louis armstrong, the legendary trumpet player and singer, was raised by a jewish family, and wore a star of david pendant to honor them. he could also speak fluent yiddish.

after capturing denmark, adolph hitler ordered all danish jews to wear the star of david armband. within hours of the order, all danish citizens wore the armband. danish king christian x said, 'i am my country's first jew.'

polish doctor eugene lazowski saved 8,000 jews during the holocaust by injecting them with dead typhus cells. because of the injections, the ghetto residents and people in the surrounding area tested positive for typhus. the nazis, fearing that they would catch the disease, quarantined it, and would not enter it during the entire length of the war.

the leica camera company smuggled jews out of nazi germany by telling authorities that they were employees assigned overseas. they gave each refugee a leica camera and a monthly stipend until they found work.

more polish jews were killed in the holocaust than jews from any other country - roughly 3 million. russia lost roughly 1 million, hungary about 600,000, and germany about 200,000. other countries' stats can be found here.

jews are only 3% of the u.s. population, but have won 27% of all nobel prizes awarded to americans for science. because education.

during the crusades, jews and muslims fought side-by-side to defend jerusalem from the european invaders.

in 1938, president franklin roosevelt convened a conference of 32 countries in evian, france to decide what to do about the jewish refugees fleeing germany. hitler said that, if the other countries agreed to take the jews, that germany would help them to leave, 'for all i care, even on luxury ships'.

none of the countries that attended - including the united states - agreed to take the jews in, paving the way for the genocide of more than 6 million people.