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30051. Bad Reichenhall Displaced Persons Camp
Salzburg in the American zone of occupation of Germany. The camp served as a large center for Jewish DPs ... February 25 to 27, 1947, and again from March 30 to April 1, 1948, representatives of all the Jewish DP ... Jewish refugees traveling between Germany and Austria secretly made their way through Bad Reichenhall en
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30052. Grossman Family
enough money to buy more fabric for the shop. Family Life in Mád: 1904–1941 Mád had a lovely Jewish ... community, near the Carpathian Mountains. Before the war, there were 800 Jewish people in Mád, out of a ... others were wheat farmers. Most of the Jews ran businesses. Mád was well known in orthodox Jewish ... law to limit slots for Jewish students. The six sisters were grouped into pairs: Anna and Berta
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30053. Selected records from the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg, Russia
Selected records from several archival collections related to the prewar history of the Jewish ... region during World War II. Prewar records contain: Correspondence, minutes of the meetings of the Jewish ... Committee in Petrograd (EKOPO) and others, statistics and reports of the Commissariat for Jewish National ... Affairs (Moscow) for January-March 1918, various records of Jewish organizations to assist the Jewish
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30054. Oral history interview with Regina Prudnikova
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... Regina Prudnikova, born in 1925 in Pilviškiai, Lithuania, describes the prewar Jewish community of ... Soviet Union; the deportation of four Jewish families by Soviet forces; participating in the looting of ... Jewish shops with the arrival of German forces; German soldiers shooting local Jewish citizens
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30055. Nachlass Jean Nordmann (1908-1986)
Second World War, he worked with his wife to help Jewish refugees. He was elected to the Jewish Central ... Committee (1943), then to the Directorate (1944) of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities, over which ... he presided from 1973 to 1980. He sat on the Committee of the Swiss Jewish Christian Community from ... 1948 to 1986, and presided over the Jewish Community of Friburg from 1957 to 1986. In 1964, He was the
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30056. Bertha Aronson collection
Cyrus Adler (1863-1940), Professor of Semitics and Jewish communal leader. He took part in the ... founding of the Jewish Publication Society (1888), the American Jewish Historical Society (1892), the ... Jewish Theolgical Seminary of America (1915- ). He was also a founder of the American Jewish Committee ... leaders of American Zionism in the 1930s, but he took part in the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
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30057. Oral history interview with Zofija Drukteinienė
Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. ... Zofija Drukteinienė, born in 1918 in Lithuania, describes the prewar Jewish community of her ... hometown; Jewish refugees fleeing toward the Soviet Union; restrictions placed on the Jewish community ... under German occupation; the burning of her home; details of the mass shootings of the Jewish population
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30058. Faiza Abdul-Wahab
Mahdia, Tunisia, and began to expel Jewish families from their homes. During the occupation, Khaled Abdul ... Jewish family. Anyway, they knew each other because this was a very small town. So he came in the middle ... the war, Jewish families." But I say, "Okay." You know, no big deal, because we were living all ... some Jewish families." For him it was normal, and that’s all. I'm sure he would have been just very
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30059. Katharina von Schnurbein
Jewish community; it’s a responsibility for society at large. And I think it’s also for that reason it ... recently a project by the European Union of Jewish Students that got together with an Armenian organization ... just at that one country where we have the largest Jewish community in Europe, it’s very worrying. But ... violence against Muslims has also spiked. So, it is a very worrying trend. I’m not Jewish myself; I
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30060. President Obama Appointments to U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council
the International School of Prague, a trustee of the Jewish Women’s Federation of Chicago and was ... General Counsel of the World Jewish Congress, and Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell Law School ... Rosensaft worked as Executive Vice President of the Jewish Renaissance Foundation, Inc. from 1996 to 2000 ... the Founding Chairman of the International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, a former
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30061. Escape from the Ghetto
Judenrat (Jewish Council) to deliver 100 women and old people every week for executions or ... and killings. The Germans were forcing the Judenrat (Jewish Council) to deliver 100 women ... about the plot. He was devastated and shared his worry with a Jewish friend who happened to be a ... reason that in Poland only Jewish men were circumcised. My father was determined to save at least my
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30062. The Kindnesses
the Nazis and their collaborators were looting Jewish homes. Jecheskel suggested that my parents try ... looting Jewish homes. Jecheskel suggested that my parents try to ask some of their Lithuanian friends to ... Jewish home to assign us places in the ghetto. When they came to our apartment the first thing they did ... were many Selektions in which people were taken away to be killed. Jewish workers who worked with
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30063. My Mother's Birthday
the floor above us, and a non-Jewish family on the third floor. There was an attic above us all ... people to see, and he was hauled off to jail with most of the adult Jewish males of our town. I do ... We also discovered that all the Jewish families in our town had had similar experiences and that ... the Jewish shops were looted. Our one precious synagogue was completely destroyed. Bad Kreuznach
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30064. Leaving Nazi Germany
Aachen Jewish community. Rosi and Mani spent the next couple of days in a Jewish family’s home ... became known as Kristallnacht. All over the German Reich, synagogues were burned and Jewish-owned ... businesses were vandalized by mobs of Nazis, members of the SA, and the Hitler Youth. Around 100 Jewish men
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30065. Passover Memories
Although the war was over, many Jewish families were decimated and many Jewish survivors turned away from ... communist Hungary, we did not observe the Shabbat customs. We did not follow the Jewish dietary laws, but we ... still living in Hungary was organized by the Jewish community at the Great Synagogue of Budapest. I was
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30066. If Only I Had Pictures
now Belarus. The town’s Jewish population was about 3,000 before the Holocaust. Only a dozen or so ... Dokszyce in eastern Poland, now Belarus. The town’s Jewish population was about 3,000 before the Holocaust ... Holocaust not only destroyed so many Jewish lives but also tried to erase any image of Jewish existence in
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30067. Alfred Münzer: Difficult Decisions in the Occupied Netherlands
that it would be immoral to bring another Jewish life into the world. My mother at that point turned to ... know, when I was born it was another dilemma. One of the things that’s part of the Jewish tradition is ... being Jewish and circumcision was fairly rare at that time throughout Europe in other groups. But then ... much in keeping with Jewish tradition, we had a circumcision ceremony 8 days later in The Hague. One
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30068. Steven Fenves: Neighbors in Subotica
they encountered a range of responses from their non-Jewish neighbors. LISTEN [audio file="{filedir ... responses from their non-Jewish neighbors. BILL BENSON: Eventually of course, Hungary was on the edge of ... weeks after my father was taken. So, like every other Jewish mother, my mother packed way too much stuff ... -Jewish neighbors. First Person Podcast Series
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30069. New Life
like my father. The unit was made up of Polish citizens, including a number of Jewish Poles, who had ... signed us up with the Jewish Agency in Kraków, which dealt with Jewish refugees. We moved from Jarosław ... Jewish youth from all over the world. The Games still continue today in Israel. In 1953, back in
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30070. 12 Years That Shook the World Podcast
1937, Erwin Haber, a Jewish boy from Austria, had just turned 13. But months later when the Nazis take ... world. Run time: 24 mins. Watching from the Window When the Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses ... Jewish businessman and the Salvadoran colonel who rescued him—manufactured thousands of false ... Jewish brothers prepare to fight back. Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski hide in a dense forest and form a
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30071. Holocaust Videos for Classroom Use
Escape During the 1930s, hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees tried to escape Europe and immigrate to ... Guide Anne Frank: Her World and Her Diary Anne Frank was one of six million Jewish victims murdered ... shot of Nasielsk, Poland, in 1938, provides the only known moving images of the predominantly Jewish ... in understanding the individuality of Jewish lives affected by or lost in the Holocaust and the
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30072. 2022 Annual Seminar on Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust
well as the transnational circulation of ideas that shaped Christian and Jewish theological ... Sr. and Jr. shaped their views of their own communities; the responses of some European Jewish ... Chandler Church History Chair at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC and Dr. Benjamin Sax, Jewish ... Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, Baltimore, MD. Seminar Format
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30073. Warsaw ghetto uprising, 1943
Jewish life and culture in Poland. Warsaw's prewar Jewish population of more than 350,000 constituted ... about 30 percent of the city's total population. The Warsaw Jewish community was the largest in both ... in Warsaw. All Jewish residents were ordered into the designated area, which was sealed off from the
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30074. Warsaw Uprising
joined the AK under false names. The attitude of the Polish Home Army towards Jewish fighters was ... uprising. Several dozen members of the Jewish Combat ... Zukerman, Zivia Lubetkin, and Marek Edelman, the ZOB organized an independent Jewish platoon. Zukerman ... the uprising. After rejection from the AK side, the Jewish squad joined the People's Army (AL
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30075. First Kindertransport Arrives in Great Britain
In desperation, thousands of Jewish parents send their unaccompanied children abroad, hoping ... (Children's Transport) was the informal name of a series of rescue efforts (organized by Jewish communal ... groups in Germany and Austria) which brought thousands of refugee Jewish children to Great Britain ... Jewish orphanage in Berlin which had been destroyed in the Kristallnacht pogrom. Eventually