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1. Rescue in Budapest, 1944-1945
Holocaust. Supported by the American War Refugee Board (WRB) and the American ... Sweden's embassy in Budapest, led one of the most extensive and successful rescue efforts during the ... documents testifying that the Jews were under the protection of neutral Sweden. Diplomats from other neutral ... countries also participated in the rescue effort. Carl Lutz, a Swiss diplomat, issued certificates of
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2. Major European war crimes trials, 1943-1947
experiments. These war criminals were tried by military courts in the British, American, French, and Soviet ... Soviet Union, and the United States. The overwhelming majority of post 1945 war ... concentration camp guards and commandants, police officers, members of the ... zones of occupied Germany and Austria; and in Italy. Others were tried by the courts of those countries
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3. European Jewish population distribution, ca. 1933
Jews have lived in Europe for more than two thousand years. The American Jewish Yearbook placed ... the total Jewish population of Europe at about 9.5 million in 1933. This ... number represented more than 60 percent of the world's Jewish population, which was estimated at 15 ... .3 million. Most European Jews resided in eastern Europe, with about 5 1/2 million Jews living in Poland and