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30901. Glossary
. Aryan: Term used in Nazi Germany to refer to non-Jewish and non-Roma (Gypsy) Caucasians ... Jewish population into large cities. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 ... Heydrich was tasked with developing a "Final Solution" of the Jewish question in Europe ... referred to as the "Night of Broken Glass." It is the name given to the violent anti-Jewish pogrom of
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30902. 1942: Key Dates
presents plans to coordinate a European-wide “Final Solution of the Jewish ... initially established by the Dutch government to intern Jewish refugees who had entered the Netherlands ... representative of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Switzerland, sends a cable ... Jews of Europe from the US Department of State, Rabbi Stephen Wise, President of the World Jewish
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30903. Mendel Grynberg
Mendel was raised in a large, Yiddish-speaking, religious Jewish family in Sokolow Podlaski, a ... manufacturing town in central Poland with a large Jewish population of about 5,000. Upon completing school ... troops marched into Sokolow Podlaski on September 20 and began to loot homes in the Jewish community ... Bialystok in the Soviet-occupied part of Poland. 1940-44: Like other Jewish refugees from Poland
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30904. Johanna (Hanne) Hirsch
Hanne was born to a Jewish family in the German city of Karlsruhe. Her father, Max, was a ... public school. 1933-39: In April 1933 Hanne's family's studio, like the other Jewish businesses in ... Karlsruhe, was plastered with signs during the anti-Jewish boycott: "Don't buy ... Jewish businesses had to be closed. 1940-44: In 1940 Hanne and her family were deported to
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30905. Frederik Polak
Frederik was raised in a religious Jewish home. His father was a scribe of Jewish holy texts ... and started his own family. 1933-39: Creating an atmosphere of Jewish observance in the home ... Sabbath and the Jewish holidays with their four children. In 1937, after Frederik's son
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30906. Grietje Polak
Grietje was born to a large religious Jewish family in Amsterdam. When she was in her mid-20's ... quarters on the second floor of a house. 1933-39: Creating an atmosphere of Jewish observance in the ... home was important to Grietje and her husband. They loved to celebrate the Sabbath and the Jewish ... holidays with their four children. Grietje taught shorthand and needlepoint at a Jewish elementary school
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30907. Erna Schumer Unger
Erna was the second of four daughters. Her religious Jewish parents moved the family to Essen ... Amsterdam. Like some uprooted Jewish refugees in the city, their children were placed in the care of Jewish ... family member to survive was Dora, who in 1940 had been smuggled to England with other Jewish refugee
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30908. Isadore Frenkiel
religious Jewish family, lived in a one-room apartment in a town near Warsaw called Gabin. Like most Jewish ... teachers, were taken away. The Germans rounded up the Jewish men and held them in the marketplace while ... crying, "Will they burn me, too?" Isadore urged his cousin to tell the Jewish elders. He met with them
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30909. Mina Beker
Mina, born Mina Friedman, was the youngest of four daughters born to a Jewish family in the ... died in a childhood accident. 1933-39: Mina's son Abe attended a Jewish religious school in ... Jonava. But since Mina had received an extensive Jewish education, she decided to teach her daughters at ... home. Mina also taught Jewish studies to local women and children, using a Yiddish translation of the
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30910. Chaim Engel
In Lodz he attended a Jewish school that also provided a secular education. After finishing middle ... Lodz was predominantly Jewish, so most of his friends were Jews. As a young adult he began his ... German captor learned Chaim was Jewish, but he didn't shoot him. Chaim was taken to Germany for ... forced labor. 1940-44: In March 1940 all Jewish POWs were returned to Poland. Chaim was
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30911. Emma Freund
The second oldest of six children, Emma was raised by observant Jewish parents in a small town ... Dachau. When the Nazis burned down the local synagogue and Jewish school in ... and to assemble near the train station. They disobeyed the order and tried to hide with a Jewish ... transferred to yet another camp, Rivesaltes. Emma fell ill, but was relieved when a Jewish children's aid
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30912. Her Sister's Needlepoint
Her Sister's Needlepoint Locals Loot Jewish Homes Her Sister's Needlepoint Locals in Zdzieciol ... non-Jewish people profited from the deportation and murder of Jewish populations in Poland. Often ... their Jewish neighbors.
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30913. Kornelia Mahrer Deutsch
Kornelia was known as Nelly. She was the older of two daughters raised by Jewish parents in the ... the Deutsches' three children attended Jewish schools. Miksa and his brother were the sole ... fire some of their Jewish employees. 1940-44: In 1940 Miksa was conscripted into the Hungarian ... to special houses marked with a Jewish star. In October 1944, Hungarian fascists began rounding up
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30914. Carl Heumann
Carl was one of nine children born to Jewish parents living in a village near the Belgian border ... Jewish relief organization. Requests from this area's Jews to leave Germany have multiplied since a night ... last November [Kristallnacht] when the Nazis smashed windows of Jewish ... immigration quotas so that only a fraction of the Jewish refugees can get visas. 1940-44: Carl and his
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30915. Judith Beker
Judith was one of three children born to a Yiddish-speaking Jewish family living on a farm near ... the Lithuanian town of Jonava. Judith's mother had an extensive Jewish education and taught her ... daughters at home. Her son, Abe, attended a Jewish religious school in Jonava. Judith's father worked in the ... at that time had a large Jewish community--approximately one third of the capital's total population
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30916. Leah Hammerstein Silverstein describes the Tarnow ghetto after a roundup
also posed as a non-Jewish Pole in Czestochowa and Warsaw, and was a courier for the Jewish National ... Committee and the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB). She fought with a Jewish unit in the Armia Ludowa
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30917. Eva Gredinger
Eva was one of three children born to Jewish parents in Vertujeni, a Bessarabian town that was ... 90 percent Jewish. Eva attended a public school. Her family was religious, attending synagogue every ... day. Eva's father made his living as a kosher butcher, preparing chicken according to Jewish dietary ... Jewish families in Vysoka and Eva believed that people were less tolerant of Jews. While there were not
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30918. Charles E. Coughlin
Kristallnacht was justified as retaliation for Jewish persecution of Christians. He explained to his listeners ... derided “international bankers,” a phrase that most of his listeners understood to mean Jewish bankers ... Justice. In a series of articles published in 1938, Coughlin lambasted “Jewish” financiers and their ... Zion. This antisemitic publication falsely purported to be minutes from meetings of Jewish leaders who
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30919. Bernhard Liebster
Bernhard, who was from a religious Jewish family in the Polish town of Oswiecim, emigrated as a ... They settled in Reichenbach where they were one of 13 Jewish families. Bernhard worked as a shoemaker ... Reichenbach lived contentedly with their Jewish neighbors, even after nationwide ... campaign to "cleanse" Reichenbach of its Jewish inhabitants. Bernhard was sent to the
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30920. Sabina Szwarc
Sabina grew up in a Jewish family in Piotrkow Trybunalski, a small industrial city southeast of ... Warsaw. Her family lived in a non-Jewish neighborhood. Her father was a businessman and her mother was a ... went on to study at a Jewish secondary school. 1933-39: On September 1, 1939, Germany ... Jewish. She looked offended and continued to work. Sabina was liberated in Regensburg, Germany, by
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30921. Henry Maslowicz
Henry's Jewish parents lived in a Polish town in which their families had lived for 150 years ... The Jewish community enjoyed good relations with their Polish neighbors; the local Polish population ... refused to cooperate when the government encouraged a boycott of Jewish businesses during a wave of ... 't know his own name or why he was in an attic. Henry was discovered by a Jewish social worker and
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30922. Dora Eiger
Jewish, her Yiddish-speaking parents differed from each other in that her mother was deeply religious ... her Jewish name D'vora, Dora attended Jewish schools and joined a Zionist youth organization ... . 1933-39: When Dora visited her uncle near the German border in 1936, she first noticed anti-Jewish
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30923. Catharina Soep
Catharina, called "Ina" by her family and friends, grew up in a religious Jewish household in ... the Amsterdam Jewish community. Ina had one brother, Benno, and a sister ... school, Ina went to a private Jewish school where she studied Jewish history and Hebrew. Ina and her
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30924. Feige Schwarzfink
Feige was born to a religious Jewish family in the small village of Szydlowiec [in Poland]. She ... shoemaker. 1933-39: In the afternoons after public school Feige studied at a Jewish religious school ... Although her parents didn't know it, she attended meetings of the Bund, the Jewish Socialist party. Feige ... their home; that same day the Germans seized Feige and her sister, Esther, and with other young Jewish
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30925. Celia Petranker
Celia was the youngest of three daughters born to Jewish parents living in Stanislav ... his family to Palestine to help build a Jewish homeland. Celia and her sisters attended private Hebrew ... blue Jewish star. The Jews were told to report to the Jewish community center for work assignments