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29476. Introduction to the Holocaust
“Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” The “Final Solution” was the organized and systematic mass ... the so-called “Jewish race” was the most inferior and dangerous of all. According to the Nazis, Jews ... were a threat that needed to be removed from German society. Otherwise, the Nazis insisted, the “Jewish ... nearly all of Europe’s Jewish population, which in 1933 numbered 9 million people
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29477. Were They Crazy?
the place. The time was fall 1940; the place was Budapest, Hungary; and my parents were Jewish. In ... my parents were Jewish. In defense of those who questioned the sanity of my parents, here are some ... Germany’s staunchest allies was Hungary, where the first anti-Jewish law was enacted in 1920, way before ... Germany’s Nuremberg Laws. This was the infamous “Numerus Clausus” law restricting Jewish enrollment at
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29478. Did Your Mom Pray during the Holocaust?
survival. During the presentation, I mentioned my mother’s Orthodox Jewish upbringing and practices before ... sacred prayers in Jewish liturgy, and I knew it in Hebrew. This traditional Jewish prayer is chanted ... observing Jewish traditions, stopped lighting the Sabbath candles on Friday nights, and stopped going to ... of Jewish people. The story is about some Jewish children who survived the Holocaust in convents and
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29479. Dr. Antony Polonsky
Studies, Contemporary Jewish Writing in Poland: An Anthology (University of Nebraska Press, 2001); with ... 1993); From Shtetl to Socialism: Studies from Polin (Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization ... History of Europe. He is a member of the editorial boards of several scholarly journals: Soviet Jewish ... and Studia Judaica Cracoviensa—Studies in Jewish History, Culture, and Religion, and is editor of
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29480. Ghettos
Origin of the Term "Ghetto" The term "ghetto" originated from the name of the Jewish ... concentrated urban and sometimes regional Jewish populations in ghettos. Living conditions were miserable ... Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities from the non ... -Jewish population and from other Jewish communities. The Germans established at least 1,143 ghettos in
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29481. Introduction to Judaism
Jewish Life and Religious Practices There is a wide ... . Jewish life is guided by its annual and life cycle calendars. The annual calendar is a lunar calendar ... frequently mentioned in the Torah. The other holidays mentioned in the Torah include the Jewish New Year ... -biblical Jewish history. Yom ha
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29482. Women during the Holocaust
regime frequently subjected women, however, both Jewish and non-Jewish, to brutal persecution that was ... the camp authorities established a women's camp in 1944. The SS transferred thousands of Jewish female ... World War II. The Germans and their collaborators spared neither women nor children—Jewish ... or non-Jewish—in conducting mass murder operations. Nazi ideology
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29483. Resistance in the Smaller Ghettos of Eastern Europe: Glossary
organization of Agudat Israel in Poland began in 1916. It was internal Jewish developments, rather than ... understanding of its mission. Aliyah Ascent. Jewish immigration to the land of ... in Lite, Poyln un Rusland". The General Workers' Union was the Jewish Socialist party. Founded in ... those Jews that lacked sufficient general education but were steeped in Jewish culture. It took on
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29484. Dr. August Grabski
Professional Background Dr. August Grabski is an assistant professor at the Jewish Historical ... Institute in Warsaw (Poland). He received his PhD in Jewish studies from the University of Warsaw. Dr ... ’s publications in Polish include: The Central Committee of Polish Jews (1944-1950). A Political History (Jewish ... Historical Institute/ZIH, 2015), and The Left Against Israel. Studies on the Jewish Left Anti-Zionism
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29485. The Reading of Names
Kristallnacht, the nationwide pogrom against the Jewish community in Germany, Austria, and the ... Kristallnacht, the nationwide pogrom against the Jewish community in Germany, Austria, and the occupied ... Brussels, often in close proximity, creating predominantly Jewish neighborhoods. We lived in one such ... the German Authorities issued anti-Jewish measures in incremental steps to avoid alarming the
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29486. To Convert or Not to Convert? That Was the Question
My mother came from a very observant Orthodox Jewish family. Her grandfather was an Orthodox rabbi ... observed the very strict Jewish dietary laws—and she had a strong Jewish education. by Peter Gorog My ... mother came from a very observant Orthodox Jewish family. Her grandfather was an Orthodox rabbi in a ... the very strict Jewish dietary laws—and she had a strong Jewish education. My mother continued the
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29487. Polish Jews in Lithuania: Escape to Japan
tireless efforts of many individuals. Several Jewish organizations and Jewish communities along the way ... activity in 1940 was the pivotal act of rescue for Polish Jewish refugees temporarily residing in Lithuania ... . Leaving Lithuania The pressure on Polish Jewish refugees to leave Lithuania intensified in late ... safely on the Trans-Siberian Railroad to the eastern port of Vladivostok, hundreds of Jewish refugees
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29488. Kloster Indersdorf Displaced Persons Camp
Augsburg, Indersdorf was part of the Munich district of the US zone of occupation. The initial Jewish ... mid-September, 1945, 192 boys and girls from thirteen nations, including 49 Jewish children, were ... service caring for the children. While most of the Jewish children arriving in the early months had ... -Jewish children came from several sources: some had been brought to Germany as forced laborers or the
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29489. Jews in Prewar Germany
. In 1933, the Jewish population of Germany numbered about 525,000. This was less than one percent of ... characteristics tended to define German-Jewish life. These set the Jewish population slightly apart from the rest ... of German society. What was Jewish life like in ... comparison, about 50% of non-Jewish Germans lived in towns with fewer than 10,000 people
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29490. Dr. Michael Brenner
Professional Background Professor Michael Brenner was Chair of Jewish History and Culture at the ... Jerusalem he received a Ph.D. in Jewish history from Columbia University. He has taught previously at ... research on, “German-Jewish History in Modern Times.” At the time of his tenure, Professor Brenner was ... Jewish History, the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, and the Stiftung Bayerischer Gedenkstätten. He was also
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29491. Dr. Albert Kaganovitch
Humanities, University of Manitoba in Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Jewish history from the Hebrew ... Kaganovitch conducted research for his project, “Jewish Refugees in the Eastern Areas of the USSR during World ... in Russian, Rechitsa: The History of a Jewish Shteltl in Southeastern Belarus (2007). He has written ... Jewish Diaspora at the Beginning of the 21st Century” in editors I. Baldauf, M. Grammer and T. Loy
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29492. Dr. Laura Jockusch
research for her project “Beyond Vengeance: Jewish Conceptions of Retributive Justice after the Holocaust ... .” Dr. Jockusch’s dissertation, published as Collect and Record! Jewish Holocaust Documentation in Early ... Jews and from a Jewish perspective in the aftermath of World War II. Comparing the cases of France ... endured, witnessed, and survived the European Jewish catastrophe and that their early postwar initiatives
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29493. Natalia Aleksiun
Professional Background Dr. Natalia Aleksiun is Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History at ... the Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Touro College in New York (USA) and Assistant Professor at ... history from Warsaw University and her second PhD in Jewish studies from New York University. For her ... Jewish history in Poland, the history of historiography, and the Holocaust, including entries for Yad
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29494. Forced Labor
Labor In German-occupied areas, the Nazis singled out Jewish laborers for cruel treatment. Jewish ... having their beards cut. The ghettos served as bases for utilizing Jewish labor, as did forced-labor ... Nazis were often the first to be shot or deported. Jewish labor, even forced labor, was considered ... formalized in October, when the Germans institute forced labor for Jewish men between the ages of 14 and 60
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29495. Frequently Asked Questions about the Holocaust for Educators
their “Jewish blood.” They believed that Jews would still be a threat even if a Jewish person converted ... to Christianity. Antisemitic racism united these new racial theories with older anti-Jewish ... Jewish faith. The Nazis believed Jews belonged to a separate race and had distinct “Jewish blood.” This ... negative stereotypes to Jews and “Jewish” behavior. The Nazis saw Jews as the source of all evil: disease
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29496. Hasan Sarbakhshian and Parvaneh Vahidmanesh
Jewish population for their book Iranian Jews. The effort would eventually cause them to flee Iran, their ... Sarbakhshian and Vahidmanesh began gathering stories and photographs from Iran's dwindling Jewish population ... ninety years ago. They lived in a city called Damavand; the government of that city forced all the Jewish ... people to convert. So I have a complicated family. And I started working with Hasan to document Jewish
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29497. Aomar Boum
see how Muslims see Jewish-Muslim relations going back to early 1900, but also see how Muslims think ... greater hostility. With only a tiny Jewish population left, and limited education about Jewish history or ... now there are no Jews there. There are reminders there that Jews lived in those areas. You have Jewish ... neighborhoods; you have Jewish synagogues; you have Jewish cemeteries. You've got all these reminders that once
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29498. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Warsaw ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto in German-occupied ... ,000 individuals. The Jewish ... . In response to these deportations, several Jewish underground organizations banded together on July ... 28, 1942. They created an armed self-defense unit known as the Jewish Combat Organization
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29499. Resistance in the Smaller Ghettos of Eastern Europe
Warsaw ghetto uprising of April 1943 is often viewed as the classic example of Jewish armed ... resistance to Nazi oppression during the Holocaust. Indeed, most studies of Jewish resistance have focused on ... defenders of the Jewish people. Nonetheless, once the decision was made, Jewish underground groups, both in ... sometimes even before the formation of a ghetto, Jewish youths started to
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29500. Christian Persecution of Jews over the Centuries
to the tensions over Jesus in various Jewish communities are the writings in Greek by ethnic Jews ... gentiles that had produced so much Jewish post-biblical writing was being disavowed by the newly ... Jewish argumentation. Hard fighting and harsh words were no strangers to religious strife among post-70 ... litigants ceased to be ethnically Jewish. That changed everything. The fact was that many Judean Jews knew