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30976. Mamlock House
Mamlock House, a Jewish center where many meetings and lectures were given. by Alfred Traum Two years ago ... Jewish center where many meetings and lectures were given. The place was open, although there didn ... plaques honoring members of the local Jewish community who had made the ultimate sacrifice for their
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30977. Schiffchen oder Hütchen (Little Boat or Little Hat)
when Jewish stores were boycotted and my father lost his linen store in Bad Kreuznach where we lived. I ... to sell her ice cream to a Jewish family even though the community of Bad Kreuznach forbade such ... their terror of the Jewish population when Hitler first came into power. I think I should be troubled
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30978. Frank Cohn
nation-wide economic boycott targeting Jewish-owned businesses. A demonstration outside the Cohns store ... school, his parents placed him into a private Jewish school. Soon after Frank’s Bar Mitzvah, in ... wave of anti-Jewish violence referred to as Kristallnacht took place throughout Nazi Germany. In
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30979. Holocaust Survivor Al Munzer Delivers Remarks at Program Spotlighting China's Persecution of Uyghurs
Indonesian Muslim nanny risked their lives to rescue a 9-month-old Jewish baby. Tolé Madna, the three Madna ... But Mima Saïna had a heart of gold and cared for this Jewish baby as if it were her own. People asked ... Tolé Madna why he risked the lives of his family to take in a Jewish baby. His response was a simple
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30980. Laure Guilbert
Traces,” in Naomi Jackson, Rebecca Pappas, Toni Shapiro-Phim (eds.), Handbook of Jewishness and Dance in ... and Jewishness in the Dance World,” Center for Jewish Studies, Tempe, 13-15 Oct. 2018), Oxford
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30981. Outreach in the Middle East and North Africa
marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, to honor the six million Jewish victims ... students dedicated to preserving Moroccan Jewish heritage and culture. It has organized several workshops ... Jewish community through exhibitions, film screenings and book presentations, as well as workshops for
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30982. A Moment of Great Joy
States with my parents and my younger brother Ernest, far away from the persecution of the Jewish people ... world. We disembarked in New York at the beginning of a Jewish New Year. On this Jewish New Year, 2020
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30983. Mukačevo: My Hometown
), Hebrew, German, French, and Russian. There were many cheders throughout the city where Jewish boys went ... to get their religious education after school and Bet Yaakov programs were held for Jewish girls. I ... attended the Hebrew Gymnasium, one of the top schools in the area and, for my Jewish education, I went to a
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30984. My Father
for Jews to find employment, he focused on selling baskets of berries to the Jewish people of our town ... feel that I was an important person in his life. After Kristallnacht, November 10, 1938, many Jewish ... Hebrew school because he wanted to make sure that they studied the Torah and learned about their Jewish
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30985. Andrew “Andy” Jampoler
educated Jewish families who were assimilated into Polish society, spoke Polish at home, and did not ... observe Jewish religious traditions. In September 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union ... and killed Jews in a violent pogrom. German occupiers confiscated and looted Jewish-owned property
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30986. Martin "Marty" Weiss
orthodox Jewish household and raised their nine children (Mendl, Issac, Ellen, Cilia, Moshe, Hannah, Marty ... regime also required Jewish men, including Marty’s two oldest brothers, Mendl and Issac, to serve in ... forced labor battalions. Beginning in 1941, tens of thousands of Jewish men were sent to the eastern
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30987. In Memoriam
Rose Thering, a passionate voice against antisemitism and a pioneer in Catholic-Jewish relations ... of Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who helped smuggle more than 2,500 Jewish children out of ... Sakowska, a senior historian at the Warsaw Jewish Historical Institute. Harvey M. “Bud” Meyerhoff (1927
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30988. Ghettos in occupied Poland, 1939-1941
established. Ghettos were enclosed districts of a city in which the Germans forced the Jewish population to ... live under miserable conditions. Ghettos isolated Jews by separating Jewish communities both from the ... population as a whole and from neighboring Jewish communities. The Warsaw ghetto, established on October 12
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30989. Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed describes the deportation of her mother and brother from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka
Vladka belonged to the Zukunft youth movement of the Bund (the Jewish Socialist party). She was ... active in the Warsaw ghetto underground as a member of the Jewish Fighting ... Jewish underground and for Jews in camps, forests, and other ghettos.
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30990. Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed describes watching the burning of the Warsaw ghetto from a building outside the ghetto
Vladka belonged to the Zukunft youth movement of the Bund (the Jewish Socialist party). She was ... active in the Warsaw ghetto underground as a member of the Jewish Fighting ... Jewish underground and for Jews in camps, forests, and other ghettos.
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30991. Einsatzgruppen in Liepaja, Latvia
contrary to orders, by a German soldier. Before the war, the Jewish population of Liepaja stood at more ... than 7,000 residents. Einsatzgruppen shot almost the entire Jewish population of the town. When the ... They are best known for their role in the murder of more than a million Jewish victims during the
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30992. Voyage of the "St. Louis," May 13-June 17, 1939
The plight of German-Jewish refugees, persecuted at home and unwanted abroad, is illustrated by ... German ocean liner, left Germany with almost a thousand Jewish refugees on ... German forces occupied western Europe in 1940, many "St. Louis" passengers and other Jewish refugees who
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30993. German Jews' Passports Declared Invalid
that by January 1, 1939, Jewish men and women bearing first names of “non-Jewish” origin had to add ... cards that indicated their heritage, and, in the autumn of 1938, all Jewish passports were stamped with
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30994. St. Louis Sets Sail
Jews fleeing from Nazi Germany. The majority of the Jewish passengers had applied for visas to ... negotiations initiated by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the ship was able to dock in ... accept the refugees. The plight of German-Jewish refugees
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30995. Mohamed Helmy
Helmy witnessed the dismissal of Jewish ... the implementation of anti-Jewish legislation. According to Nazi racial ... Jews began, Anna Boros (later Gutman), a Jewish patient of Helmy’s, needed a hiding place. Despite
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30996. Auschwitz: Key Dates
100,000 Jewish men and 50,000 Jewish women would be deported from Germany to Auschwitz as forced ... Jewish prisoner "special detachment" (Sonderkommando) that was forced to
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30997. Theresienstadt: Final Weeks, Liberation, and Postwar Trials
the Council of Jewish Elders in Theresienstadt. Jacob Edelstein, the representative of the ... put up by Jewish organizations in an escrowed account in Switzerland. The 1,200 Jews (523 German Jews ... Buchenwald and Gross-Rosen) and subcamps. Most, but not all were Jewish. More
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30998. Killing Center Revolts
,000 Jewish prisoners remained in the camp. Aware that they were soon to be killed, the prisoners decided to ... Killing operations take place until mid-July 1944. Beginning in September 1944, a group of Jewish ... remaining Jewish prisoners. Some of the prisoners resist and escape. Three prisoners survive. At least 172
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30999. Julien Bryan
the tribal areas of the Caucasus Mountains, avant-garde and Jewish theater performances, dance ... -Jewish measures. This material was used in numerous film and slide lectures he delivered at auditoriums ... scenes of Jewish life in Warsaw and Krakow and brought him close to the Polish people in cities and on
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31000. George Kadish
Jewish council in Kovno was known) food gardens and in schools, orphanages, and workshops. In ... high-ranking officer in the ghetto’s Jewish police, to help hide his negatives and prints. Zupowitz ... residing in displaced persons camps. Since then, several museums, including New York’s Jewish Museum, have