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526. My Community
to relocate. This was in Poland and my mother, sister, and I were trying desperately to survive under ... mother, sister, and I were trying desperately to survive under the Soviet, and then German occupation. My ... . A few of us did survive to tell the tale, and my mother managed to save my sister and me, which she
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527. Liberation
entered Bergen-Belsen. Although the Germans had attempted to empty the camps of surviving prisoners and ... surviving prisoners, but many of them were too weak to digest food and could not be saved. In spite of the ... few looked forward to being reunited with other family members, some felt guilty for surviving when so
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528. Charles Bedzow
older sister Leah, younger sister Sonia, and younger brother Benny and almost all survived the ... survived the war, his sister Sonia was not so fortunate. On one of her missions to bring medicine and Jews ... Chasia, having survived alongside him all those years in the forest, lived with Charles and his family
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529. Remaining Jewish Population of Europe in 1945
communities across Europe were shattered. Many of those who survived were determined to leave Europe and start ... three—had been killed. Most of the surviving remnant of European Jewry decided to leave Europe. Hundreds ... for surviving Jews, and we found them. And sometimes these meetings were so packed with emotion that I
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530. One Survivor Remembers Film
One Survivor Remembers is Gerda Weissmann’s account of surviving the Holocaust. This film was ... Activity Teaching with Holocaust Survivor Testimony Gerda Weissmann’s account of surviving the
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531. Killing Centers: In Depth
beings. Those few prisoners who were selected to survive, temporarily, were deployed in some fashion in ... temporary survival worked in the administration-reception area, facilitating detraining, disrobing ... centers and related actions. Approximately 300 prisoners survived ... the three camps. Almost all of those who survived did so by
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532. Sarah Wildman
to both emigrate, but also survive. So I wanted to paint that picture as much as possible, and ... loans in amounts of $20 and $40. And he can barely survive. But it’s at this moment that he’s being told ... was not simply survival or not survival, but the world that you’d left behind had disintegrated, but
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533. National Leadership Awards
were rescued by Oskar Schindler. Helen passed away in 2018, survived by her three children and four ... Lenny Rosenblatt are both children of Holocaust survivors from Poland. Lenny’s parents survived the Łódz ... ghetto and several concentration camps, and Janet’s parents survived by hiding underground and by ... survived the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and spent the following six years with her sister, Claire, in refugee
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534. Reunion in Ebensee
was only nine months old. My mother survived, but my sisters and father did not. My sisters were ... Mauthausen, to Gusen, to Steyr, and finally to Ebensee. He survived the hardships of the camp but died ... old. My mother survived, but my sisters and father did not. My sisters were killed in Auschwitz. And ... Steyr, and finally to Ebensee. He survived the hardships of the camp but died two months later of
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535. 1943: Key Dates
Treblinka 2 killing center. Almost none of them survive. March 15German SS ... none of them survive. April 4King Boris of Bulgaria informs German ... 7,000 Jews during the suppression of the uprising and deport another 7,000 of those who survive the ... office will send approximately 42,000 surviving Warsaw ghetto residents to Lublin/Majdanek concentration
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536. Lublin/Majdanek Concentration Camp: Conditions
). The surviving documentation is insufficient to determine whether and how many of the Jewish survivors ... surviving Jews from various subcamps of Majdanek were brought to the main camp for eventual evacuation west ... early autumn of 1943, the surviving forced labor-camps in District Lublin—Budzyn ... Heinkel aircraft parts factory, survived until the transfer of the last 1,000 prisoners to Majdanek in May
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537. Deportations to Killing Centers
's surviving Roma and Sinti (so-called "Gypsy") residents were also deported ... deported by rail. Fewer than 500 survived the Operation ... Reinhard killing centers. Only a handful of Jews survived the transports to Chelmno. Perhaps as many as 100 ... ,000 Jews survived deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, having been selected for forced labor upon arrival.
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538. Steven Fenves First Person Interview
survival with thousands of visitors. This First Person program features an interview with Steven Fenves who ... was born on June 6, 1931, in Subotica, Yugoslavia. He survived internment in Auschwitz-Birkenau and
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539. Estelle Laughlin First Person Interview
survival with thousands of visitors at the Museum. This recorded program features Estelle Laughlin who was ... born in Warsaw, Poland, on July 9, 1929. During the Holocaust she survived the Warsaw ghetto, as well
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540. Gerda Weissmann Klein
Gerda Klein survived the Holocaust and was liberated by an American soldier who she eventually ... survived that march, and, in fact, met her husband among the American soldiers who liberated her in 1945 ... don't feel it's been, you know, pixie dust that has surrounded me, and I feel, you know, survival is
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541. Irene Fogel Weiss
British Army. A few aunts and uncles survived, but Irene and Serena were the only surviving children from ... the family. Irene, Serena, and Rose lived together with their surviving relatives in Teplice-Šanov in
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542. Major Gift Enables Museum to Launch Revitalization of Permanent Exhibition
survived six years in many concentration camps including Auschwitz, and his mother, age 93, survived the ... sisters who survived with her,” continued Mr. Holt. “We are immensely grateful to Allan and Shelley for
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543. My Last Vacation
remnants of my family that survived the Holocaust did not live in Poland any more. By Halina Yasharoff ... remnants of my family that survived the Holocaust did not live in Poland any more. But we seemed to always ... survived the Holocaust posing as Catholics, having bought false papers from a priest and managed to
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544. For a Rainy Day (Men Zol Nit Bedarfen)
survive in the ghetto. One night I returned to my little “grave” without any food. I was very tired and ... me that I would never survive the harsh winter ahead. He would take me to the authorities and ... face. He repeated that I would not survive the winter but said he’d let me go. He really was not a
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545. Laure Guilbert
their escape, their routes, their sociocultural and artistic experiences that mingled survival dynamics ... persecution by the SS officers and as survival strategies by the deportees. The goal of this research is to ... (36, special issue: 2019, 11-16), and, “The Micro-Gestures of Survival: Searching for the Forgotten
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546. Rescue and Resistance
and Resistance Some Jews survived the "Final Solution," the Nazi plan to kill the Jews of Europe ... secret attic apartment in Amsterdam. With the aid of friends who took great risks, the Franks survived in ... in February or March of 1945. Only their father survives. Anne Frank is one of hundreds of thousands
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547. Killing Center Revolts
escape, and about a third of them survived German efforts to recapture them. Two inmates of ... German police and troops. Most of the camp is burned by prisoners during the uprising. The surviving ... remaining Jewish prisoners. Some of the prisoners resist and escape. Three prisoners survive. At least 172
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548. Jasenovac
permitted the Germans to transfer most of Croatia's surviving Jews (about 7,000 in total), including most of ... to escape. The guards murdered most of the surviving prisoners before dismantling the last three ... those documents that survived, and the ideological agendas of postwar partisan scholarship and
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549. Oskar Schindler
Gross-Rosen concentration camp and thereby facilitated the survival of around 800 Jewish men whom ... justified the existence of the subcamp as an armaments factory. This facilitated the survival of over 1 ... those whose survival he facilitated—and their descendants—lobbied for and financed the transfer of his
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550. A Symbol of Hope: Louise-Lawrence Israëls’s Chair
for her second birthday became a symbol of her family’s survival. In this episode of Curators Corner ... for her second birthday became a symbol of her family’s survival.