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2801. Saul Cassel brings his infant daughter to a beach.
BEACHES; CHILDREN (0-3 YEARS); CLOSE-UPS; FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH); JEWS (GERMAN) ... Laws. He then opened up his own wholesale store of his own until he left Germany. When Margot was five ... Isidor and his family. Saul found work in the auction house of a Russian Jew from Shanghai. However, he ... services in the synagogue that was originally built by Sephardic Jews. They had a very active Jewish life
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2802. Rabbi Yehuda Lipot Meisels (front row, second from right) leads a procession to the dedication of a monument to the victims of the Pocking concentration camp.
CLERGY/RABBIS/CHAPLAINS (JEWISH); DP CAMPS/CENTERS; DPS (JEWISH); JEWS (RELIGIOUS); MARCHING ... registered in the names of his wife and daughters. When the racial laws came into existence his antique ... of his home. It was believed that a Jew reported him to the authorities, and he was slated to be ... forced labor camp, many Jews who worked there were murdered and their bodies flung into a mass grave
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2803. Sara Piroshka (standing left) attends a cousin's wedding in Budapest.
CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS); FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH); FLOWERS; GROUP PORTRAITS; JEWS (HUNGARIAN ... registered in the names of his wife and daughters. When the racial laws came into existence his antique ... of his home. It was believed that a Jew reported him to the authorities, and he was slated to be ... forced labor camp, many Jews who worked there were murdered and their bodies flung into a mass grave
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2804. Sara Meisels poses with her two daughters Miriam (left) and Yehudit (right.).
NAZI SATELLITE STATES -- Hungary -- JEWS -- Daily Life/Families/Weddings -- Before the German ... registered in the names of his wife and daughters. When the racial laws came into existence his antique ... of his home. It was believed that a Jew reported him to the authorities, and he was slated to be ... forced labor camp, many Jews who worked there were murdered and their bodies flung into a mass grave
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2805. A first grade class in Metz, France. Pictured in the back row, third child from the left is Lazare Tannenbaum.
CHILDREN (0-3 YEARS); CHILDREN/YOUTH; FRENCH; GROUP PORTRAITS; JEWS (FRENCH); SCHOOLS/TEACHERS ... fall of 1941, the round up of Jews for transport to concentration camps had begun. To obtain false ... and free France. With the help of his brother-in-law and a friend from his Navy service, he secured ... France led to increased denunciations of Jews and deportations. George and Laja moved a fifth time, this
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2806. Refuge in Latin America
intensified, both popular and official resistance to the acceptance of European Jews and other foreigners ... These attitudes were reflected in increasingly tight immigration laws introduced throughout Latin ... and Uruguay in 1939). The results of these laws were striking. Argentina, which had admitted 79 ... ,000 Jews entered Argentina illegally, crossing the border from neighboring countries. Brazil admitted 96
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2807. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
United States Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is entrusted to interpret the rule of law and protect ... the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. As one of few Jews and even fewer women to enter the ... GINSBURG: I had the good fortune of being a Jew born in the United States. Our parents, one of whom came ... from Odessa—an area where the Jews were fearful of pogroms. I might not have been here—I more than
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2808. What were some similarities between racism in Nazi Germany and in the United States, 1920s-1940s?
marriages. None of the US “blood fraction” laws applied to Jews (who were considered “white”). However, the ... was less stringent than the Virginia law, tracing “blood heritage” of Jews back only three generations ... state laws systematically suppressed Black people, as well as in many states beyond. Jews in Nazi ... racially pure Germany free of Jews. Isolation, impoverishment, and terror were used to pressure Jews to
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2809. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
politics after attending Harvard University and Columbia Law School. In 1905, he married his distant cousin ... 1945. Roosevelt and Early Reaction to Nazi Persecution of Jews Roosevelt’s main focus ... -informed about the Hitler regime and its anti-Jewish policies. New antisemitic laws and physical ... attacks on Jews in Germany were headline news in the United States throughout 1933. Thousands of Americans
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2810. About Benjamin Ferencz
norms, laws, and treaties; helping to build the political will for new international courts; and writing ... burning desire to press for global peace. In 1943, Mr. Ferencz graduated from Harvard Law School and soon ... were liberated. His mission was to gather credible evidence that could be used in a court of law to try ... he prepared to practice law. Soon thereafter, the US Government recruited Mr. Ferencz to join the
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2811. Ellen Zweig
Jewish school that had been established because of this law. Ellen became increasingly aware of the ... taken to the movie theater by her father’s Catholic secretary since laws prohibited her parents from ... that her son-in-law was needed to complete a ten-person group in order to say memorial prayers for ... ’s aunt Gerda was married to a Catholic man named Fritz. Despite laws imposed by the Nazi Party forbidding
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2812. Avraham Tory
youth movement, Tory attended law school in Kovno and in the United States. Completing his law degree in ... law, one of the few professors at the time who was Jewish. Soviet Annexation and German ... he returned to Kovno and found himself with the rest of Kovno’s Jews caught in ... Are The Laws—German Style” and the yearbook “Slobodka Ghetto 1942.” Tory was deeply involved in
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2813. Robert "Bob" Behr
laws. In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws stripped German Jews of their rights of citizenship. By denying their ... Germanness, this act of exclusion hurt Robert’s patriotic parents deeply. The laws also forbade Jews from ... and Robert were deported to the Theresienstadt ghetto. Certain groups of Jews (including the elderly ... were deported to Theresienstadt. Most of their fellow deportees were elderly Jews. Robert’s stepfather
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2814. Past Seminars
targets of state violence? How did racialization affect queer Jews and queer Poles? When did gender ... Jews and other victims of the Nazis; the Black experience in Nazi Germany; the history of race in the ... responses to persecution of Jews and Jewish victims, inside and outside of Europe, from 1933 and into the ... examined the Soviet Jewish communities and culture prior to World War II and the relations between Jews and
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2815. Basia Berkowicz sits on the life preserver of the SS Pilsudski while en route to New York.
); IMMIGRATION; IMMIGRATION (TO USA); JEWS (POLISH); LIFE PRESERVERS; SHIPS; SHIPS (PILSUDSKI) ... tourist visas for his wife and daughter. Since he was of military age, Chaim was required by law to
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2816. Members of the Hermanns family pose outside their dry goods store in Moenchengladbach, Germany.
FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH); HERMANNS FAMILY (ST. LOUIS); JEWS (GERMAN); SIGNS; SIGNS/BANNERS/POSTERS ... emigrate immediately, he was released. His brother-in-law in New York arranged the purchase of a Cuban
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2817. Students at the Mediterranean School in Recco, Italy line up outside on the grounds of the school.
CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS); CHILDREN/YOUTH; JEWS (GERMAN); REFUGEE CAMPS/CENTERS; REFUGEES (JEWISH ... stability. In 1938, under pressure from Germany, Italy adopted harsh racial laws, which among other things ... prohibited Jews from teaching. Dr. Weil had to close his school, and he and his family fled again. Senta
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2818. Historical Resources
eastern Europe, the Wehrmacht targeted Jews and other supposed racial inferiors, civilian and military ... codes of honorable military conduct and international law. A few individuals acted according to those ... codes and laws, but the vast majority of German soldiers, and especially senior officers, cooperated ... in Ethics, Law, and Leadership uses a World War II case study as the basis for educating
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2819. The Unspeakable
authorities didn’t start persecuting Jews until October 1940, almost six months after the invasion began on ... May 10, 1940. In addition, anti-Jewish laws were introduced gradually to avoid alarming the Jewish ... population, which might have provoked disobedience among Jews and opposition from Belgian authorities. The ... because the German authorities didn’t start persecuting Jews until October 1940, almost six months after
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2820. Abdol Hossein Sardari (1895–1981)
Persians by culture and intermarriage and should not be considered Jews under Vichy law. Writing on ... Iranian diplomat Abdol Hossein Sardari provided critical assistance to Iranian Jews in occupied ... capacity, Sardari appealed on several occasions to exempt Iranian and other Central Asian Jews living in ... -4078-8600-f438a138c674] Jews from Iran Residing in France At the
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2821. Betty Leiter Lauchheimer
-Jewish laws went into effect: Jews couldn't use the bus; Jews had to wear yellow stars; Jews couldn ... son-in-law. Hoodlums stoned the house, shattering the windows. Betty, her daughter, and granddaughter ... Dachau concentration camp; three weeks later, Max and his son-in-law returned home. That May, Max died of ... -law appealed to the local Gestapo to spare them, hoping they might
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2822. The Riegner Telegram
persecution of Jews was not a secret in the years before World War II and the Holocaust. Almost immediately ... Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, newspapers and magazines abroad carried stories about new German laws ... targeting Jews, the establishment of concentration camps, and violence against Jews throughout Germany ... hundreds of thousands of Jews seeking to leave Europe. After
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2823. Antisemitism in History: The Era of Nationalism, 1800–1918
constitutions the principle of equality under the law. They dropped all restrictions on residence or ... occupational activities for Jews and other national and religious minorities. At the same time, the ... societies of Europe underwent rapid economic change and social dislocation. The emancipation of the Jews ... allowed them to live and work among non-Jews, but exposed them to a new form of political antisemitism. It
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2824. Jewish Badge: Origins
badge to identify Jews and Christians within the Muslim population. Jews and Christians living ... under Sharia Law were considered “People of the Book,” whose belief in the God of Abraham predated the ... badges for Jews varied. Under Caliph Haroun al-Rashid (807 CE), Jews in Baghdad had to wear yellow belts ... or fringes. Under Caliph al-Mutawakkil, (847-61) Jews wore a patch in the shape of a donkey, while
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2825. Righteous Among the Nations
Background In 1953, the Knesset, Israel's parliament, passed a law creating Yad Vashem ... million Jews killed by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust ... their lives to save Jews." The title Righteous Among the Nations is taken from Jewish tradition (the ... literature of the Sages) that describes non-Jews who helped the Jewish people in times of need. The