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29526. Defining the Enemy
. Anti-Jewish Propaganda ... lay the groundwork for the announcement of major anti-Jewish statutes at Nuremberg on September 15 ... 1935—the Nuremberg Race Laws. The decrees followed a wave of anti-Jewish ... . The laws affected some 450,000 “full Jews” (defined as those with three or four Jewish grandparents
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29527. Public Humiliation
Jews were also frequent targets for this type of individual humiliation. In 1933, a Jewish lawyer named ... Michael Siegel went to the Munich police to file a report on behalf of his Jewish client, Max Uhlfelder ... Other forms of humiliation specifically targeted symbols of Jewish identity. Many religious Jewish men ... were shaved. Other Jews were forced to pose with Jewish ritual objects including tallitim and tefillin
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29528. Blood Libel
poisoning, were a major theme in Jewish persecution in Europe throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern ... Jewish dietary laws (kashrut), forbid the consumption of blood in food and require all blood to be ... motif of the Jewish need for Christian blood spread throughout the Middle Ages. It was combined with ... alleged that he had been kidnapped and murdered by the local Jewish community in order to make matzah for
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29529. The Rosenstraße Demonstration, 1943
Background Between February 27 and March 6, 1943, a group of up to 200 non-Jewish ... Germans demonstrated outside the local Jewish community building at Rosenstraße 2-4, in ... Berlin. There, German police had incarcerated around 2,000 Jews—mostly Jewish males married to non-Jewish ... . The non-Jewish family members of those incarcerated in the Rosenstraße believed that the Germans would
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29530. Frequently Asked Questions
Minnesota Press, 1992. Kurzweil, Arthur. From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy ... Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy. (New York: Random House, 1977). 401 pages. The ... Jewish roots in Poland : pages from the past and archival inventories. (New York, N.Y. : YIVO Institute ... for Jewish Research ; Secaucus, N.J. : The Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots, Inc., c1997) Weiner, Miriam
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29531. The Krakow (Cracow) Ghetto during the Holocaust
Jewish Population of Krakow, Poland Founded before the end of the first millennium, the ... Krakow, almost one-quarter of a total population of about 250,000. By November 1939, the Jewish ... ); form a Jewish Council (November 1939); identify themselves by means of a white armband with a blue Star ... southern suburb of Krakow, rather than in Kazimierz, the traditional Jewish quarter of the city. By March
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29532. The Holocaust at the Crossroads of Empire
Co-organized with the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies March 4, 2021 Join the Museum ... and the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies for a discussion with scholars from Ghana, Israel ... .S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Sarah Abrevaya Stein, Viterbi Family Endowed Chair in Mediterranean Jewish ... Studies, and Sady and Ludwig Kahn Director, Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, University of
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29533. Aliyah Bet
the movement of Jewish refugees, many of them survivors of the Holocaust ... entry. Jewish refugees found many ways to evade the British immigration quotas. However, travel by ship ... Mossad l'Aliyah Bet (Organization for "Illegal" Immigration, established by the Jewish leadership in ... After World War II, the number of Jewish refugees seeking to enter Palestine increased dramatically
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29534. JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database / Web Author, Warren Blatt ; Database Author, Michael Tobias.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Indexes. ... Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Belarus --Bereza. ... Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Belarus --Brest. ... Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Belarus --Delyatichi.
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29535. Frances Tanzer
Professional Background Dr. Frances Tanzer is the Rose Professor of Jewish Culture and Holocaust ... of these themes. She has received fellowships from the Center for Jewish History, the German ... . Currently, Dr. Tanzer is working on a book entitled, Vanishing Vienna: Jewish Absence in Postwar ... . This book focuses on how Jews and non-Jews experienced, confronted, and represented Jewish absence
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29536. Paris
Jewish prayer house in the city. German Security Police official Theodor Dannecker, the SS "Jewish expert ... ," ordered the centralization of Jewish organizations, "Aryanization" or transfer to non-Jewish ownership of ... Jewish businesses, and several other anti-Jewish measures. During 1940-1941, the Germans arrested 10 ... Germans began to deport Jewish residents of orphanages, nursing homes, and hospitals. Early in 1944, the
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29537. Ruth Arnoldi Kohn
fellow classmate and daughter of a Nazi Party member called her “Saujude” or “Jewish pig.” Eventually ... Ruth was forced to leave her school because she was Jewish. Ruth was enrolled in a Jewish girls’ school ... -Jewish pogroms, which took place throughout Germany on the night of November 9-10, 1938, would come to be ... known as Kristallnacht. When the Arnoldis heard about the widespread arrests of Jewish men that took
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29538. Sara Lipton
Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography, Lipton traces the development and evolution of antisemitic images in ... Dark Mirror: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Jewish Iconography, Lipton traces the development and ... pretty much the whole first half of the Middle Ages, you could not tell a Jewish person visually by ... after the year 1000. One manuscript in particular begins to show some Jewish figures wearing pointed
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29539. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Warns of Danger in Hungarian Plan to Honor Antisemitic Holocaust-Era Government Minister
industry, commerce, banking, media, and cultural life. Following the passage of the first “Jewish Law” in ... May 1938, which restricted Jewish participation in professional and cultural life, Homan worked on a ... special committee tasked with writing a second, more restrictive “Jewish Law,” which was submitted to ... parliament in December 1938 and became law in May 1939. This second “Jewish Law” not only further tightened
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29540. Nesse Galperin Godin
Nesse Godin was born Nesa Galperin on March 28, 1928, into an observant Jewish family in Šiauliai ... the importance of community and caring for others. Šiauliai was home to a Jewish community of up to 8 ... authorities deported thousands of Lithuanians (Jewish and non-Jewish) to Siberia. During this period, the ... effect antisemitic policies and decrees, including requiring all members of the Jewish community to wear
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29541. Escape from German-Occupied Europe
1941. However, there were few countries willing to accept Jewish refugees ... Jews escape. Among those who helped Jews were various local and international Jewish organizations ... such as the Joint Distribution Committee, the Jewish Agency for Palestine ... and the World Jewish Congress. In addition, sympathetic non-Jews, motivated by opposition to Nazism
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29542. Chaim Yelin
Meir helped run the library and participated in discussions about Jewish and secular literature and ... journals. He represented Lithuania in 1937 at an international conference in Paris on Jewish culture ... consolidation of Zionist, who were committed to Jewish self-defense, and Communists into one group called "The ... Organization" or the "Jewish General Fighting Organization" (Yidishe Algemeyne Kamfs Organizatsie
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29543. The Nuremberg Race Laws
. Who was Jewish according to the Nuremberg Laws ... ? According to the Nuremberg Laws, a person with three or four Jewish grandparents was a Jew. A grandparent ... was considered Jewish if they belonged to the Jewish religious ... were neither German nor Jewish. These were people who had one or two Jewish grandparents
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29544. The "Night of Broken Glass"
SS, the SA, and the Hitler Youth) to attack Jewish communities. In the hours and days ... that followed, organized groups of Nazis wreaked havoc on Jewish life in Nazi Germany. During the riot ... local Nazis set hundreds of synagogues on fire. They vandalized thousands of Jewish-owned businesses ... They desecrated Jewish cemeteries. They broke into homes, smashed furniture, and terrorized Jewish
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29545. Mobile Killing Squads
as auxiliary police. The mobile killing units acted swiftly, taking the Jewish population by ... surprise. The killers entered a town or city and rounded up all Jewish men, women, and children. They also ... bodies into mass graves. On September 21, 1941, the eve of the Jewish New Year, a mobile killing ... without food or water. Then, in two days of killing, Jewish men, women, and children were taken to
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29546. Reinhard Heydrich: In Depth
Jewish intellectuals who opposed the Nazi regime These “visible” enemies, however ... the “infectious residue” of “Jewish, liberal and Freemasonic spirit,” modes of thinking (democracy ... danger presented by such influences. Ultimately, “invisible” Jewish opponents were the Jewish ... be absolutely safe, the Nazis had to destroy the members of the so-called Jewish race, whose genetic
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29547. The Bielski Partisans
been a Jewish farming family in the nearby village of Stankiewicze, and the brothers knew the region ... authorities and their Belorussian auxiliaries. With the help of non-Jewish Belorussian friends, they were able ... for Jewish escapees in need of protection. Many Jews hiding in the forests in smaller family ... groups joined the Bielski group. Jewish partisans serving in Soviet partisan organizations also fell in
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29548. Hajj Amin al-Husayni: Wartime Propagandist
prominent individual anti-Jewish Arab and Muslim leader. Without any institutional basis for ... Jewish homeland in Palestine. He made this declaration a condition for the awaited general uprising in ... and anti-Jewish propaganda by radio to the Arab world and to Muslim communities under German control ... Arab nations and their right to unify, and a blessing for "the removal of the Jewish national homeland
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29549. Yurii Kaparulin
State University (Ukraine). As the Initiative on Ukrainian-Jewish Shared History and the Holocaust in ... will be conducting research for his project, “Jewish Agrarian Settlements in the Kherson Province ... Military History, Museum Studies, and History of Ukraine in The Second World War. He works with the Jewish ... public about regional Jewish history. Dr. Kaparulin is the author of numerous publications, including
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29550. Dr. Adam Kopciowski
Assistant Professor in Jewish History at the Center for Jewish Studies at Marie Curie-Sklodowska University ... For his Joyce and Arthur Schechter Fellowship, Professor Kopciowski conducted research on “The Jewish ... scholarly articles on the history of the Jewish populations in Zamość and Lublin, Poland. He created and ... published the full list of the Jewish population of Zamość during 1940 and co-authored a Web site about the