Displaying: 33,176 33,200 of 73,287 matches for “jewish”
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33176. Martin Weiss
their orthodox Jewish household and raised their nine children (Mendl, Issac, Ellen, Cilia, Moshe ... Hungarian 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
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33177. Solomon Goldman collection
Consists of post-war photographs showing Jewish DPs celebrating the declaration of the state of ... recommendation for Slama Goldman from the Innsbruck American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. The collection ... also contained Solomon Goldman's doctoral dissertation, "Education Among Jewish Displaced Persons; The
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33178. Attacks on Jews Shock Americans
Nazi Party’s SA militia and Hitler Youth destroyed hundreds of synagogues and thousands of Jewish-owned ... shops. Nearly 30,000 Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps. American newspapers ... unleashed a series of attacks against the Jewish population in Germany and its recently incorporated
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33179. Oral History: Regina Prudnikova
. Born to a Christian family in Lithuania, Regina Prudnikova had once worked for a local Jewish family as ... near Regina’s town, Pilviškių. Regina watched as her neighbors then broke into Jewish ... Jewish neighbors, recalling how she and others took advantage of attacks on Jews to steal their
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33180. Oral History: Stefan Kucharek
Kucharek attended school with Polish-Jewish neighbors and later worked various jobs in his small town of ... doing track maintenance. He soon got a job driving trains full of Jewish victims into the trainyard of ... the facility in late 1943, camp personnel had murdered more than 900,000 Jewish people in Treblinka
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33181. Film: Standing by on Kristallnacht
of November 9, 1938. Over the following days, non-Jewish Germans joined Nazi security forces in ... terrorizing and beating Jewish people in the streets. Across Germany, they burned synagogues and looted ... with the burning and destruction of Jewish businesses and places of worship in Bielefeld, Germany. They
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33182. Oral History: Juozas Aleksynas
Oral History: Juozas Aleksynas BAE7b6BV7R0 Local “Auxiliary Police” Shoot Jewish ... Security Police and participated in several massacres of Jewish people in eastern Europe in 1941. In this ... interview, Aleksynas strains to explain what led him to shoot Jewish parents and their small children
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33183. A Steady Job—With “Benefits”
anti-Jewish laws. They also helped to confine Jews to ghettos, where many died of starvation and ... expense of a desperate Jewish population. For many officers, blackmail, robbery, and bribes could provide ... police Jewish men
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33184. Deceiving the Victims
Paris police speak to Jewish couples during a wave of mass arrests of Jewish men in May 1941. Officers ... occupied France in 1940, French officials helped to implement anti-Jewish policies. In 1941, Paris police
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33185. Yosel Coller
One of six children, Yosel was raised in a religious Jewish family in Lodz, an industrial city ... in western Poland. His father was a businessman. At the age of 6, Yosel began attending a Jewish day ... in a modest house in the northern section of Lodz. He went to a Jewish day school and had many
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33186. Dezso Rozsa
Dezso was from a Jewish family in Hungary's capital, Budapest. His ... taken power again. Nineteen years ago, in 1920, he pushed through a law to reduce Jewish admissions to ... grades. Now Teleki and other right-wingers have passed a new law that obliges Jewish public school
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33187. Nesse Galperin
Nesse was born to an observant Jewish family in Siauliai, known in Yiddish as Shavl. Her parents ... owned a store that sold dairy products. The city was home to a vibrant Jewish community of almost 10 ... organizations. 1933–39: Nesse's family was very religious and observed all the Jewish laws. She attended
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33188. Lesbians under the Nazi Regime
they were classified as political prisoners or asocials. Jewish lesbians largely faced Nazi persecution ... collaborators murdered an unknown number of Jewish lesbians during World War II ... Jewish or
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33189. Selma Wijnberg
parents ran a small hotel popular with Jewish businessmen traveling in the area. Every Friday there was a ... . 1933-39: At home Selma and her family were observant of Jewish tradition because her mother was ... religious. Their hotel observed the Jewish dietary laws. At the end of Friday evening prayers, they'd gather
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33190. David Bayer
David was the second of four children born to religious Jewish parents in Kozienice, a town in ... Jewish community that constituted over half of the town's population. 1933–39: For most of the ... policies. Jewish homes were marked with the Star of David, a curfew was established, and businesses, like
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33191. Ruth Elisabeth Dahl
Ruth was born into an orthodox Jewish family in Geilenkirchen, a rural German town near the ... and nobody helped their Jewish neighbors. Excluded from public institutions, Ruth attended a private ... took their Jewish neighbors away, Ruth and her parents went into hiding with the help of the Dutch
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33192. Werner Katzenstein
school in Eisenach, some 12 miles from their home. The Katzensteins were one of about two dozen Jewish ... boycott Jewish enterprises. In 1935, Werner's father was forced to close down his business, and two years ... .S. military government of occupation in Germany. He returned to Herleshausen, but there were no Jewish
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33193. Gisella Renate Berg
Inge, in Lechenich, a small village outside of Cologne. The Bergs were an observant Jewish family ... their Jewish and non-Jewish neighbors. 1933–39: Gisella was born several months after the Nazis
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33194. György (George) Pick
György was the only child of middle class Jewish parents living in the Hungarian capital of ... Hungary’s authoritarian government passed the first in a series of major anti-Jewish laws. The legislation ... Jewish, György’s father was conscripted into the Hungarian forced-labor battalions. He was sent to the
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33195. Tania Marcus
The Marcuses took part in the town's vibrant Jewish culture, attended the theater, and hosted ... property. Tania's Jewish school was converted into a Soviet school, where classes were taught in Russian ... been liberated by Soviet troops. Tania became a Hebrew teacher in several Jewish
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33196. Hans (John) Sachs
Hans was born to a Jewish family in the Sudetenland, a region of ... -Jewish friends. 1933–39: By 1936 many of Hans' friends and their families supported the Nazi ... summer, the Sachs' shop, like many other Jewish businesses, was transferred to an “Aryan” trustee. In
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33197. Gerd Jacob Zwienicki
bicycle sales and repair shop in Bremen. His mother, Selma, was descended from a distinguished Jewish ... rabbinical studies in Frankfurt am Main and later at the Jewish Teachers' Seminary in Wuerzburg. On November ... set up a school for Jewish children who had been prohibited from attending all German educational
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33198. Aaron Lejzerowicz
Aaron was one of four children born to a Jewish family in the northeastern Polish town of ... town. Aaron attended a private Jewish school, where he studied the Polish language and history as well ... as Jewish history and Hebrew. 1933-39: On September 1, 1939, Germany
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33199. Jeno Gabor Braun
out of public school because they were Jewish. He was forced to keep his shop open on Saturdays, the ... Jewish sabbath, and then to surrender control to a non-Jewish employee. In the spring of 1944 Jeno was
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33200. Max Diamant (now Josef Burzminski)
Max was born to a Jewish family in the Austrian capital of Vienna. When he was a small child his ... family moved to Przemysl, an urban center in southeastern Poland with a largely Jewish population. Max ... officer ran up: "We need fat Jewish people for soap!" So instead of being shot, they were put on a train