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Captain Alfred Dreyfus (5:09)
Date: October 9, 1859, birthday of Alfred Dreyfus Wrongly accused of espionage, Captain Alfred Dreyfus was sentenced to Devil's Island on the basis of remarkably tenuous evidence. Many critics, including the famous writer Emile Zola, argued that Dreyfus was unfairly charged simply because he was a Jew in the French army
Series: This Week in Jewish History
Dr. Henry Abramson (90)