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2901. Displaced Persons: Administration
including 50,000 Jews, who refused to return to the lands where their families had been massacred and where ... arranged for Earl G. Harrison—dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law ... August 1945, Harrison recommended that the Jews be recognized as a ... Committee of Liberated Jews in the American zone. Zalman Grinberg and Samuel Gringauz became its official
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2902. Denmark
In 1933, in a service attended by Danish King Christian X, the Jews of Copenhagen celebrated the ... these Jews were Danish citizens. The rest were German and eastern European refugees. Most Jews lived in ... did not require Jews to register their property and assets, to identify themselves, or to give up ... apartments, homes, and businesses. In addition, Jews were not required to wear a
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2903. Immigration to the United States 1933–41
Johnson-Reed Act, revising American immigration laws around individuals’ “national origins.” The act ... desirable,” including southern and eastern European Jews. Many people born in Asia and Africa were barred ... refugee policy, and American immigration laws were neither revised nor adjusted between 1933 and 1941. The ... racial category in American immigration law. In 1939–1940, more than 50% of all immigrants to the United
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2904. Studio portrait of Martha Loewinger and two of her children wearing yellow stars in the Debrecen ghetto.
NAZI SATELLITE STATES -- Hungary -- JEWS -- Daily Life/Families/Weddings -- After the German ... laws were introduced and the local ant-Semitism grew stronger, Mozes Löwinger withdrew his children ... of Szekszárd to take exams in the local Jewish school. In 1940 the Jews of Decs left the village and ... 1944 Germany occupied Hungary and in April 1944 Jews were ordered to attach a yellow Star of David and
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2905. Anna Seelfreund Grosz
Hungarian government’s antisemitic laws of 1938, 1939, and 1941, which were modeled after the Nuremberg Laws ... agreed to turn over hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews to the custody of the Germans. Hungarian ... authorities decreed that all Jews in Hungary wear the Star of David on the front and back of their clothing ... Under the orders from the Hungarian gendarmerie, Ilona and her daughters, along with other Jews from the
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2906. Memories and Defining Yourself
the war was raging against the Jews in Germany and then in the other countries of Europe, I was ... did what they could to help the needy Jews in Europe. We had a ping-pong table in our basement of ... our rented house, and once a week Jews from our community in Washington, DC, gathered in the ... to the Jews in Europe. Perhaps some of them felt as guilty as I because we were here safe
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2907. Refugees Today
displaced persons. Recognizing their moral failure to help Jews and others fleeing ... The convention provides refugees a wide range of legal protections under international law. These ... from their homes are refugees under international law. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are people ... which they have been living. Under international law, IDPs technically fall under the protection of
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2908. Third Reich
education, and law all came under Nazi control. The Nazi regime also attempted to "coordinate" the German ... law enforcement, education, and medical ... forces. It allowed for agencies of the party, state, and armed forces to operate outside the law when ... inferior" peoples (such as Jews and Roma) and implacable political enemies (such as communists) from
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2909. Public Humiliation
.1 The humiliations the Nazis inflicted on Jews and other victims were not accidental, but rather ... who transgressed Nazi racial law. Moreover, Nazis knew well how potent humiliation could be, as many ... “mixed-race” romantic relationships, such as “Aryans” who dated or married “racially inferior” Jews or ... Jews were also frequent targets for this type of individual humiliation. In 1933, a Jewish lawyer named
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2910. Hasan Sarbakhshian and Parvaneh Vahidmanesh
Jewish population for their book Iranian Jews. The effort would eventually cause them to flee Iran, their ... for their book Iranian Jews. The effort would eventually cause the two of them to flee Iran for the ... and Iraq. And my family was Muslim, but my grandmother was a Jew who converted to Islam by force about ... mainstream, as Jews are increasingly becoming in Iran. Jewish women are required to wear hijab in public. And
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2911. People Have Choices
attain power. They had a significant role in the killings. In all, more than 560,000 Hungarian Jews died ... Jews. They both saved tens of thousands of people. They gave out protective passports and established ... been permitted by the Germans. They also gave out false ones. My father-in-law could draw very well. He ... when Jews were allowed to be on the street was not enough. So she stayed after the curfew. The police
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2912. Mario Finzi
many Italian Jews, his family was well-integrated into Italian society. Even though Fascist leader ... Benito Mussolini came to power in 1922, Jews in Italy continued to live in ... law. 1933-39: In 1938 Mario began practicing law in Milan. But later that year, Mussolini ... 's government issued "racial" laws that prevented Mario from continuing to practice. Mario moved to Paris and
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2913. The United States and the Refugee Crisis, 1938–41
triggered a mass exodus. Hundreds of thousands of Jews sought to flee from under Nazi control ... especially in the capital city of Vienna. Many Austrian Jews immediately sought to flee the country. In order ... throughout Vienna to apply for immigration. At the US consulate, tens of thousands of Austrian Jews applied ... opportunities to Austrian Jews. The State Department could then issue a maximum of 27,370 visas per year for
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2914. Alan Dershowitz
makes the Jew. When I was growing up, antisemitism determined where we could work, where we could live ... need young Jews to see the strengths, the positive aspects of Judaism, not only as a religion but as a ... calls upon his peers to condemn those who would use such rhetoric to justify hatred of Jews. Welcome ... hatred influence our world today. Here's Harvard Law School professor, Alan Dershowitz. ALAN
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2915. Polish Jewish Refugees in Lithuania: Unexpected Rescue, 1940–41
three and a half million Jews in German- and Soviet-occupied territories. In late 1940 and early ... 1941, just months before the Germans began to implement the mass killings of Jews, one group of about 2 ... ,100 Polish Jews found a safe haven. Few of these refugees could have reached safety without the tireless ... British-controlled Palestine, but rigorous laws and policies restricted entrance to both places. The 1924
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2916. Leon Rupnik
. At the beginning of the Italian occupation, there were around 400 Jews in the Province of Ljubljana ... revolutionary communists. Relatively few Jews stayed until the German ... occupation in September 1943. After occupying the Province of Ljubljana, German forces rounded up Jews with ... 1944, they arrested the remaining Jews in Ljubljana and deported them to
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2917. Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment
entry into the profession. Under the new Editors Law of October 4, 1933, the association kept registries ... of “racially pure” editors and journalists, thus excluding Jews and those married to Jews from the ... 14 of the law ordered editors to omit anything “calculated to weaken the strength of the Reich abroad
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2918. A German-Jewish refugee holds her baby girl in her arms on the balcony to her apartment in Amsterdam where her husband and her family had built a new business.
); FAMILIES (WARTIME JEWISH); HOMES (PRIVATE JEWISH); JEWS (GERMAN); LAUNDRY/LAUNDRIES; REFUGEES (JEWISH ... three cousins received professional degrees. Heinz received his doctor of law degree in 1933 signed by ... physician. After completion of his education, Heinz served as a law clerk for a judge in Breisach ... Following the exclusion of Jews from German Civil Service jobs, including the judiciary, Heinz moved to
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2919. A group of young people wearing Stars of David picnic in a field outside the Lodz ghetto.
BADGES (STAR OF DAVID); CHILDREN/YOUTH; EATING/DRINKING; FIELDS; GHETTO/OCCUPATION; JEWS (POLISH ... his brother-in-law, Wiktor Sztajn. They heard a rumor that Abram's mother and sister had also survived ... Poland and reunited with his family. He lived with his mother, sister and brother-in-law in a kibbutz ... the Bricha, an organization to smuggle Jews out of Poland, and also in the "Koordynacja" a Zionist
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2920. A father who had been a passenger on the St. Louis walks down a street in Brussels with his two sons and a friend.
CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS); FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH); JEWS (GERMAN); MANASSE FAMILY (ST. LOUIS ... remained behind with her mother-in-law and youngest child, while Alfred left Germany on board the St. Louis ... 's father Philip Lieblisch, his sister and brother-in-law Liesl and Theodor Rosenthal. On one occasion
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2921. A father and son eat a bowl of soup in their kitchen in the Lodz ghetto.
(WARTIME JEWISH); GHETTO/OCCUPATION; GROSMAN, MENDEL (FAMILY); INTERIORS; JEWS (POLISH); LODZ; TABLES ... -in-law and nephew of photographer Mendel Grosman. The nephew was named Yankele Freitag. ... father died on March 7, 1942, his mother died on July 16, 1942 and his brother-in-law Szymon Frajtag died
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2922. Joseph Dekalo and Dora Levy pose in the snow prior to leaving Bulgaria for Palestine.
CHILDREN/YOUTH; CLOSE-UPS; DP CAMPS/CENTERS; DPS (JEWISH); FAMILIES (POSTWAR JEWISH); JEWS ... Though the Bulgarian government never deported its Jews to concentration camps, in 1943 it expelled all ... the Jews from Sofia. The Dekalo family was sent to Stara Zagora in the south where they remained for ... and took care of each other and even set up a communal kitchen. Jews were required to wear the Star
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2923. Breckinridge Long
School of Law, and received a Master’s degree from Princeton in 1909. Long practiced law in ... more than 300,000 people born in Germany—mostly Jews—to add their names to the waiting list for an ... plan to murder European Jews became available in US newspapers and magazines. Breckinridge Long ... attempted to dispel public pressure to take specific rescue action on behalf of European Jews. He chose the
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2924. Poster Translations
leaders, who had independently enacted major anti-Jewish laws, willingly handed over foreign-born Jews and ... Why were there some zealous participants in the persecution of Jews, while most simply went along or ... Local residents look on as Austrian Nazis force Jews to scrub the pavement following the German ... racial ideology that Jews posed a mortal threat to the survival of the “superior Aryan” people. Those
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2925. Rifka "Rita" Lifschitz Rubinstein
factory alongside his brother-in-law. Rita was raised in a multi-generational household, which her family ... grandmother, Tzirel, and her aunt’s mother-in-law. The house was equipped with modern amenities such as ... observant Jew. Văscăuti was part of a region called Bukovina. In June 1940, the Soviet Union occupied the ... When the Romanian soldiers entered Văscăuti, they ordered all Jews to prepare to leave in 24 hours