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29726. Emigration and the Evian Conference
a public poll at that time opposed changing immigration quotas to allow in more Jewish refugees ... Bill, a 1939 proposal to admit 20,000 endangered Jewish refugee children over two years, was not ... number of Jewish refugees allowed to enter the country. The US economy experienced a recession in 1937 ... attitudes toward Jewish refugees as well, particularly antisemitic stereotypes of Jews as war-mongers and
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29727. Sachsenhausen
Grynszpan, and Joseph Stalin's son, Yakov Dzhugashvili. The number of Jewish prisoners in ... Sachsenhausen steadily decreased, as SS authorities released Jewish prisoners, often in exchange for a stated ... increase in the number of Jewish prisoners when, in mid-September 1939, shortly after ... the number of Jewish prisoners decreased again, as SS authorities deported them from Sachsenhausen to
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29728. The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk
his lifetime for his richly detailed illustrations and illuminations of Jewish themes. Szyk was a ... his people. Szyk found strength in biblical stories of Jewish bravery and martyrdom, and in more ... earning him a reputation as a “one-man army” in the Allied cause. His moving portrayals of Jewish ... Szyk had become perhaps America’s leading artistic advocate for Jewish rescue from Nazi Europe. His
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29729. Adolf Eichmann: Key Dates
makes an inspection tour of Palestine in order to assess the possibility of large-scale voluntary Jewish ... Jewish Emigration (Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung), an agency Eichmann had designed ... for Jewish Emigration in Prague. September 1939SS Chief and Chief of ... Reich Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Berlin (Reichzentrale für jüdische Auswanderung
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29730. 1933: Key Dates
and the Hitler Youth) organize and implement a nationwide boycott of Jewish ... lawyers by September 30, 1933. Exempted from this provision are Jewish lawyers practicing law since August ... 1, 1914, or Jewish lawyers who are veterans of World War I. April 11 ... effectively classifies who was considered Jewish and non-"Aryan": every person with one or more non-"Aryan
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29731. Misuse of Holocaust Imagery Today: When Is It Antisemitism?
or Jewish institutions To criticize the government of Israel by equating its actions to ... the existence of a modern Jewish state As epithets to symbolize ultimate evil, either to ... a specifically Jewish target. For example, a cartoon image equating the Gaza Strip with the ... the Jewish state, they do so not merely with the intention of exploiting the pain of its memory, but
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29732. Breslau-related name lists from: Selected Records Relating to Concentration Camps from the National Archives and Records Administration.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Poland --Breslau. ... Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Poland --Wroclaw. ... Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Poland --Gleiwitz. ... Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Poland --Schweidnitz.
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29733. Jacques Fein
1940. The Karpiks were a fairly typical Jewish Polish immigrant family; Szmul supported his wife ... four children of their own, and hid several other Jewish children in addition to the Karpiks. The ... Jewish children were not physically concealed. They had to be extremely careful to hide their identities ... from neighbors. Jacques was baptized to avert suspicion that he might be Jewish. For the first year
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29734. Alfred "Freddie" Traum
Alfred “Freddie” Traum was born in Vienna, Austria into a traditional Jewish family. World War I ... only for Jewish students. Non-Jewish friends joined the Hitler Youth and quickly separated themselves ... from Freddie, often tormenting the Jewish children with bullying and physical abuse. Jewish youth ... they lived within the Jewish community and gained British citizenship. Freddie served in both the
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29735. Josiane (Josie) Traum
or who would take care of her. A group of nuns took in Josie and a few other Jewish children to live ... with some Christian orphans. When the nuns learned that German officials were looking for the Jewish ... into a traditional Jewish home to Fanny Aizenberg (Fajga Orenbuch) and Jacques Aizenberg ... were deported to Auschwitz that same year. Josie was one of three Jewish children among non-Jewish
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29736. Museum Concerned Over Polish Education Minister's Remarks on Jedwabne Pogrom
Zalewska, questioning that Poles participated in the murder of hundreds of their Jewish neighbors during a ... million non-Jewish Polish civilians were killed by the Germans and millions more were imprisoned and ... subjected to forced labor. By the end of the war approximately three million Jews – 90% of Poland’s Jewish ... Jewish neighbors. Some 6,620 individuals are recognized as “Righteous Among the Nations” by Yad
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29737. An Unexpected Letter
-Jewish playmate. The picture had been taken by a street photographer and was of a group of ... old. It was taken shortly before Hitler came to power, when Jewish and non-Jewish children still ... letter and a picture from a former non-Jewish playmate. The picture had been taken by a street ... Jewish and non-Jewish children still played together. In June 1997 I had visited Bremen at the
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29738. Museum Calls on Hungarian Government to Honor Commitments Made on Holocaust Memorial
support of the Jewish communities of Hungary. Until the recent decisions were announced, officials in the ... involvement of Mazsihisz, the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities and the most representative ... institution of Hungary’s still sizeable Jewish population, in planning the new institution. The ... Government’s decision to assign responsibility for the Jozsefvaros project to a small Jewish community
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29739. Dr. Judith Szapor
on the legacy of the so-called numerus clausus law, the first anti-Jewish legislation in postwar ... infamous anti-Jewish laws of the 1930s but it influenced the modernization of Hungarian society in ways ... in East Central Europe and breaks new ground in its focus on Hungarian Jewish women. Before WWI, they ... politicized women. Hungarian Jewish women born between 1900 and 1925 lived under the shadow of the law, trying
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29740. Lorena Cardona González
of Jewish refugees from Nazism in Colombia during the postwar period. Dr. Cardona González’s research ... focuses on the representations of the Holocaust in Colombia and the history of Jewish and German migration ... Colombia. Fellowship Research The problems encountered by Jewish migrants to Latin America ... discrimination and restriction also occurred in Colombia, where Jewish immigrants were considered “incompatible
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29741. Piotr Forecki
in 2007, and his doctoral dissertation, “Debates over the Polish-Jewish Past and Memory in Public ... anti-Jewish violence before and after World War II, the question of Polish complicity in the Holocaust ... pamięć w debatach publicznych [From Shoah to Fear: Disputes over the Polish-Jewish Past and Memory in ... Poznań. Local and national presses published antisemitic information and radical anti-Jewish legislation
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29742. Resources on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust
Weinmann Annual Lecture, 2016. Susannah Heschel. “Jewish-Christian Dialogue in the Postwar Era ... .” (Audio) Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture, 2013. Jewish Religious Life Holocaust ... Encyclopedia Introduction to Judaism Experiencing History (Primary Sources in Context) Jewish ... Perspectives on the Holocaust Jewish Religious Life and the Holocaust Documenting Life and Destruction
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29743. Dr. Mark Roseman
Professional Background Professor Mark Roseman is the Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at ... Destruction: Jewish Responses to Persecution, 1933-1946. Volume I: 1933-1938 (2009); with Frank Biess and ... for excellence in teaching (history, 2007; Jewish studies, 2005). In 2006 he led the Silberman Seminar ... League for Socialist Life. The group was of mixed Jewish and non-Jewish membership and managed to protect
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29744. Dr. Atina Grossmann
During her Diane and Howard Wohl Fellowship, she conducted research for her project “Transnational Jewish ... Recently she completed a three-year term as Academic Director of the Leo Baeck Summer University in Jewish ... Grossmann researched the Jewish “Asiatic” experience and the relief agencies working out of Iran and ... especially American Jewish aid organizations such as the JOINT Distribution Committee, in trying to support
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29745. Budapest
Jewish cultural life. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Budapest was a safe haven for Jewish refugees ... beginning of deportations of Jews from Slovakia in March 1942, as many as 8,000 Slovak Jewish refugees also ... against the Jews and widespread antisemitism, the Jewish community of Budapest was relatively secure until ... Germans ordered the establishment of a Jewish council in Budapest and severely restricted Jewish life
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29746. Isaac Nehama
traditional, Sephardic Jews who observed all Jewish holidays. Isaac’s father was an accountant at a Jewish ... -owned textile firm. Both of Isaac’s parents belong to local Jewish organizations. Isaac was still in ... Italians, the Jewish population did not initially suffer. Yet, in September of 1943, when German troops ... began to occupy the area, the situation for the Jewish population took a turn for the worse. Aware of
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29747. Rescuing Film: Preserving the Robert Gessner Collection
In 1934, Jewish American writer Robert Gessner traveled to Europe and the Middle East, where he ... filmed at least ten reels documenting Jewish life. In 2014, his son donated the film to the Museum. In ... Collection Learn More The Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive YouTube—Projections of Life: Jewish ... ’s Grandpa”: Marcy Rosen’s Extraordinary Discovery In 1934, Jewish American writer Robert Gessner traveled
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29748. Mr. Michael Casper
including from the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies ... the Center for Jewish History and the Posen Society of Fellows. Mr. Casper’s research languages ... comprehensive study of the Second World War in the Lithuanian city of Biržai by synthesizing Jewish, Lithuanian ... Soviet and German sources. His dissertation, "Strangers and Sojourners: The Politics of Jewish Belonging
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29749. Mr. Simon Goldberg
awards, including a Wexner Graduate Fellowship in Jewish Studies (2016–2020) and the Baltic Jewish ... History Fellowship at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (2018-2019). His first article, “Between ... documents created by members of the Jewish police. Drawing on a wide range of records from the Central State ... Archives of Lithuania, he will examine how wartime Jewish elites depicted ghetto life, and how their
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29750. Madison Hyman
current research builds on her work with Jewish death rituals to examine Jewish cultural responses to ... Jewish Death Practices During the Holocaust." Hyman will locate and aggregate archival material on Jewish ... Jewish life during and in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Residency period: June 1–August 31, 2022