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29976. Manfred’s Last Letter
was mailed or handed over to a non-Jewish person for mailing. by Harry Markowicz During the ... over to a non-Jewish person for mailing. I was still too young to have learned how to read and write ... with thousands of other Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria. By then, the latter had been annexed ... entire Jewish families, we went into hiding. Manfred and Mani wrote to each other. Both were moved around
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29977. Henry Greenbaum: Attempting Escape from a Slave Labor Camp
Starahowice, Poland, with his sister Faige and a Jewish policeman in July 1944. LISTEN [audio file="{filedir ... with his sister, Faige, and a Jewish policeman. BILL BENSON: While you were there, you were part of ... herself. She came with a Jewish policeman who she befriended, and he came, held her hand, and she grabbed ... started screaming for my sister, “Faye!” Faige in Yid– Jewish. And I couldn’t find her. She was the
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29978. Les Milles Camp
relatively relaxed. Gourchon allowed the religious Jewish prisoners to pray in the camp’s central courtyard ... . Leon Feuchtwanger, a German Jewish writer, was also briefly interned in Les Milles. After his ... of the Jewish race] in French camps. Les Milles accordingly transformed into a transit camp ... representative from the Alliance israélite universelle (a Jewish international aid organization based in
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29979. Deportations to Killing Centers
deportation and murder of 11 million Jews. Their estimate included Jewish residents of nations outside German ... 's Axis partners over the transfer of their Jewish citizens to German custody ... "resettlement" of the Jewish population in labor camps in the "East." In reality, the "resettlement in the East ... German authorities deported most of the Jewish residents of the Lodz ghetto
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29980. Elias (Elya) Grosmann
Jewish, and he grew up in a religious home in which both Yiddish and Hungarian were spoken. His father ... received a formal Jewish education and attended Medzilaborce's rabbinical academy. 1933-39: The ... townspeople were mostly Jewish and worried about Nazi Germany. The German annexation ... of Austria in March 1938 alarmed them. Some left for Palestine, but their town's Jewish
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29981. Varian Fry
country under Hitler’s rule. Upon witnessing an anti-Jewish riot in Berlin on July 15, 1935, Fry wrote ... saw one [Jewish] man brutally kicked and spat upon as he lay on the sidewalk, a woman bleeding, a man ... university presidents, and artists—as well as a number of Jewish refugees—at the Hotel Commodore in New York ... gathered a staff, a mix of Jewish and non-Jewish refugees including artist Bill Spira, future Bard College
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29982. Rivka Rzondzinski
Jewish town of Kaluszyn. The Rzondzinski family was very religious. When Rivka's husband, Fiszel, died in ... ago, Rivka's daughter Raizel's husband and her two sons fled eastward to the USSR with other Jewish ... 's Jewish council. Their son, Abram, is in the Jewish police and their other son, Majlech, is on the ... Jewish sanitation committee. Rivka would like to help Raizel in the communal kitchen for poor Jewish
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29983. Susanne Ledermann
Susanne was the younger of two daughters born to Jewish parents in the German capital of Berlin ... January 1933, it became illegal for Jewish lawyers to have non-Jewish clients. When Susanne was 4, her ... neighborhood. Some of her friends were also Jewish refugees from Germany. 1940-44: On May 14, 1940 ... schools and Susanne enrolled in a Jewish school. By June 1942 the Germans were deporting Jews, ostensibly
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29984. Franz Anton Ledermann
Franz was raised in a town in eastern Germany. The son of Jewish parents, he earned a law degree ... age of 35 he married Ilse Luise Citroen, a woman of Dutch-Jewish ancestry. The couple settled in ... again in a new country. However, after the Nazis forbade Jewish lawyers to have non-Jewish clients, he ... job with a Dutch lawyer whose clientele was mainly Jewish refugees in the Netherlands. In May 1940 the
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29985. Idzia Pienknawiesz
Idzia was the older of two girls born to Jewish parents who lived 35 miles east of Warsaw in the ... small predominantly Jewish town of Kaluszyn. Idzia's father owned a liquor store and her mother was a ... housewife. Idzia was close friends with a group of Jewish teenagers who went to the same public school and ... Jewish council which includes Idzia's father and her friend Majlich's father. They, in turn, chose
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29986. Lachwa
in January 1942, Jewish youth organized underground groups, with the first ... were also members of the Jewish Police who worked with both the Judenrat and the underground movement ... impending liquidation prompted different responses within the Jewish population. In general there was a ... Wehrmacht and was told that “the Jewish population has an important task ahead of them” and that the pits
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29987. Christopher Leighton
Christian and Jewish Studies in Baltimore. A Presbyterian minister, Leighton is deeply committed to ... Leighton has served as the Executive Director of the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies in ... here's Reverend Christopher Leighton. CHRISTOPHER LEIGHTON: I came to Jewish-Christian relations in ... website, www.ushmm.org. Christopher Leighton Executive Director, Institute for Christian and Jewish
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29988. Ruth Elisabeth Greifer
Ruth was born into an orthodox Jewish family in Geilenkirchen, a rural German town near the Dutch ... Jewish neighbors. Excluded from public institutions, Ruth attended a private Catholic school. In 1938 ... Jewish neighbors away, Ruth and her parents went into hiding with the help of the Dutch resistance ... in Geilenkirchen, including our Rabbi and his family. I have known so many Jewish friends and
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29989. Frank Liebermann
Frank Liebermann was about six years old when he began attending public school in Germany. Jewish ... part of the day.” At the end of the day, teachers released the Jewish children early so that they had a ... about six years old when he began attending public school. Jewish students were segregated from the ... the Jewish children early so they had a head start leaving school before the other children were let
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29990. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin
ten Jewish families living in the area. Her parents, Katie and Adolf Rosenfeld, had four other ... attended a Jewish school In March 1939, Esther’s three older sisters went to England on the ... 1947. Harry worked in a shoe factory that was owned by a Jewish family. He had responded to a flyer on ... England but came to visit whenever possible. Esther’s parents and brother were deported during the Jewish
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29991. Museum Hosts International Conference: The Holocaust in Hungary: 70 Years Later
cooperation. Emerging and leading scholars will address a range of topics, including postwar Hungarian Jewish ... river during the final months of the war—have been vandalized. Assaults on Jewish institutions and ... members of the Jewish community have become more common, which is an outgrowth, in my opinion, of the ... the Center for Jewish Studies of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The Rosenthal
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29992. Grosse Hamburgerstrasse
we were registered by employees of the Jewish Community Center and assigned to a room already ... occupied by five or six men who also had non-Jewish spouses. The room was empty aside from mattresses ... observe the proceedings. Right away, Brunner tried to catch me off guard. “Your mother is Jewish ... about my past and my daily activities—at the time I was working at a Jewish welfare office. After about
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29993. A Headstone in the Air
beginning of the 20th century, one of Savannah’s Jewish congregations purchased land in the cemetery ... and established a Jewish burial section. They also erected a burial preparation chapel, which was ... names and dates of the deceased. According to Jewish law, the Jewish section is less ornate. However
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29994. Amos Goldberg
Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). Each of his ... chaired the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at The Hebrew University (2016 – 2018) and ... together with Bashir Bashir, two books on Jewish and Palestinian traumatic memories (Van Leer, 2015 [Hebrew ... Jewish Warsaw (ghetto) society. His research will specifically address the following subjects to further
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29995. Dr. Karen Remmler
the remembrance of the Holocaust in film, contemporary German Jewish culture, and cultural forms of ... global transitional justice. Remmler’s publications include volumes and essays on contemporary Jewish ... and Inge Bachmann’s “Ways of Dying” and coeditor with Sander Gilman, of Reemerging Jewish Culture in ... Leslie Morris, the anthology, Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany and in 2006, with Chris Benfey
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29996. Maria Ferenc
Holocaust. She works as Assistant Professor at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, where she ... Studies, Maria will be working on the biography of Mordechai Anielewicz, the commander of the Jewish ... Jewish responses to the World War II and changing strategies of resistance against the Nazis? Much of ... governed by a narrative of Jewish resistance and heroic, yet hopeless, defiance. It is conceived of almost
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29997. Dr. Elizabeth Anthony
enrolled at North American universities. Dr. Anthony’s research focuses on the postwar Jewish ... ) “Rebuilding and Renewing Viennese Jewish Identity after the Holocaust” in Agency and the Holocaust: Essays in ... Humanity,” 2018 panel at the Museum of Jewish Heritage Contact Information Email eanthony@ushmm ... Expertise The postwar Jewish community of Vienna The records of the International Tracing Service digital
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29998. Louise Lawrence-Israëls
yellow star badges on their clothing. The Nazis also confiscated Jewish-owned property, including Louise ... to Westerbork transit camp. The Israëls family, along with other members of the Jewish community in ... February 2, 1943, the Germans executed ten men, including three Jewish leaders from Haarlem, one of which ... was a neighbor of the Israëls family and the president of the Jewish congregation of Haarlem. A few
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29999. Dr. Jonathan Judaken
Judaken is the author of the book Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the ... (Fall 2007, forthcoming); “Alain Finkielkraut and the Nouveaux Philosophes: French-Jewish Intellectuals ... Reflections on ‘la question juive,’” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies (MJS), vol. 1, no. 1 (April 2002): 3-21 ... including a post-doctoral fellowship in Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an
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30000. David Fraser
research for his project “The Fragility of Law: Anti-Jewish Decrees, Constitutional Patriotism and ... Council, for his project, “Objection or Collaboration?: Belgian Lawyers and the Jewish Question, 1940-45 ... . Fellowship Research During his tenure at the Museum, Professor Fraser studied the history of anti-Jewish ... anti-Jewish laws. Professor Fraser was in residence at the Mandel Center from June 22 to August