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3051. The Holocaust at the Crossroads of Empire
African Jews and the importance of African perspectives to the history of the Holocaust. This half-day ... workshop explores the history of the Jews of West and Sub-Saharan Africa and highlights the emerging ... interest among African scholars in the imperial reach of Nazi and Vichy race laws, forced labor, and ... Global Studies, University of South Florida (Tampa) Africans, Americans of African Descent, and Jews
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3052. Louise Lawrence-Israëls
Netherlands were subjected to a variety of German-imposed antisemitic laws and restrictions. Jews had to wear ... had invaded and occupied the Netherlands in May 1940. At the time of Louise’s birth, Jews in the ... ’s family’s textile business. Beginning in July 1942, the Germans deported Jews from the Netherlands ... to killing centers in German-occupied Poland. That summer more than 100 Jews from Haarlem were taken
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3053. Helen Luksenburg
the end of the year, a host of discriminatory laws had been imposed upon the Jews, including an order ... open ghetto was established in Sosnowiec and the German authorities began deporting Jews from Sosnowiec ... her father and her brother worked at a metal factory. The following spring the remaining Jews ... including Helen’s family, were forced into a closed ghetto. Since the beginning of the occupation Jews had
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3054. Remembering the Forgotten
. He was the only Jew in the area to do that. The memories I have of him were that he was a fearless ... were going to round up the Jews. All the communities found themselves helpless. We couldn’t trust our ... were Russian and hated the Hungarians as much as the Jews did. Hearing of the inevitable roundup of the ... Jews, my father debated if we should go into hiding in the mountains. For a moment he thought that he
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3055. Elie Wiesel
Exodus, based on Leon Uris’s novel, followed by a debate between three Jews and three Arabs. At that time ... Uris’s novel, followed by a debate between three Jews and three Arabs. At that time, there was so much ... Since then, I have read many of his books, starting with the Jews of Silence, in which he described the ... plight of the Jews in the former Soviet Union, then the trilogy (Night, Dawn, and Day), the two volumes
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3056. Edward R. Murrow
Committee facilitated the employment of refugee scholars in the United States, many of whom were Jews who ... had been barred from their positions under Nazi racial laws. The ECADFS made grants-in-aid directly to ... . Reports about the mass murder of Europe’s Jews became available to American radio networks in early 1942 ... more than one million Jews had been killed. Few other details were offered until December 13, 1942
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3057. Video: Criminal Justice Professionals during the Holocaust
prosecutors, and law enforcement officers – during the Holocaust and the impact of their actions on Jews
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3058. Collaboration
(Jewish Law). The Statut defined Jews by race and restricted their rights. Vichy authorities also ... the Nazi regime in the annihilation of the European Jews and with other Nazi racial policies. Such ... terrorized, robbed, and murdered indigenous Jews, either under German guidance or on their own initiative ... Hungary were responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jews in their home territory. In these and other
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3059. Locating the Victims
census of 1939 included data on “race,” identifying who was a Jew as defined by the Nuremberg Laws ... Germans and their collaborators used paper records and local knowledge to identify Jews to be rounded up ... Protestant and Catholic churches (for converted Jews), government tax records, and police records, including ... registries of Jews compiled by local, collaborating police. In both Germany and occupied countries
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3060. Museum 25th Anniversary Marks Bold Vision and Campaign Extension
not done for the Jews of Europe. More than 43 million people have visited the Museum—including ... the lessons of the Holocaust but to act on them. The Museum’s leadership programs for law enforcement ... have trained 150,000 law enforcement professionals at the federal, state, and local levels, including
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3061. Post–Korea
She filed a claim with a highly recommended attorney in Trier, a German Jew who survived the war and ... Brooklyn College friend Nathan, another survivor from Belgium, who practiced real estate law but who had ... and personal use only, or for fair use as defined in the United States copyright laws.
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3062. Sitting at the Survivors’ Desk
is a nurse, that her daughter’s in-laws are survivors. They lived in Poland, and when the German ... two hours allowed for Jews, but she got papers for the whole family. I am sure she was wearing the ... or for fair use as defined in the United States copyright laws.
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3063. Jacob Wiener
January 30, 1933 and the Nazi party came to power. Antisemitic laws were ... implemented as soon as Hitler took office. By April 1933 German law restricted the number of Jewish students ... Kristallnacht, antisemitism grew worse. All Jews were prohibited from attending
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3064. The Police in the Weimar Republic
equality before the law. It ensured such civil liberties as freedom of speech, press, religion, and ... demonstrate and speak much more freely. By law, the police could not stop them from publicly expressing their ... example, they vandalized businesses they considered Jewish. They also attacked unarmed Jews in the streets
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3065. Genocide Timeline
Included among these policies and involving mass murder were the attempt to murder all European Jews, which ... an international law on genocide. On December 9, 1948, the final text ... grave breaches of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, violations of the laws or customs of war, genocide, and
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3066. Hans Frank
Hans Frank (1900–1946) was an early supporter of the Nazi Party. He studied law and eventually ... civilians, as well as the deportation and murder of Polish Jews. Frank was found guilty on
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3067. Antisemitism
in western Europe during the 1800s, Jews became almost equal citizens under the law. At the same time ... . Antisemitism Throughout history Jews have faced prejudice and discrimination, known as ... countries Jews were welcomed, and they enjoyed long periods of peace with their neighbors. In European ... societies where the population was primarily Christian, Jews found themselves increasingly isolated as
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3068. German Jewish Refugees, 1933–1939
It was becoming more and more evident that, um, that Jews, uh, should leave if ... Several factors determined the ebb and flow of emigration of Jews from ... and physical violence, many Jews fled Germany. Until October 1941, German policy officially encouraged ... Jewish emigration. Gradually, however, the Nazis sought to deprive Jews fleeing Germany of their property
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3069. Faye Schulman
the Germans killed 1,850 Jews from the Lenin ghetto, including Faye's parents, sisters, and younger ... mostly of escaped Soviet Red Army POWs. She was accepted because her brother-in-law had been a doctor and ... people to know that there was resistance. Jews did not go like sheep to the slaughter. I was a
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3070. Life After the Holocaust: Blanka Rothschild
mother and father were ahm... non-observant Jews. However, the tradition was kept up. We went for all the ... said in Polish, "This is my grandmother." Narrator: It was the son-in-law of her grandmother ... in and out. She's bright. She is in her first year of law school, wants to study environmental law ... I did not have Hebrew education. Neither did my mother. Ah... I, I'm an extremely good Jew at heart
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3071. Nazi Propaganda
executive measures against Jews, propaganda campaigns created an atmosphere tolerant of violence against ... Jews, particularly in 1935 (before the ... Nuremberg Race Laws of September) and in 1938 (prior to the ... Kristallnacht). Propaganda also encouraged passivity and acceptance of the impending measures against Jews, as
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3072. Group Activity
his now-famous surname, Codrescu reveals something about his own identity as a Jew, a poet, and an ... relationships among Jews, Muslims, and Hindus in India. Learn more Ilan Stavans Ilan Stavans has long thought ... of himself as an outsider, first as a Jew growing up in Mexico and now as a Mexican living in America ... expressions of intolerance.) Southern Poverty Law Center (external link) (Internationally known for its
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3073. Ruth Cohen
neighboring Hungary, an ally of Germany. Hungarian anti-Jewish laws put restrictions on the country’s Jews ... were Orthodox Jews as well as Zionists and Ruth and her siblings were sent to the Hebrew Gymnasium, a ... live with them from Slovakia, where Jews were being deported to killing centers. In 1942, Ruth’s mother
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3074. Maryla Orgel Korn
-Jewish laws. They confiscated Jewish businesses and sold them to non-Jews. The Muntz family ... establishing and sealing off a ghetto in spring 1942, the Germans began to remove Jews for incarceration in ... forced labor camps on April 16. Fearing increasing danger as Jews were being deported to forced
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3075. Laura Auketayeva
journalist and historian, and son-in-law of Sholom Aleichem. Laura published several articles, including “A ... Eastern and Central European Jews who fled or were evacuated to the interior of the Soviet Union? How did ... the way Eastern and Central European Jews recounted their years during and after the war. Laura will ... Central Asian republics they were sent to. Despite the rising number of monographs on Jews and the Soviet