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29651. Displaced Persons Camps in the Steiermark District
approximately 600 Jewish DPs. The accommodations consisted of wooden barracks typical of such camps ... Due to the British plan to use the camp as a transient center, the occupiers transferred the Jewish ... Refugee Organization) and was located near an industrial community. Trofaiach held many Jewish refugees as ... cinema. He also saw to the medical needs of the Jewish inmates, bringing a doctor and medicines to their
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29652. Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp
named Saarburg Kaserne. Initially, the camp housed both Jewish DPs and non-Jewish deportees from East ... labor. But the camp’s Jewish American commandant, Irving Heymont, insisted that the camp become solely a ... Jewish DP camp, which happened in the autumn of 1945 ... ." But the population of 5,000 Jewish DPs in Landsberg had not been defeated, and within months had
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29653. Cinecittà Displaced Persons Camp
persons (DPs) in Italy, and as a DP camp that housed 680 Jewish refugees in 1947. The camp was founded by ... that year, the camp reached a capacity of 1,800 Jewish and non-Jewish DPs ... The executive staff of the Joint (The American Jewish Joint Distribution ... Merkaz ha-Plitim) also convened there and published the chief Jewish DP newspaper of Italy
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29654. Vilna
,000 at this time, including over 55,000 Jews. In addition, some 12,000-15,000 Jewish refugees from German ... issued a series of anti-Jewish decrees. During the same month, German ... Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing squads) aided by Lithuanian auxiliaries killed 5,000 Jewish men at Ponary forest ... The Vilna ghetto had a significant Jewish resistance movement. A group
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29655. Benjamin Meed
ghetto wall who distributed the April 23, 1943, appeal from the Jewish Fighting Organization ... would endure for decades. The Meeds helped plan the 1981 World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust ... American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors to prepare for a 1983 gathering in Washington, DC, which ... Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, the most comprehensive database of survivors and their families in
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29656. Capers Funnye, Jr.
[skullcap] and a small tallit [prayer shawl] everyday, I'd say I was Jewish and people would look. And ... Jewish people gave me a more curious look than other people. Blacks and white Christians would kind of ... laugh: "You can’t be Jewish." Because there was this mindset that the Jewish community in our society ... really strengthened me for dealing with people's lack of understanding about my being Jewish. And it
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29657. Gitele
register with their local Jewish council set up by the Germans to help them carry out their anti-Jewish ... decrees. Sometime in late 1941, my father was summoned by the Jewish Council in Antwerp, where we were ... coming back, my father decided to ignore the letter from the Jewish Council. Jews who didn’t report ... decided to move surreptitiously to Brussels, where they would not register us with the Jewish council
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29658. Spiritual Resistance—The Hanging
where they were tortured and beaten. Sometimes the Jewish Council intervened and the people were let ... out from jail. Records show that at the end of May, the Jewish Council was called to the Gestapo ... Mazavecki was just trying to bring a little food for his wife and little girl. The Jewish Council tried ... Jewish men were to be appointed to be the henchmen. On Black Sunday, the beginning of June, all the Jews
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29659. George Pick: Antisemitism in Hungary
-Jewish laws modeled on those in Germany. LISTEN [audio file="{filedir_2}FP_20090715.mp3 ... screaming anti-Jewish, you know, "Death to the Jews!" etc. And my mother and I were very frightened ... they had some culture left in particularly the Hungarian intelligentsia, to recognize that a Jewish kid ... is just as much of a kid as a non-Jewish kid. BILL BENSON: So some sliver of remorse over having
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29660. Gerald Liebenau: Memories of Kristallnacht
also known as the “Night of Broken Glass.” On November 9-10, 1938, a wave of violent anti-Jewish ... pogroms erupted around Germany, leaving Jewish owned businesses and synagogues plundered and destroyed ... November 9-10, 1938, a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms erupted around Germany, leaving Jewish owned ... store that was Jewish, but they also set every synagogue on fire that they could get away with. My
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29661. The Death Certificate That Saved Our Lives
in Jewish custom. As a matter of fact, we cannot even observe a proper yahrzeit because we do not ... yahrzeit, the anniversary of a parent’s death in Jewish custom. As a matter of fact, we cannot even observe ... not of his own volition, but as part of a forced labor battalion whose Jewish members mostly died, but ... post-World War I anti-Jewish law, which limited Jewish participation in higher education. By 1944
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29662. Lodz
southwest of Warsaw, Poland. The Jews of Lodz formed the second largest Jewish community in prewar Poland ... responsibility of Jewish ghetto police. The ghetto area was divided into three parts by the intersection of two ... thoroughfares connected the three segments of the ghetto. Streetcars for the non-Jewish population of Lodz ... ghetto and used Jewish residents for forced labor. By July 1942, there were 74 workshops within the
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29663. Herzogenbusch Subcamps
prisoners from the Jewish transit camp (Judendurchgangslager) and about 600 prisoners from the ... were sent back to their original camps, and other, non- Jewish, prisoners entered the camp ... to September 1944. In the first period of this Kommando, Jewish prisoners had to expand rifle ... Initially, some 500 male prisoners from the Jewish transit camp (Judendurchgangslager) were
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29664. Adolf Eichmann
surveillance of Jewish organizations. Assigned to a section dealing with Zionist activities, Eichmann ... in March 1938, Eichmann personally led a raid on the Jewish Cultural Community offices. He then ... worked to organize a Central Office for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstelle für jüdische ... created a template—often called the "Vienna Model"—or a Reich-wide Reich Central Office for Jewish
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29665. The Evian Conference
November 1938 was widely reported, Americans remained reluctant to welcome Jewish refugees. In the midst of ... failed: the Wagner-Rogers bill, an effort to admit 20,000 endangered Jewish refugee children, was not ... France, to discuss the German-Jewish refugees. The United States encourages all countries to find a long ... German Jewish children. May 1939 British government restricts immigration into
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29666. Ghettos in Occupied Poland
1941, several million more Jews came under Nazi rule. The Germans aimed to control this sizable Jewish ... "Jewish residential quarters." Altogether, the Germans created at least 1,000 ghettos in occupied ... the ghettos. They sometimes had to evict non-Jewish residents from the buildings to make room for ... Jewish families. Many of the ghettos were enclosed by barbed-wire fences or walls, with entrances guarded
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29667. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
resistance movements formed in about 100 Jewish groups. The most famous attempt by Jews to resist the Germans ... (for the Polish name, Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, which means Jewish Fighting Organization). The ŻOB ... led by 23-year-old Mordecai Anielewicz, issued a proclamation calling for the Jewish people to resist ... surviving inhabitants. About 700 young Jewish fighters fought the heavily armed and well-trained Germans
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29668. Earl G. Harrison: Biography
especially Jewish Holocaust survivors, and for resettling them, particularly in ... 's report of August 1945 harshly criticized the US and British treatment of Jewish DPs, called for major ... changes to Jewish DP policy, and recommended steps to resettle DPs in the United States and to increase ... Jewish emigration to Palestine. The US Army moved quickly to create separate camps for Jewish DPs and
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29669. Fritz Gluckstein
Fritz Gluckstein was born on January 24, 1927 in Berlin, Germany to a Jewish father and a Christian ... restrictions imposed on the Jews of Germany, including the wearing of the Yellow Star. In 1942, his Jewish ... school was closed and he was sent to work cleaning up a Jewish cemetery. On his 16th birthday, he was ... cards. He was then interned with other husbands and children of non-Jewish women in a building on the
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29670. Ms. Kimberly Cheng
Hebrew and Judaic Studies and History at New York University. Her major field is Modern Jewish History ... Pennsylvania and an A.B. from Cornell University in History and Jewish Studies. Ms. Cheng's research languages ... project, “Between Empires: Central European Jewish Refugees and Chinese Residents in Wartime Shanghai ... 1937-1948.” This research examines Central European Jewish refugee life in Shanghai during World War II
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29671. Dr. Andrea Löw
Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933-1945” ("Jewish persecution 1933-1945"). From ... in Eastern Europe, Jewish history during the Holocaust and the history of the ghettos. Fellowship ... the local Jewish population, and at times with the non-Jewish population and with German officials ... expectations and experiences of Jewish men, women, and children (and those defined as “Jewish”) who were
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29672. Types of Ghettos
Jewish population and forced them to live under miserable conditions. Ghettos isolated Jewish communities ... by separating them both from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities. The Germans ... Jewish population ... collaborators deported or shot the Jewish population concentrated in them. These existed in German-occupied
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29673. Mirjam Waterman Pinkhof
began teaching at the Kees Boeke school. A group of German-Jewish refugees came to the school in 1939 ... Mirjam lived in an isolated place and had not heard much about Hitler or the anti-Jewish laws in Germany ... until the refugees came. There was a Jewish Youth Immigration home near her parents' farm where about 60 ... German-Jewish youngsters lived; some had been Mirjam's students. One of their leaders was Menachem
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29674. The Order Police
-Jewish Violence In the 1930s, the Order Police continued to ... -Jewish legislation. The Order Police rarely intervened to protect Jews or Jewish-owned property from ... crowd of teenage boys to beat and kick a Jewish man in the streets. The boys were not arrested ... . Order Policemen degraded and demeaned Jews. They were known to shave the beards of religious Jewish men
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29675. Mass Shootings of Jews during the Holocaust
Poland and Romania that had large Jewish populations. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in ... local Jews. At first, these units targeted Jewish men of military age. But by August 1941, they had ... started massacring entire Jewish communities, regardless of age or gender. This marked a radical ... escalation in Nazi anti-Jewish policy that ultimately culminated in the “Final