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51. Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed describes waiting at a train station with false documents to be smuggled into the Warsaw ghetto
Vladka belonged to the Zukunft youth movement of the Bund (the Jewish Socialist party). She was ... active in the Warsaw ghetto underground as a member of the Jewish Fighting ... Jewish underground and for Jews in camps, forests, and other ghettos.
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52. Gerda Haas describes postwar reunion with her father in the United States
was the Jewish butcher. She attended German schools until 1936, and then moved to Berlin to attend a ... Jewish school. She returned to her hometown after Kristallnacht in November ... Berlin in 1939 to study nursing. She worked in the Jewish hospital there for two years. Her mother was
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53. Benjamin (Ben) Meed describes Warsaw after the German occupation in 1939 and first experiencing antisemitism
Ben was one of four children born to a religious Jewish family ... helped smuggle people out of the ghetto—including Vladka (Fagele) Peltel, a member of the Jewish Fighting ... -Jewish Pole. During the Warsaw ghetto uprising in 1943, Ben worked with
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54. Benjamin (Ben) Meed describes the burning of the Warsaw ghetto during the 1943 ghetto uprising
Ben was one of four children born to a religious Jewish family ... helped smuggle people out of the ghetto—including Vladka (Fagele) Peltel, a member of the Jewish Fighting ... -Jewish Pole. During the Warsaw ghetto uprising in 1943, Ben worked with
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55. Prison in the Warsaw ghetto
After the Germans established the Warsaw ghetto in 1940, the Jewish council in Warsaw became ... the ghetto's "Jewish prison" run into the courtyard and walk in circles during inspection.
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56. The Nazi Olympics: Introduction
Olympics: Berlin 1936, American Jewish athlete Marty Glickman, US Holocaust Memorial Museum Director ... Sara J. Bloomfield, exhibition curator Susan Bachrach, and German Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann
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57. Hajj Amin al-Husayni meets Hitler
Arab striving for independence, and 3) support the “removal” of the proposed Jewish homeland in ... Palestine. The Führer confirmed that the “struggle against a Jewish homeland in Palestine” would be part of ... destruction of Jewish-Communist European empire”; and when the German army was in proximity to the Arab world
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58. Anita Magnus Frank describes hiding in the Netherlands
shielded their Jewish identity. Anita and her brother first were hidden in a non-Jewish neighbor's home
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59. Jews at forced labor in Belgrade
camps. The German army later shot the Jewish men in retaliation for Serb resistance; the Germans killed ... the Jewish women and children in gas vans. Only about 2,200 Jews of Belgrade returned to the city
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60. US military chiefs visit displaced persons camp
of the first displaced persons camps to house primarily Jewish refugees. In August 1945, Eisenhower ... ordered that Feldafing be used as a model for the establishment of other camps for Jewish displaced
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61. Ruth Meyerowitz describes deportation to and conditions in Ravensbrück
In Frankfurt, Ruth's family faced intensifying anti-Jewish measures; her father's business was ... taken over and Ruth's Jewish school was closed. In April 1943, Ruth and her family were deported to
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62. Goebbels claims Jews will destroy culture
Jewish conspiracy to destroy western civilization. Goebbels led the purge of Jewish and other so-called
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63. US Quakers aid children in defeated France
provided food, shelter, and other aid to thousands of Jewish refugees—especially Jewish children
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64. Edward Adler describes roundup and deportation to the town of Oranienburg, near the Sachsenhausen camp
Edward was born to a Jewish family in Hamburg. In 1935, the Nuremberg ... mid-twenties. Edward was arrested for dating a non-Jewish woman. Classified as a habitual offender, he
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65. Ruth Meyerowitz describes sabotage effort in Malchow munitions factory
In Frankfurt, Ruth's family faced intensifying anti-Jewish measures; her father's business was ... taken over and Ruth's Jewish school was closed. In April 1943, Ruth and her family were deported to
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66. Edward Adler describes deportation to and arrival at the Sachsenhausen camp
Edward was born to a Jewish family in Hamburg. In 1935, the Nuremberg ... mid-twenties. Edward was arrested for dating a non-Jewish woman. Classified as a habitual offender, he
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67. Edward Adler describes forced labor and conditions in the Sachsenhausen camp
Edward was born to a Jewish family in Hamburg. In 1935, the Nuremberg ... mid-twenties. Edward was arrested for dating a non-Jewish woman. Classified as a habitual offender, he
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68. Hans Heimann describes Italian aid to Jews
worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and helped ... resettle Jewish refugees.
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69. Ivo Herzer describes assistance from Italian soldiers during his family's escape from Croatia
Ivo grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Zagreb. He experienced little overt ... Jewish refugees. Ivo lived in Italian internment camps, including the Rab island camp, before moving to
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70. British soldiers deport "Exodus 1947" passengers
In July 1947 in France, 4,500 Jewish refugees from displaced persons camps in Germany boarded ... British soldiers removed the Jewish refugees. After British authorities failed to force France to accept
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71. Protest in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp over return of "Exodus 1947" passengers
In July 1947, 4,500 Jewish refugees left displaced persons camps in Germany and boarded the ... passengers became a symbol of the struggle for unrestricted Jewish immigration to Palestine.
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72. Miriam Farcus Ingber describes witnessing a suicide attempt in the Stutthof camp
Miriam was one of ten children born to a poor, religious Jewish family in Terava ... 's Jewish population was deported and sent to labor camps. Later, Miriam and her mother were forced into a
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73. Ivo Herzer describes conditions in the camp in Italian-occupied Yugoslavia to which he was taken in November 1942
Ivo grew up in a middle-class Jewish family in Zagreb. He experienced little overt ... Jewish refugees. Ivo lived in Italian internment camps, including the Rab island camp, before moving to
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74. Kurt Klein describes some of the difficulties involved in emigrating from Germany
As Nazi anti-Jewish policy intensified, Kurt's family decided to ... surrender of a village in Czechoslovakia and returned the next day to assist over 100 Jewish women who had
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75. Kurt Klein describes a group of death march survivors in a Czechoslovak village
As Nazi anti-Jewish policy intensified, Kurt's family decided to ... surrender of a village in Czechoslovakia and returned the next day to assist over 100 Jewish women who had