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26. In Plain Sight
October morning in 1940, Nazi authorities in the small German town of Lörrach notified Jewish ... inhabitants that they had two hours to pack. The town’s Jewish residents were then deported to the Gurs ... Jewish people deported from Lörrach that day were later transported to Auschwitz, a killing center ... in occupied Poland. Few survived. Neighbors watching Gestapo officials Jewish men and women
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27. Oral History: Manfred Wildmann
Oral History: Manfred Wildmann _v7Lpp46AhY A Town Gathers to See Jewish Neighbors Deported Oral ... German authorities ordered all Jewish people aged 10 to 80 in Philippsburg, Germany, to pack their ... belongings. Neighbors gathered at the station as the humiliated Jewish families were forced to board trains ... destined for a detention camp in France. Manfred Wildmann and his family were among the 21 Jewish
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28. A Stranger Offers Sanctuary
Sanctuary Jewish and Christian Lithuanians socialized, did business, and attended school together in the ... years before World War II. Despite rising anti-Jewish sentiment, some became friends, and others even ... in the Lithuanian army, was Jewish. Ada studied dance and went to school with both Jewish and
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29. Excelling in the Workplace
After German troops occupied the Netherlands in October 1940, each Jewish person was required to ... ID cards, which Jewish people were forced to carry with them at all times. Whether motivated by ... a hatred of Jewish people, career opportunity, or simply a desire to succeed in his job, Lentz ... fingerprint, and signature of each Jewish person registered. The cards also featured a large black letter
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30. A Rare Warning to Victims
Victims Paris police organized another roundup in July 1942. This time, Jewish women and children were ... arrested along with Jewish men and sent to French internment camps. While many police officers were ... carrying out arrests on July 16, an officer named Théophile Larue was warning Jewish neighbors of ... the approaching danger. Officer Larue and his wife then hid two Jewish women in their home for a week
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31. A Letter to “Mademoiselle Jeanne”
anti-Jewish violence in Germany. After Germany occupied Belgium, his mother was desperate to protect ... Jewish children. Jeanne hid four-year-old Harry with a non-Jewish Belgian family. He lived with ... hundreds of Jewish children who owe our lives to you. During my first attempt to write to you, I had great ... Jewish people, and your fearless courage in the face of extreme danger. Belgium Rescue
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32. Sorting Looted Goods
or worked in trades. Some saw the country’s Jewish minority as a wealthy, privileged class ... . When German authorities rounded up, shot, and deported their Jewish neighbors, many Lithuanians saw an ... opportunity to improve their own quality of life. They raided Jewish people’s homes, businesses, and
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33. Answering a Call for “Backup”
received a message from the Gestapo asking for help in arresting members of the city’s Jewish male ... population. In this photograph, a Stadthagen police officer helps the Gestapo round up several local Jewish ... other concentration camps. Kristallnacht The Role of the German Police Jewish men being arrested Nazi SS
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34. Gutted by Flames
Gutted by Flames A Friend Joins an Anti-Jewish Mob Gutted by Flames Ruth Rack was shocked when she ... that Jews were now unwelcome in Germany. Jewish people could expect to face violence from their non ... -Jewish neighbors.
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35. Screams and Shattered Glass
” Local people raid a Jewish-owned store during the anti-Jewish violence of November 1938. Nazi Party
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36. Displaced Persons
Jewish survivors were often held in the same camps with German civilians, or even Nazi perpetrators ... . Better Treatment for Jewish Survivors In the summer of 1945, President Harry Truman asked former US ... exterminate them.” Based on Harrison’s report, the United States established separate camps for Jewish DPs ... special provisions for Jewish DPs. Between the establishment of the DP camps in 1945 and the closure of
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37. Attacks on Jews Shock Americans
Nazi Party’s SA militia and Hitler Youth destroyed hundreds of synagogues and thousands of Jewish-owned ... shops. Nearly 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps. American newspapers ... unleashed a series of attacks against the Jewish population in Germany and its recently incorporated
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38. Oral History: Regina Prudnikova
. Born to a Christian family in Lithuania, Regina Prudnikova had once worked for a local Jewish family as ... near Regina’s town, Pilviškių. Regina watched as her neighbors then broke into Jewish ... Jewish neighbors, recalling how she and others took advantage of attacks on Jews to steal their
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39. Oral History: Stefan Kucharek
Kucharek attended school with Polish-Jewish neighbors and later worked various jobs in his small town of ... doing track maintenance. He soon got a job driving trains full of Jewish victims into the trainyard of ... the facility in late 1943, camp personnel had murdered more than 900,000 Jewish people in Treblinka
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40. Film: Standing by on Kristallnacht
of November 9, 1938. Over the following days, non-Jewish Germans joined Nazi security forces in ... terrorizing and beating Jewish people in the streets. Across Germany, they burned synagogues and looted ... with the burning and destruction of Jewish businesses and places of worship in Bielefeld, Germany. They
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41. Oral History: Juozas Aleksynas
Oral History: Juozas Aleksynas BAE7b6BV7R0 Local “Auxiliary Police” Shoot Jewish ... Security Police and participated in several massacres of Jewish people in eastern Europe in 1941. In this ... interview, Aleksynas strains to explain what led him to shoot Jewish parents and their small children
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42. A Steady Job—With “Benefits”
anti-Jewish laws. They also helped to confine Jews to ghettos, where many died of starvation and ... expense of a desperate Jewish population. For many officers, blackmail, robbery, and bribes could provide ... police Jewish men
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43. Deceiving the Victims
Paris police speak to Jewish couples during a wave of mass arrests of Jewish men in May 1941. Officers ... occupied France in 1940, French officials helped to implement anti-Jewish policies. In 1941, Paris police
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44. Boycott the Olympics?
violated Olympic rules by denying equal training and competition opportunities to Jewish and other minority ... Jewish-led conspiracy of “radicals and Communists.” In December 1935, the Amateur Athletic Union narrowly ... -American and Jewish athletes faced pressure from within their respective communities to take a moral stand ... against Nazism. Some resented being asked to protest the discrimination against Jewish athletes in Germany
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45. “Dirty Work”
“Dirty Work” Local “Auxiliary Police” Shoot Jewish Civilians “Dirty Work ... to seize Jewish people’s belongings. Others participated because they hated Jews or saw ... political opportunities in working with the Germans. Over 2.5 million Jewish people were killed in these ... officer Ukrainian "auxiliary policeman" Jewish women
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46. Refugee Ships at Sea
Refugee Ships at Sea More than 1,200 ships carrying nearly 111,000 Jewish refugees arrived in New ... . This seven-minute film shows the passage of ships carrying Jewish refugees from Europe to the United
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47. Public Opinion Polls after Kristallnacht
in Germany? Should we allow a larger number of Jewish exiles from Germany to come to the United ... Americans overwhelmingly disapproved of the Nazi treatment of Jews, but most did not want more Jewish
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48. Friends
their most painful memories. A small number of survivors describe great loyalty from their non-Jewish ... Jewish friends and even join in the efforts to persecute them?
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49. Pangs of Conscience
took over her Jewish colleague’s job, Maria was apparently troubled by the plight of Hungarian ... Jews. In late 1944, she began to hide a Jewish friend, Irene Lakos, and Irene’s nephew, Alfred
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50. Forced Sale
Forced Sale Looting Businesses Owned by Jews Forced Sale As part of an effort to exclude Jewish ... . Following Kristallnacht, Walter Tick’s father, Isidor, was forced to sell his store to a non-Jewish