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29801. Fritz Gluckstein: Berlin in the Aftermath of World War II
eventual immigration to the United States. Born to a Jewish father and Christian mother, he was classified ... under Nazi law as Mischlinge, of mixed ancestry, or part Jewish. He spent the war in Berlin ... lived with some other Jewish couples, and we all had to move together. So we persuaded them that we ... were Jewish and we realized, well, we had survived the Third Reich. BILL BENSON: So the Russians
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29802. Collaboration
Axis partners cooperated with the Nazi regime by promulgating and enforcing anti-Jewish legislation ... In some cases, they deported their Jewish citizens and/or residents into German custody en route to ... concentration, and deportation of Jewish residents in their countries. In Hungary, Slovakia, Croatia ... deported nearly 80% of the Slovak Jewish population in cooperation with the Germans during 1942
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29803. Immigration to the United States 1933–41
States identified themselves as Jewish, but this is likely a low number, since some refugees probably ... selected a different category (such as “German”) or did not consider themselves Jewish, even if the Nazis ... Americans: “Should we allow a larger number of Jewish exiles from Germany to come to the United States to ... Americans believed that Germany and the Soviet Union were taking advantage of the masses of Jewish refugees
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29804. University Student Groups in Nazi Germany
law authorized the release of Jewish and “politically ... German Student League directly targeted Jewish students and the remaining Jewish faculty members ... lectures, provoked skirmishes, and physically intimidated Jewish students in actions tolerated by ... In Freiburg, the local chapter of the Student League ransacked and occupied the house of the Jewish
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29805. Janusz Korczak
Korczak was the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit, a Polish Jewish doctor and author. Goldszmit first gained ... highly assimilated Polish Jewish family in Warsaw in the late 1870s ... . In 1911, Korczak took a position leading a new Jewish orphanage in Warsaw. For decades, he and his ... . In fall 1940, German authorities created the Warsaw ghetto. The Jewish
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29806. Children's Aid Society (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants)
original purpose of the OSE was to give medical assistance to Jewish communities that were victimized by ... Germany. The OSE in France provided homes for Jewish refugee children from all over Europe; the children ... OSE recruited Jewish physicians who had been barred from practicing medicine by the 1940 Statute of ... Jewish Appeal (UJA) and the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC
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29807. Testimony on the Escape from the Mir Ghetto by Eliezer Breslin
't enclosed by a barbed wire fence. In this area the houses were mainly non-Jewish, the owners of these houses ... moved into Jewish houses. The area was poor. My parents went to this ghetto. I was working ... approximately 1,400 Jews from Mir were killed, including the Jewish Polish refugees, but I don't know how many ... out rations of bread to all the Jewish members of the ghetto according to portions of 120 gms of bread
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29808. Lublin/Majdanek: Key Dates
of the Jewish population December 1941-February 1942 ... 1941, 150 Jews, seized off the streets of Lublin, become the first Jewish forced laborers in Majdanek ... In February 1942, the first non-Jewish Polish prisoners arrive, along ... District, including the remaining Jewish prisoners at Majdanek. They concentrate 18,000 Jews from various
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29809. Antisemitism
did not prevent violent attacks on Jewish neighborhoods, called pogroms, in which mobs ... . Key Dates 1890s A concocted Jewish conspiracyIn France, a member ... Protocols promote claims that there exists a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. These forged ... documents are presented as the minutes of a supposed meeting of world Jewish leaders in which they finalized
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29810. Hermann Göring: Key Dates
diplomat in Paris by a Jewish youth to unleash a nationwide pogrom ... their followers burn synagogues, loot Jewish homes and businesses, and kill at least 91 Jews ... fine on the Jewish communities of the Reich as "punishment" for the murder of the German diplomat and ... Reinhard Heydrich to establish a national and central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Berlin to
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29811. TRANSLITERATIONS OF NECROLOGIES FROM THE YIZKOR (MEMORIAL) BOOKS OF THE TOWNS SEROCK, WLODOWA, TYSZOWCE, WIELUN, WYSOKIE MAZOWIECKIE,
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Poland --Annopol. ... Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Poland --Biala Rawska. ... Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Poland --Biezun. ... Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Poland --Bychawa.
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29812. The Rioter
night, September 12, 1931. Today is Rosh Hashanah— the Jewish New Year. In Berlin, people are out ... historian at the Museum. Dr. Lindsay MacNeill: They grab people who they think are Jewish. They scream at ... Helldorff is a radical antisemite, so the Nazi’s anti-Jewish sentiments directly appeal to him. Dr ... on Ku'damm, attacking Jewish-owned businesses, attacking Jews, and in particular attacking Jewish
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29813. “Give Me Your Children”: Voices from the Lodz Ghetto
Poland, the Germans quickly imposed anti-Jewish policies. The Jewish children of Lodz suffered ... they ever looked like non Jewish people. After hearing that there is no real difference between non ... He directed a Jewish administrative bureaucracy that allocated shelter, rationed food and fuel, and ... “So I'll Go To School Again” Jewish communities have traditionally held education in the
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29814. Rosa Marie Burger
. Our village had many Jewish citizens who worked as tradesmen or as farmers. Most were prosperous ... Jewish people in our village began to fear the changes that were happening. Jews were restricted from ... Things grew worse and worse. My mother had retained her English citizenship. Jewish people from ... expelled from Germany only days before. The Nazis were so angry, and the Jewish people were terrified
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29815. Auschwitz
Auschwitz, 960,000 died) Non-Jewish ... family camp for Jewish families deported from the ... used Zyklon B to murder victims. The first transports of Jewish men, women, and children sent to ... . These gassing facilities soon proved inadequate for the task of murdering the large numbers of Jewish
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29816. Fanny Aizenberg
their community. Her father was employed by the Yiddish Gemeinde (Jewish community organizations) of ... Brussels that coordinated Jewish activities, ritual slaughter, and Jewish burials. Fanny earned a degree in ... Jews. Jewish physicians were dismissed from their positions, Jewish children were not permitted to
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29817. Manya Moszkowicz Friedman
whose Jewish community dates back to the 16th century. Her father owned a furniture shop and her mother ... appeared urging Polish citizens to boycott Jewish businesses. German troops invaded Poland on September 1 ... 1939 and three days later, Sosnowiec was occupied. Jewish men, including Manya’s father, were rounded ... charge that Jews had to turn in all valuables, Jewish merchants must relinquish their businesses, and
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29818. Helen (Lebowitz) Goldkind
with a bustling Jewish community, nestled in the Carpathian Mountains. One of seven children in a close ... -knit, observant Jewish family, Helen grew up with many relatives, including her grandparents, nearby ... Czechoslovakia where her family lived. Under the Hungarian occupation, Jewish children were not allowed to attend ... school and the synagogues were closed. Helen’s father hired a tutor, a young Jewish teacher who had lost
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29819. Inge Katzenstein
close-knit observant Jewish family, lived with Josef’s parents, and their family was active in the local ... Jewish community; Inge’s paternal grandfather was president of the local synagogue association, and her ... allowed to attend public school and traveled 18 miles by train every day to attend the Jewish school in ... Cologne, Germany. Josef was forced to give up his business, although a non-Jewish family friend managed it
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29820. Halina Litman Yasharoff Peabody
Halina Litman Yasharoff Peabody was born on December 12, 1932 to a liberal Jewish family in ... . Halina was about nine years old when the Nazis carried out their first Aktion against Jewish civilians in ... Jewish community, including Halina’s mother, scrambled to find hiding places, realizing what the future ... authorities moved the remaining Jewish community in and around Zaleszczyki to Tłuste, which eventually became
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29821. The Earliest Christians
testimonies 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 ... features bitter internal Jewish argumentation. Hard fighting and harsh words were no strangers to religious ... one of the two litigants ceased to be ethnically Jewish. That changed everything. The fact was that
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29822. Rachel (Rae) Mutterperl Goldfarb
around 5,000; half of the inhabitants were Jewish. Beryl was a businessman who bought cattle and farm ... businesses and banned religious schools. Rachel and other Jewish children had to attend Soviet public schools ... rule. In July 1941, German authorities required the Mutterperls and other Jewish families to wear ... section of Dokszyce near the synagogue as the Jewish ghetto. It was separated from the rest of the town by
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29823. Maryla Orgel Korn
-Jewish laws. They confiscated Jewish businesses and sold them to non-Jews. The Muntz family ... a kitchen from the Hojniks, a non-Jewish family living on the outskirts of town. On several ... underground Jewish rescue organization. Walking by night and seeking shelter during the day, the escapees ... the Jewish Student Association at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Maryla and David have
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29824. Museum Statement On Holocaust Legislation in Poland
1939-1941.) Deemed racially inferior in Nazi racial ideology, almost two million non-Jewish ... of Poland’s Jewish population—had been murdered in mass shootings and at stationary killing centers ... save their Jewish neighbors. Over 6,600 individuals are recognized as “Righteous Among the Nations” by ... the plunder of Jewish property. In July 1941, Polish residents of Jedwabne, a small town located in
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29825. Curt C. and Else Silberman Faculty Seminar
The foundation supports programs in higher education that promote, protect, and strengthen Jewish ... was a jurist, community leader, and organizer of numerous Jewish organizations and social agencies in ... Jews and Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, and to assuring that the roots of prejudice and the ... relating to international human rights and as a leader of the German Jewish community in America. He served