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29926. How Did I Get from There to Here?
Lithuania. Like all the Jewish people of my town, I was forced into a ghetto where I witnessed ... and compassion by Jewish women who shared a bite of bread with me when I cried of hunger, wrapped ... beaten severely. These Jewish women, like I, were treated by the Nazi guards like worthless insects ... that you can step on and kill. These Jewish women who helped me are my guardian angels. They always
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29927. Freedom in Holysov
Some 250 of the women were Jewish and 250 were political prisoners from Poland and Russia. By Ruth ... Some 250 of the women were Jewish and 250 were political prisoners from Poland and Russia ... . There were three barracks in the camp. The Jewish women ... Several hours later, the Jewish women came back to the camp. The White Russian partisans told them that
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29928. Peter Stein
Peter J. Stein was born Petr Stein on September 22, 1936, in Prague, Czechoslovakia, to a Jewish ... -marriage. However, during the war the German government used intermarried Jewish men as forced laborers ... her marriage to a Jewish man, was forced to work in a Nazi-controlled factory. During the occupation ... strangers. One second-grade classmate targeted and bullied Peter for being Jewish. In the winter of 1943, an
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29929. Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)
Eichmann’s Unit (Eichmannreferat) or the Jewish Unit (Judenreferat). The office ... “Jewish Question” The RSHA was deeply involved in the Nazi regime’s attempts to “solve the ... Jewish Question.” In September 1939, the Nazis had not yet decided on the exact contours of what they ... eventually called the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” The “Final
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29930. Frank Liebermann
rooms for your grades, that was three rooms for the Jewish students in a larger public school ... 1933 German public schools separated Jewish and non-Jewish students. When Frank started school in 1935 ... the Jewish students were allotted three small classrooms and dismissed five minutes early in order to ... school. In 1936 anti-Jewish laws led to rapid changes in
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29931. German Foreign Policy, 1933–1945
policy. German diplomats had the task of persuading Europe’s sovereign states to resolve their “Jewish ... question” themselves or by turning their Jewish population over to Germany. Slovakia and Croatia complied ... newly acquired territories, but they balked at turning over their Jewish citizens. Denmark, Finland, and ... governments there agreed to deport their Jewish populations. The German Foreign Office continued trying to
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29932. Kindertransport, 1938–40
categories of Jewish refugees. British authorities agreed to allow an ... some 200 children from a Jewish orphanage in Berlin which had been destroyed in the ... points in order to join the transports. Jewish organizations within the Greater German Reich ... successor organization the Reich Association of Jews in Germany; and the Jewish Community Organization
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29933. Return to Europe of the St. Louis
with other European Jewish organizations and government representatives, Morris Troper, the European ... Jewish refugees from the Reich, made it clear that the treatment of the St. Louis passengers was ... arranged for about 60 children to be cared for by the Jewish Children's Aid ... by special train to London. There, the German-Jewish Aid Committee arranged housing for those who
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29934. Deportations to and from the Warsaw Ghetto
. The Germans demanded that members of the Jewish council ... (Judenrat) assist in organizing the deportations. The head of the Jewish council in Warsaw ... In January 1943, German SS and police units deported roughly 5,000 Jewish residents of the Warsaw ... ghetto to Treblinka. During this three-day operation, 1,171 Jewish ghetto residents were shot and killed
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29935. Purim
Purim is a Jewish holiday marking the deliverance of the Jews from a royal death decree ... . According to the Jewish lunar calendar, Purim usually falls during February or March. Purim, the ... activities (such as riding in a vehicle, handling money, and physical labor) prohibited on most Jewish ... European Jewish communities. The megillah is often recited in a playful manner using humorous voices and
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29936. The Underground in the Zhetel Ghetto
the history of Jewish communities destroyed in the Holocaust. Most often privately published and ... Christian population, and before a majority of the Jewish population, who were opposed to acts of violence ... demonstrated that this mode of thinking (on the part of the Jewish population) was incorrect. The Germans ... organization of the Jewish police in the Zhetel ghetto, Alter Dvoretsky, enlisted his supporters into its ranks
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29937. Seeking Refuge in Cuba, 1939
Louis, brought Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany (including recently ... Orduña's captain made contact with Rabbi Nathan Witkin, Jr., a representative of the US-based Jewish ... to disembark in Balboa, a town near the Pacific end of the zone. Once in Balboa, seven Jewish ... other Jewish refugees arriving in Havana harbor in 1939. At the end of May 1939, the French Line
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29938. SS: Key Dates
. 1934The SS establishes a department in the SD to “research” the “Jewish question ... Jewish Question” in the Third Reich. September 1, 1939Germany ... “solution” to the “Jewish Question ... .” December 1941-Summer 1942As the elimination of Jewish communities in the Soviet Union
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29939. Theresienstadt: Establishment
Prague “Center for Jewish Emigration” (established in the summer of 1939), RSHA chief ... civilians were relocated. On November 19, Seidl ordered the leaders of the Jewish Religious Community in ... Jewish World War I veterans who met at least one of two criteria: severely disabled due to war wounds and ... Mischlinge (Jewish spouses of German non-Jews and the offspring or descendants of such marriages
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29940. Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger (1926–2007)
archbishop emeritus of Paris. Born Aaron Lustiger in Paris to a Polish Jewish family who had settled in ... conjunction with the World Jewish Congress, Cardinal Lustiger cofounded the Yahad-In Unum association, which ... promotes Jewish-Catholic cooperation, joint social relief programs, and common moral values throughout ... In March 2006, he visited the Museum, where he met with Jewish and Christian interfaith leaders and
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29941. Pope John Paul II (1920–2005)
the village of Wadowice, Poland, where one quarter of the population was Jewish. His own personal ... experience of Nazi oppression and the persecution of Jews, including the deaths of his childhood Jewish ... friends and their families in the concentration camps, strongly influenced his leadership in Jewish ... bore “for the murder of the Jewish people.” He repeatedly condemned antisemitism as “sinful” and
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29942. Isak Danon
of about 50,000 and an active Jewish life. Isak’s father owned a small dry goods store, and Isak ... ’s Jewish population to swell from about 200 to nearly 7,000. Worried over the massive influx in the Jewish ... population, Italian authorities began asking the Jewish community to disperse and eventually began taking
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29943. Haim Solomon
Haim was the youngest of 5 children. His family lived in a small Jewish community in the village of ... Jewish families. On August 23, 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact and ... authorities, suspicious of Jewish loyalties because of the close proximity of the Soviets, ordered all Jews to ... kilometers to the southwest. Iasi was a very Jewish
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29944. Sam Spiegel
Sam was the eldest of five children born to Jewish parents in Kozienice, a town in east central ... a thriving Jewish community that made up about half of the town’s population. 1933–39: On September ... After German forces occupied the town, they began to quickly implement anti-Jewish policies. Jewish
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29945. Charles Stein
Charles was born to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. His father was a printer. In 1937, Charles ... . After his arrival in Luxembourg, he received temporary asylum with the help of a Jewish aid organization ... did not know was that the US State Department had issued orders to stall all Jewish applicants. Soon ... waiter in a Jewish summer camp, and was drafted into the US Army on October 7, 1941, exactly two years
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29946. President Obama Announces New Appointees to United States Holocaust Memorial Council
Center for Jewish Life at Yale University; co-chair of the board of trustees and co-founder of the ... Foundation for Jewish Camp; and a board member and past chair of the Jewish Funders Network. Ms. Spungen ... member of the AIPAC National Council and is the founder of the Farahi Jewish Day School in Reno
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29947. Ms. Anne Lepper
the ‘Committee for Relief of the War-Stricken Jewish Population’ and the Jewish Relief and Rescue ... network of Jewish organizations and individuals in Switzerland during WWII and to place it in the broader ... how cooperation and conflicts shaped the (joint) work of Jewish relief and rescue organizations during
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29948. Jeffrey Kopstein
and the University of Toronto, where he was director of the Centre for Jewish Studies. The author of ... in civil society, paying special attention to cases within European and Russian Jewish history ... Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust (Cornell UP, 2018), which examined a particularly ... work on his new book, Three Pogroms: Anti-Jewish Violence from Antiquity to the Holocaust, a close
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29949. Andrii Bolianovskyi
received his PhD. As the Fellow of the Initiative on Ukrainian-Jewish Shared History and the ... -Jewish Relations in Context of Shoah in Ukraine from 1941-1944: Main Sources and Questions.” Dr ... okupatsiї” [Peculiarities of Ukrainian-Jewish relations in western Ukraine during the Nazi occupation ... Mandel Center, Dr. Bolianovskyi researched Nazi occupation policy and its impact on Ukrainian-Jewish
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29950. Dr. Judith Roumani
Professional Background Dr. Judith Roumani is Director, Jewish Institute of Pitigliano (Italy ... ’s Center for Jewish Civilization (Washington, DC) in 2011; and the B’nai B’rith Museum and Spanish Embassy ... Midstream (2011); and “The Jewish Community in Tunisia” in Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora, vol. 2