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29826. Jews Against the Nazis
think that people can do such horrific things? In the same way, how could Jewish men know that when ... the crosses in the military cemetery. There was a Jewish brigade from Palestine in the British army ... establishment and protection of Israel. There were Jewish partisans in Eastern Europe and also in such countries ... of Belarus. It was based on the Jewish Bielski brothers who established a partisan brigade. They
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29827. Lisa Kraft
father, Nandor Rosenthal, worked at a Hungarian-Jewish owned asbestos company. The company closed due to ... Jewish community in Miskolc. In 1938, the Italian fascist regime passed antisemitic legislation, placing ... restrictions on the Jewish community and excluding Jews from participating in many aspects of daily life. The ... Zealand on August 30th. They received some assistance from the local Jewish community and lived in a small
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29828. Museum Makes Holocaust-Related Ukrainian Archives Available Online
of Jewish political, cultural, educational and philanthropic organizations; information about ... civil war, closure of synagogues and dissolution of Jewish communities by the Soviet authorities ... Ukraine and Ukrainian auxiliary police; Jewish ghettos; postwar developments, such as Soviet ... evacuated populations, restitution of Jewish property and war crimes trials and Soviet antisemitism
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29829. Havi Dreifuss
Professional Background Havi Dreifuss is a history professor in the Department of Jewish History ... light of the Holocaust, and Jewish existence in the face of extermination. She is the author of ... numerous publications, including Relations Between Jews and Poles: The Jewish Perspective (2012) and Warsaw ... will examine new aspects of the Jewish fighting organizations (ZZW, ZOB) to lead to new assessments of
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29830. Do You Remember, When
Jewish friend and gay companion, Gad Beck. Mr. Beck, a Holocaust survivor who again lives in Berlin ... Jewish, risked his life attempting to save Manfred from deportation—read these words from the play that ... and Manfred played the starring roles in their Jewish youth group’s reading of the play. Explore the ... made as a private gift to Gad, now allows us glimpses into the daily life of Jewish youth in Berlin
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29831. Dr. Arnold Band
Nightmare: The Fiction of S.J.Agnon (1968); The Tales of Nahman of Bratzlav (1976); Studies in Jewish ... variety of topics in modern Jewish literature and cultural life that are available upon request. Dr. Band ... Oxford Center in Jewish Studies, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Kreitman Distinguished ... abroad most notably as President of the Association for Jewish Studies, and the Chair of the Department
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29832. Lithuania
. The Jews of Lithuania had their own distinct and highly developed Jewish culture, including a special ... dialect of the Yiddish language. Lithuanian Jewry played a profound role in many Jewish ideologies ... including the Jewish workers' movement, Zionism, and rational religious thought. Before World War II, the ... Lithuanian Jewish population was some 160,000, about 7 percent of the total population. Lithuania was
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29833. Antisemitism in History: Racial Antisemitism, 1875–1945
relations with non-Jews. They argued that Jewish "racial intermixing," by "contaminating" and weakening the ... host nations, served as part of a conscious Jewish plan for world domination. Though secular ... racists drew upon religious imagery and stereotypes to define hereditary Jewish "behavior," they insisted ... that alleged Jewish "traits" were handed down from generation to generation. Since "Jews" did not form
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29834. Work permit issued to Max Diamant
Dr. J. Rebhan, chair of the Jewish council in Przemysl, Poland ... signed this document certifying that Max Diamant had stable employment in the Jewish clinic. The ... established Jewish councils to ensure that Nazi orders and regulations were implemented. Jewish council ... members also sought to provide basic community services for ghettoized Jewish populations.
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29835. Cyprus Detention Camps
. The mossad l’aliyah bet branch of the Hagana (an underground Jewish military ... the struggle to create a Jewish state. The mossad l’aliyah bet relied upon the Zionist youth ... Cyprus camps. The births took place in the Jewish wing of the British military hospital in Nicosia. Four ... The conditions in the Cyprus detentions camps and the sight of Jewish Holocaust survivors being held
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29836. Hidden Children: Daily Life
joy, happiness, or childish innocence.” Adapting to their abnormal circumstances, Jewish boys and ... mental development. Even in the ghettos and concentration camps, Jewish children sought solace in games ... been an important element of Jewish culture. As Germany took control of Europe, however, opportunities ... Jewish hidden children frequently shared in their foster families' household chores and work
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29837. Trawniki: Key Dates
instructors use the local Jewish population for “training purposes.” Summer 1942 ... that the Schultz fur production plant with 4,000 Jewish workers and the brush-making plant with 1 ... the Jewish residents to forced-labor camps and to kill those who resist. The operation sparks the ... transports of Jewish workers arrive in Trawniki from the Minsk ghetto after its
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29838. Krakow Ghetto: Key Dates
Gestapo (German secret state police) arrests 50 Jewish intellectuals residing in the Krakow ghetto and ... killing center. December 23, 1942Members of the Jewish Fighting Organization ... 2,000 Jews in the ghetto and transfer another 2,000 Jews, the members and families of the Jewish ... Plaszow forced-labor camp for Jews murder virtually all of the Jewish prisoners in a series of mass
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29839. Theresienstadt: Transit Camp for Czech Jews
As of March 15, 1939, the Jewish religious community in Prague determined that approximately 125 ... territory of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. In Contrast, on October 1, 1941, the Jewish religious ... Jewish religious community in Prague welcomed the existence of the Theresienstadt camp-ghetto, believing ... chairperson of the Jewish Council of Elders in the camp-ghetto. When he arrived in Theresienstadt on December
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29840. Voyage of the St. Louis
most Jewish refugees, left Hamburg, Germany, en route to Cuba. Most of them planned eventually to ... 937 Jewish refugees flee Nazi Germany and sail for Havana, CubaA German passenger ship ... the St. Louis, leaves the port of Hamburg with approximately 900 passengers, mainly Jewish ... Jewish refugees already in Cuba take boats into the harbor to get a glimpse of family members on the ship
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29841. Righteous Among the Nations
paying tribute to those Jewish resistance fighters, and honoring those "high-minded Gentiles who risked ... their lives to save Jews." The title Righteous Among the Nations is taken from Jewish tradition (the ... literature of the Sages) that describes non-Jews who helped the Jewish people in times of need. The ... convert them to Christianity, taking a Jewish child with the intention of
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29842. Morris Troper and the Passengers of the St. Louis
documents the efforts of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee European chief to negotiate safe ... style="centeredGallery"] Learn More Holocaust Encyclopedia—American Jewish Joint Distribution ... Committee and Refugee Aid Holocaust Encyclopedia—Jewish Aid and Rescue Holocaust Encyclopedia—Refugees ... of the Museum’s Morris Troper Collection, which documents the efforts of the American Jewish Joint
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29843. Ebensee Displaced Persons Camp
entirely of Polish citizens, and one Jew, which resulted in tension between the Polish and the Jewish ... inmates The Jewish inhabitants of the camp often complained of the administration’s discrimination against ... them. Judah Nadich (General Eisenhower’s first advisor on Jewish affairs in Europe) undertook an ... investigation of the Jewish DP situation in Ebensee, and recommended a change: thus, the Jews were relocated to
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29844. Looking Danger in the Eye
underway, each time the Nazis invade another country, like the Netherlands, they bring their anti-Jewish ... ideology, their anti-Jewish laws, and their fury. But the Nazis are not only going after Jews. They ... registering with this chamber. Erin Harper: To Frieda, this is alarming, because she had two Jewish ... ’s orchestra are Jewish, she suspects it’s only a matter of time until the Nazis shut them down. So, shortly
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29845. PAMIATS' : BOBRUISK.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead --Belarus --Babruisk. ... World War, 1939-1945 --Participation, Jewish --Soviet Union. ... Jewish soldiers --Soviet Union. ... JEWISH SOLDIERS IN THE ALLIED FORCES - SOVIET ARMED FORCES.
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29846. Elie Wiesel
in the Carpathian Mountains, a young Jewish woman read in a Hungarian newspaper a brief account about ... the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Astonished, dismayed, she wondered aloud, ‘Why,’ she said, ‘are our Jewish ... were there to be killed. In Poland, SS officers used Jewish infants for target practice. The only ... emotion they ever showed was anger when they missed. In Kiev, an SS officer beheaded two Jewish children
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29847. The Tray
brother and I were part of a group of Jewish children who inhabited the chateau. Most of us had come from ... not say anything about the war, nor about how the Nazis treated them and the other Jewish people of ... 1941 we attended the French public school. However, the Jewish children from the chateau were not ... our Jewish holiday. Our chateau was run by Jewish orthodox counselors and teachers who taught us the
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29848. Haim Solomon: Hiding during the Pogrom in Iasi
against the Jewish population in Iasi, Romania, within days of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in ... authorities staged a pogrom against the Jewish population in Iasi. Haim and his family hid in various ... the Germans, or the Romanians insisted that Jewish Communists signaled the Soviets where to bomb, drop ... removal, carts. Those were horse drawn carts to remove the dead and take them to the Jewish cemetery. The
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29849. Books
In this book, Ioanid explores in great detail the physical destruction of Romania’s Jewish and Roma ... (1948–1994) By Roni Mikel-Arieli The lens of apartheid-era Jewish commemorations of the Holocaust in ... South African Jewish community and in very different modality investigates prominent figures in the anti ... : The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation By Katarzyna Person Translated by Zygmunt Nowak
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29850. Irene Freund
The younger of two children, Irene was born to Jewish parents in the industrial city of Mannheim ... school. Three-year-old Irene was at home with her mother. 1933-39: Celebrating Jewish holidays ... especially liked the monkeys. When the Nazis forced Jewish children out of public school, she began attending ... a Jewish school. Irene was "a daddy's girl," and her father would take her home from school on his