew decided to join Mao's New Fourth Army in 1941. He served in the Chinese Army ten years, attaining the rank of a general - or General Luo as he was known in China.

He became a legend as the young doctor on the frontlines, operating tirelessly on war wounded with only the light from a flashlight. He also waged his own war to improve hygiene and trained dozens of Chinese doctors in the methods of modern medicine.

"He was a great hero and a humanist, admired by the army and the population, who saved thousands of lives," China's ambassador to Austria, Lu Yonghua, told AFP in 2006.

Ho Feng-Shan was a Chinese diplomat in Vienna who risked his own life and career during World War II to save thousands of Jews. He served as the Chinese Consul General in Vienna from 1938 – 1940. Despite being ordered to desist by his supervisors, he remained steadfast in his principles and continued his extraordinary humanitarian efforts by facilitating the safe departure of thousands of Jews by issuing visas to the Chinese port city of Shanghai.

Zeev Jabotinsky, "An Open Letter to M. M. Vinaver", published in the St. Petersburg daily Ryetch, 1907:

“I never hid my banner and I will never try to hide it; I am a Zionist and I do not conceive of Jewish welfare outside of Zionism.

But I don't consider Jews in Russia as strangers or foreigners; our forefathers had been living in many regions of Russia hundreds of years before their present masters arrived there; we have contributed to Russia's economic development, we have created her flourishing commerce in the south-west, we have enlivened and enriched her border towns; our nation has sacrificed many maybe too many lives of our youth for her liberation.

The 1929 Palestine riots, also known as the Western Wall Uprising, refer to a series of riots and pogroms from August 23 - 29, 1929 when a dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem escalated into violence. During the week of riots, 133 Jews were killed by Arabs and 339 others were injured, while 110 Arabs were killed by British police and 232 were injured.

A violent pestilence ravaged Europe from 1347 AD to 1350 AD. It was called The Black death (Black plague, Great Pestilence) and killed between 30 and 60% of Europe's population (about 25-50 million deaths). It was also an occasion for terrible pogroms that killed large numbers of Jews. Even where records exist, it is impossible to determine what percentage of Jews who died were victims of the plague, and how many died in persecutions and pogroms.

George Washington is remembered in Jewish history for the letter he wrote to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, Rhode Island in August 1790. The letter is addressed to "the children of the stock of Abraham" and poetically quoted the Old Testament, vowing that the new government "gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance."

The 43 Group fought renewed fascism in the UK after World War II. It was set up by Jewish ex-servicemen who were horrified to see fascist salutes on the streets of Britain upon returning as heroes. The activities of fascist groups included anti-Semitic speeches in public places, inciting racial hatred, and from the rank-and-file fascists, violent attacks on Jews and Jewish property.

The Kishinev pogrom took place on April 6-7, 1903 in the capital of the Bessarabia province of the Russian Empire (now the capital of Moldova). What made the pogrom special was a Hebrew poem written by Chaim Nachman Bialik, considered the national poet of the Jewish people, in which he disparaged the Jewish passivity in the face of pogrom violence.