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29851. Magda Hellinger
Slovakia, was an agricultural trade center and it had a large Jewish population. Magda's father taught ... Jewish history in local Jewish schools. Magda grew up learning Hebrew songs and listening to stories ... about Jewish history. 1933-39: It's Magda's nature to work with people and to help them work ... of the Jewish Scouts. Strongly believing in the Zionist cause, she helped organize programs of the
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29852. Chaie Sura Kisielnicki
Chaie Sura was the youngest of three children born to Jewish parents living 35 miles east of ... Warsaw in the small, predominantly Jewish town of Kaluszyn. Her father ... brothers fled eastward towards the USSR with other Jewish men who were afraid that the Germans would send ... father to be on the Jewish council. Her father, in turn, chose her brother
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29853. Welwel Wainkranc
The third of five brothers, Welwel was born to Jewish parents who lived 35 miles east of Warsaw ... in the small predominantly Jewish town of Kaluszyn. His father was a cattle merchant who purchased ... group of Jewish friends who lived in his neighborhood and who attended the same public school ... crowded that they can't walk without bumping into one another. Occasionally a group of non-Jewish kids
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29854. The Holocaust in Macedonia: Deportation of Monastir Jewry
). Anti-Jewish Measures On October 4, 1941, the Bulgarians enforced an extraordinary measure that ... prohibited the Jews of Macedonia from engaging in any type of industry or commerce. All existing Jewish ... to move to a poorer part of town located near the traditional Jewish quarter on the west side, and ... government demanded that all Jewish households hand over 20 percent of the value of all assets, including
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29855. Labor and Internment Camps in North Africa
Spanish Republicans, political prisoners, and former Jewish volunteers to the French Foreign Legion ... (Légion étrangère, LE). It appears that very few (if any) Moroccan Jewish nationals were sent to the Vichy ... camps in Morocco. In Algeria the numbers of local Jews deported was higher, and included Algerian Jewish ... month occupation of Tunisia (November 1942-May 1943). It is estimated that roughly 5,000 Tunisian Jewish
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29856. Joseph Goebbels
anti-Jewish measures. At the same time, viewpoints in any way threatening to Nazi beliefs or to the ... violent attack on the Jewish community in Germany on November 9, 1938. Goebbels was a chief instigator of ... perfect pretext for a nationwide violent attack on the Jewish community in Germany. Hitler agreed ... hundreds of synagogues throughout Germany and attacked about 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses. Jewish
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29857. Leif Donde
Leif was born to a Jewish family in the Danish capital of Copenhagen. Both of his parents were ... active in the Jewish community there, and his father owned a small garment factory. The majority of ... Denmark's 6,000 Jews lived in Copenhagen before the war. Despite its size, the city's Jewish population ... supported many Jewish organizations, often aiding Jewish refugees from all over Europe. 1933-39: Leif
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29858. Combating Holocaust Denial: Origins of Holocaust Denial
“action” (Aktion) referred to a violent operation against Jewish (or other) civilians by German ... deportation of Jewish civilians to killing centers in German-occupied Poland ... Widespread Jewish resistance was only possible once Jews understood that Nazi ... Both Jewish and Polish underground organizations made great efforts to let the outside world know what
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29859. 1943: Key Dates
1,400 Jews in the ghetto. Members of the Jewish Fighting Organization (Zydowska Organizacja ... . April 19-May 16In the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Jewish ... remaining Jewish inhabitants who are able to work to concentration camps. June 23 ... . August 2Jewish prisoners revolt at the Treblinka killing center. Although around 200
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29860. Eleanor Roosevelt
-Jewish policies of the Nazi regime. They recognized that the persecuted people needed safe havens to ... German Jewish refugees would prove very difficult for a number of reasons. The European ... American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), the German-Jewish Children’s Aid, and other organizations ... Europe, particularly on children in Vichy France. The AFSC chose children, both Jewish and non-Jewish
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29861. European anti-Semitism after 1800
however, anti-Jewish sentiment of Catholic and Protestant Europe, itself increasingly secularized, had ... other roots no less mythical. The proper term for it is anti-Semitism. Its target was Jewish ethnicity ... of anti-Jewish sentiment as all Christian Europe. The short-lived Weimar Republic could not deliver ... capitalist families, gentile and Jewish, managed to escape these problems, but the eyes of the angry populace
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29862. “Final Solution”—1940 to 1945
Solution of the Jewish Question.” When World War II ended in 1945, the Nazis and their collaborators had ... killed some six million Jews in Europe, representing two-thirds of the Jewish population in prewar Europe ... —who were subject to dehumanizing treatment, forced labor, and death. Jewish experience in the ghettos ... efforts to preserve the evidence of Jewish life under Nazi rule, armed resistance in the Warsaw ghetto
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29863. Jews Rescuing Jews: The Ben Zion and Clara Colb Collection
other Jews out of Poland to relative safety. Working with leaders of the Jewish community in Poland and ... contentID="8254" style="centeredGallery"] Learn More Holocaust Encyclopedia—Jewish Resistance Holocaust ... Encyclopedia—Jewish Aid and Rescue Holocaust Encyclopedia—The Holocaust in Slovakia Timeline of Events—The ... leaders of the Jewish community in Poland and Slovakia, smuggled more than 1,000 of his fellow Jews out of
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29864. The Children’s Haggadah
about Jewish life under the Nazis during the 1930s and one family’s desire to transmit its traditions ... More Holocaust Encyclopedia—German-Jewish Refugees, 1933–1939 Holocaust Encyclopedia—Jewish ... this book reveals about Jewish life under the Nazis during the 1930s and one family’s desire to
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29865. Walter Francis
The American University in Washington, D.C. in 2018, and completed his MA in Jewish Studies with the ... Institute of Israel and Jewish Studies at Columbia University. He is currently pursuing his PhD in Middle ... Walter's project focuses on recovering Tunisian Jewish historical memory of the World War II period ... attempts to negotiate an identity encompassing their Jewish faith, their Arabic cultural context, and their
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29866. Eleanor & Gilbert: A Couple’s Mission
Vienna to rescue 50 Jewish children in spring 1939—just months before the start of World War II. Upon ... Behind Every Name Marianne & Jane: A Pen Pal’s Story A Jewish teenager desperate to flee Nazi persecution ... asked her pen pal for help. Behind Every Name Franz: A Professor’s Plea A Jewish professor seeking to ... German Jewish athlete was poised to win a gold medal at the 1936 Olympics. Behind Every Name Animated
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29867. Dr. Judith Gerson
’: Hidden Legacies of the Holocaust among German Jewish Immigrants.” Professor Gerson is the author of ... Jewish Immigrants” (Political Psychology, 2001). She is co-editor with Diane Wolf of Deghettoizing the ... German-Jewish immigrants who fled Nazi Germany before November 1941 and arrived in the United States by ... and resettlement in the United States shaped German-Jewish immigrants’ lives. Professor Gerson was in
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29868. Liviu Carare
received a master’s degree in Jewish history and Hebrew studies from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University ... the Center, Mr. Carare researched Jewish life in the town of Czernowitz, which has been under both ... Romanian and Soviet rule. He collected data from the orders and regulations regarding the Jewish population ... provide a complete picture of Jewish life within the enclosed perimeter of the Czernowitz ghetto. His
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29869. Rachel Deblinger
discourse of the Holocaust in the early postwar period and how the efforts of the Jewish communal ... Jewish communal life. For her Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship, Ms. Deblinger conducted research ... Holocaust Narratives,” YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York (2012) and “David P. Boder: Holocaust ... Skirball Fellowship in Modern Jewish Culture. She has language skills in Yiddish, German, and Czech
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29870. Lampertheim Displaced Persons Camp
Lampertheim was a small Jewish ... of which were donated by American Jewish organizations and the Jewish Agency in Palestine ... against a theater performance on the Jewish Sabbath
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29871. Stuttgart West Displaced Persons Camp
Stuttgart West was an urban all-Jewish displaced persons (DP) camp in the city ... offenders. The violence resulted in the death of one Jewish DP and three others were injured. The clash had ... entering Jewish DP camps except under rare circumstances ... During October 1946, the Jewish population in the camp reached over 1,400. On June 13, 1949, the camp
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29872. Santa Maria di Leuca Displaced Persons Camp
The only mixed (Jewish and non-Jewish ... Although the Joint (The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee ... residents included approximately 400 non-Jews, while the Jewish refugees themselves were split: half were
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29873. Deggendorf Displaced Persons Camp
,000 Jewish DPs. Deggendorf had two newspapers, the Deggendorf Center Review and Cum ... a synagogue, a mikve (Jewish ritual bath), and a kosher kitchen. The camp administration ... money bore the stamp, "Jewish Committee-D.P. Camp 7 Deggendorf." ORT operated a vocational training ... school in Deggendorf that offered a variety of occupations. The Jewish community in Deggendorf
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29874. [Denied applications]
Krakau" which translates to: "Questionnaire for the measurement of the Jewish population of Krakow." The ... Jewish community in Krakow, Diagnostic Investigation Bureau ... Verband der Jüdischen Handwerker in Krakau Association of Jewish Craftsmen in Krakow
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29875. SURVIVING JEWS IN PRZEMYSL.
World Jewish Congress. Division for Displaced Persons ... Central Jewish Committee in Poland ... New York : World Jewish Congress ... LISTS - SURVIVORS, JEWISH -- POLAND.