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29551. Pragya Kaul
Switzerland, and India to trace the migration of Jewish and non-Jewish European refugees to British India. Her ... work draws upon her knowledge of Hindi, Urdu, Yiddish, and German, to access both Jewish and Indian ... perspectives on Jewish refugeedom in the British Empire. She is well-versed in the use of photographs, oral ... histories, and institutional records in order to uncover Jewish experiences of refuge in a world of empires
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29552. Crédits et remerciements
Videosource, New York, United States American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, New York, United States ... Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, Tel Aviv, Israel ... Library Limited, London, Great Britain Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives ... Cincinnati, United States Jewish Historical Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, Yugoslavia Jewish Museum of
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29553. Fred Flatow
only Jewish boy in his class, Fred did not participate. He was bullied by his classmates, many of whom ... had transferred him to the Jewish school, located in the city’s new synagogue, while Manfred remained ... (Nazi) Party established itself in Königsberg as early as 1929. While the city had a small Jewish ... community of about 3,200 in 1928, by 1939, only 1,586 Jewish residents remained. Parades and festivals
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29554. Alma Heckman
"Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists, 1930-1960." Ms. Heckman earned her Master’s degree in ... Travel Grant from the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies in 2012 as well as a Bluma Appel Fellowship for ... academic year 2013-2014; an American Academy for Jewish Research (AAJR) travel grant for Summer 2013; and a ... Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists, 1930-1960.” Ms. Heckman’s first published article “Packed in Twelve
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29555. Dr. Aron Rodrigue
Professor of Jewish Studies, and Co-Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University ... the field of Jewish Studies with his in-depth research and writing on the history and culture of the ... received both an Honor Award in Sephardic Studies from the National Jewish Book Council as well as the ... Israélite Universelle and Politics of Jewish Schooling in Turkey, 1860-1925 (Indiana University Press, 1990
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29556. Dr. Anna Holian
Chicago. For her Sosland Foundation Fellowship, she conducted research on “Jewish Space in Germany after ... researched Jewish space in Germany after the Holocaust, focusing specifically on the Möhlstrasse in ... world and their place in it, she examined how Jewish displaced persons (DPs) created autonomous social ... on how Jewish survivors appropriated “German” space for their own political and economic activities
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29557. Dr. Kierra Crago-Schneider
Professional Background Dr. Kierra Crago-Schneider is historian at the Conference on Jewish ... Angles in 2013, an MA in Jewish history from the University of California- Los Angles in 2007, as well as ... conducted research on her project, “Neighbors or Nemeses? A Study of Polish and Jewish Displaced Persons in ... Interests? An Examination of German and American Perceptions of Jewish Displaced Persons Active on the Black
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29558. Peter Bergson
British Mandate) to grant Jewish statehood on both banks of the Jordan River and to allow unlimited ... Jewish immigration into Palestine. The IZL conducted violent reprisals for Arab attacks on Jews and also ... to mobilize support for the IZL, facilitate creation of Jewish military units to fight against Nazi ... Germany, and gather support for a Jewish state in Palestine. Bergson founded a series of interlocking
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29559. Bergen-Belsen: Key Dates
. July 7, 1943The first transport of Jewish prisoners arrives in the “special camp ... ” (Sonderlager) from Poland. August 13, 1943The first transport of Jewish prisoners ... 1943The SS establishes the “star camp” (Sternlager) when the first transport of Jewish ... camp,” which housed non-Jewish prisoners whom the SS authorities had brought to Bergen-Belsen to
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29560. On Reassuming My Identity
occupied, the German authorities gradually introduced anti-Jewish laws, which became harsher as time ... August of the same year, the German occupiers started rounding up entire Jewish families, including ... split up. We went into hiding separately with the assistance of a Jewish and Belgian underground ... Germans and their collaborators. I was hidden for two years, but unlike other Jewish children who were
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29561. A Bedtime Story
Jewish population were gradually and systematically increased so that each new one was a relatively ... small step up from the previous ones. The “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” was decided at the ... German officer in charge of Jewish affairs in Belgium to deport 10,000 Jews to Auschwitz. An appeal was ... strategies. In August 1942, the Germans started raiding Jewish neighborhoods. The first three raids took
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29562. Past Symposia
Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies, the Department of History, the Hoffberger Family Foundation, and the ... event. Muslims and Jews: Challenging the Dynamics of Hate (2014) Muslim and Jewish populations each ... conversation about these two histories might illuminate not only the Jewish-Muslim relationship today but also ... these topics in the American South. This program was made possible by the Legacy Heritage Jewish
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29563. The United States and the Holocaust, 1942–45
murdered. The World Jewish Congress’s representative in Switzerland ... this news, Jewish communities in many Allied nations held rallies and vigils, and declared Wednesday ... rescue Jews. Some worried that appeals on behalf of Jewish victims would result in an antisemitic ... Bergson and his Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe embarked on a propaganda campaign
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29564. Voyage of the St. Louis
"stateless."The majority of the Jewish passengers had applied for US visas, and had planned to stay in Cuba ... State Department in Washington, the US consulate in Havana, some Jewish organizations, and refugee ... November 9–10, 1938, the German government had sought to accelerate the pace of forced Jewish emigration ... nations to admit large numbers of Jewish refugees to justify the Nazi regime's anti-Jewish goals and
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29565. The United States and the Nazi Threat: 1933–37
boycott of Jewish businesses; the April 7 ... refusing to salute the Nazi flag, or just because the attackers thought the victim looked Jewish. US ... In response to these news reports about Nazi anti-Jewish policies and violence against Jews, American ... Jewish organizations and labor unions drew tens of thousands of people to
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29566. Belzec
cities and towns with significant Jewish populations. Among these towns were Lublin and Lvov ... eventually replaced by Jewish forced laborers, many of them skilled carpenters. The basic installations were ... in place by February 1942. German officials then brought in the first transports of Jewish prisoners ... the Jewish forced laborers engaged in the construction of the camp
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29567. SS and the Holocaust
state apparatus for authority to direct efforts towards a “solution” of the so-called Jewish question in ... Germany. The SS established a special department in the SD to “research” the “Jewish question” in ... demonstrated imaginative leadership in “Jewish matters” (Judenangelegenheiten) by creating a one-stop ... they were Jewish. The incarceration of around 30,000 German, Austrian, and Sudeten Jews in
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29568. Theresienstadt: Key Dates
preference for Theresienstadt as the site for a Jewish “settlement” for those ... Gestapo office IV B 4 under Adolf Eichmann and the Prague Office for Jewish ... first Jewish construction detachment arrives in Theresienstadt. November 24, 1941–April ... appoints Prague Zionist leader Jacob Edelstein chairperson of the Council of Jewish Elders, responsible for
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29569. Xu Xin
currently as director of the Glazer Institute of Jewish Studies. He teaches new generations of Chinese ... students about Jewish history, culture, and the lessons of the Holocaust. XU XIN: I've been involved in ... Jewish studies because I believe if there's something new to me, something attract me, something can ... Institute of Jewish Studies. He teaches new generations of Chinese students about Jewish history, culture
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29570. Robert "Bob" Behr
employing in their households non-Jewish German women under 45 years old. Robert’s beloved nanny, Betty ... Hauck, had to stop working for them. Jewish children were excluded from many schools, and eventually ... Germany because he was Jewish. In the late 1930s, he was fortunate to be able to attend a German-Jewish ... Kroners. The German families could no longer pay tuition, forcing the school to close. The Swedish Jewish
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29571. I Never Knew Their Names
grace of the Lord above and by the kindness of Jewish women, the women who helped me. I never knew ... straw and cried. A Jewish woman asked me why I was crying and when I told her about the bread that ... stockings, just a dress, a pair of underwear, a pair of shoes, and a blanket. A Jewish woman who ... ground, Jewish women picked me up and helped me walk. They did not leave me behind to die. If you stayed
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29572. The Holocaust and Asia: Refugees, Memory, and Material Culture
University, and Ran Zwigenberg, Asian Studies, History and Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State ... refugees in India/Pakistan have compared themselves to Jewish refugees, and memory activists across Asia ... of Jewish refugees fled through Asia. In Asia, these Jewish refugees appeared as poor white Europeans ... workshop explores Jewish and Asian involvement in the Holocaust and its memory. Our workshop examines the
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29573. Foehrenwald Displaced Persons Camp
Jewish DP installations. It was established by the US Army near the town of Wolfratshausen shortly after ... structures were converted into a camp for Jewish refugees in June 1945. A large number of Foehrenwald's DPs ... camp, which, in addition to Jewish DPs, also housed non-Jewish DPs from Poland, Yugoslavia, Hungary ... and the Baltic states. It was changed to a strictly Jewish DP camp on October 3, 1945, after
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29574. Emanuel Ringelblum and the Creation of the Oneg Shabbat Archive
an active role in Jewish public life, working as a high school teacher and as an employee of the ... American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Poland. Ringelblum also began to develop a ... reputation as a serious historian of Polish-Jewish life. He formed a historical society with a group of other ... Polish-Jewish historians. He became one of the group’s leading scholars and an editor of the society
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29575. Locating the Victims
or killed. Records included those created by Jewish communities of their members, parish records of ... Nazi officials required Jews to identify themselves as Jewish, and many complied, fearing the ... citizens often showed authorities where their Jewish neighbors lived, if they did not themselves help in ... Latvia, Estonia), and the Soviet Union, in many cases in mostly Jewish communities readily located by the