Unearthed Gandhi WWII letter wishes Jews 'era of peace'
Israel's national library has unearthed an 80-year-old handwritten letter that Mahatma Gandhi sent a Jewish official upon the outbreak of World War II.
The father of modern India wrote the Jewish New Year greeting to the head of a local Jewish organization on September 1, 1939 wishing him "an era of peace for your afflicted people."
The letter sheds a new light on Gandhi's complex attitude toward the Nazi persecution of Europe's Jews.
