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1. Anti-Jewish Campaign Poster
Artifact Anti-Jewish Campaign Poster Although Hitler generally refrained from using antisemitic ... propaganda in his election campaign, the Nazis did use anti-Jewish attack language in areas where they felt
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2. Stephen Wise
Public Voices Stephen Wise Rabbi Stephen Wise was a prominent 20th century American Jewish leader ... democracy, Wise helped found the American Jewish Congress, a nationwide organization of Jewish leaders ... established to “defend Jewish interests at home and abroad.” In 1936, he founded the World ... Jewish Congress (WJC), headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland; he served as the WJC’s president from
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3. Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus One Couple, 50 Children
Americans Who Dared Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus One Couple, 50 Children In January 1939, the Jewish ... rescue 50 Jewish children. The Krauses, who were Jewish, made the dangerous journey to Nazi-occupied ... hoped that the kids would eventually reunite with their parents. Some of the Jewish children rescued by ... Kristallnacht attacks in Germany, the American Jewish fraternal organization Brith Sholom contacted the Krauses
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4. The American Friends Service Committee Organizing a Rescue Network
Quakers), was the largest non-Jewish American organization assisting refugees escaping Nazi persecution ... The AFSC worked in French internment camps, hid Jewish children, and assisted thousands of Jewish and ... non-Jewish refugees with immigration and resettlement to the United States. An American Friends ... this work came from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, which continued to support the
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5. The United States Committee for the Care of European Children Getting Children to Safety
’s chairwoman, USCOM brought more than 300 refugee children, most of them Jewish, from southern France, Spain ... were not Jewish, and some were traveling with or reuniting with parents, Martha Sharp’s efforts ... served as a model for future USCOM transports which would largely consist of Jewish refugee children. In ... American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee paid for the ship tickets with the assistance of the Hebrew
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6. Henry Morgenthau Jr.
’s secretary of the treasury and close friend, was the only Jewish member of the cabinet. Protective of his ... and antisemites focused on the fact that President Roosevelt had many Jewish advisors. Some even ... “Jewish” causes. Although he expressed his concern for European Jews privately, he did not endorse ... United States. Like many prominent Jewish figures, Morgenthau received letters from European Jews who
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7. Neighbors Neighbors
turned against their Jewish neighbors.
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8. Teachers Teachers
Timeline Teachers Teachers Some teachers targeted Jewish students in their classrooms. Others took
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9. Timeline
Jewish German boy living in Bremen, noticed only gradual changes in the first years after 1933. Fewer non ... -Jewish customers came to his father’s bike shop, his neighbors grew less friendly, and his friends ... in the Hitler Youth took a leading role in terrorizing their Jewish neighbors. Learn more in ... -Jewish actions during Kristallnacht. They arrested Jews on the orders of officials. After Nazi
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10. Herta Griffel
her Jewish elementary school class in Vienna to survive the Holocaust. Leaving Vienna Herta Griffel ... Jewish men endured forced labor daily. Beila tried to maintain the family’s grocery store but the ... safety. In November 1940, she began to plan, focusing her efforts on the German Jewish Children’s ... Herta’s identity. The German Jewish Children’s Aid was able to help children using a special
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11. Varian Fry Emergency Escape
witnessed an anti-Jewish riot in Berlin. In the New York Times, Fry described the scene: “I saw one ... university presidents, and artists, as well as a number of Jewish refugees, formed the Emergency Rescue ... Feuchtwanger in his home. Famed German Jewish novelist Lion Feuchtwanger while imprisoned in the Les Milles ... Lion Feuchtwanger Papers Collection, 1884-1958. Fry soon met German Jewish writer Franz Werfel, who
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12. Breckinridge Long
people who applied to immigrate to the United States—including Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution ... immigration easier, and resented any criticism of the State Department, particularly by Jewish organizations ... had annexed or invaded, were overwhelmed with people, many of them Jewish, requesting help with ... speech, Roosevelt warned that new immigrants—even Jewish refugees—might be forced to secretly
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13. Frances Perkins
Jewish refugees seeking to immigrate to the United States—often in opposition to the prevailing public ... fair way and worried that an influx of Jewish refugees would cause a rise in antisemitism in America ... and made it legal for foreign students to work. Perkins also worked with the German Jewish ... Children’s Aid organization to set up a corporate bond that allowed more than 400 Jewish children to come to
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14. Max and Fanny Valfer
persecution of the country’s Jewish minority was entering a new, even more vicious phase. A prosperous ... a sizable Jewish population. He was proud of the business he had created from nothing, telling his ... radically during the second half of 1938 when German authorities began registering Jewish businesses and ... Baden of Jews. Along with their Jewish neighbors, the Valfers were given two hours to leave their homes
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15. Eleanor Roosevelt
alleviating poverty in the United States and in aiding European refugees, most of whom were Jewish. In ... Children (USCOM), established as a result of this meeting, worked with Jewish, Unitarian, and Quaker aid ... including Jewish refugee children from southern France. In September 1940, Eleanor Roosevelt learned ... met nearly 1,000 refugees, most of them Jewish. They were the only refugees the US government
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16. Raymond Geist
his nearly ten years in Berlin, Geist turned himself into an indispensable intermediary between Jewish ... seeking to alleviate the lot of Germany’s half million Jews. He instructed his Jewish companions to ... “moderates” inside the Nazi regime to facilitate Jewish emigration in return for financial concessions ... charge of the “Jewish problem,” Karl Hasselbacher. In late 1938, Hasselbacher told Geist that
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17. Charles Coughlin
evidence of an international Jewish conspiracy to control the world—in multiple issues of Social ... with articles on “The Jewish Question,” and “The New Deal Propaganda Machine ... increasingly bold in their antisemitism. Some even attacked Jewish businesses in New York; press reports blamed
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18. Lois Gunden A Children’s Home in France
open a home for Spanish and Jewish refugee children. Gunden, a Mennonite, cared for and protected ... Jewish children who were released or smuggled out of French internment camps with the help of the ... allow French police to search Ville St. Christophe for Jewish children, thereby saving the
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19. Teacher Resources
the plight of the victims. Only rarely did individuals decide to help or rescue their Jewish neighbors ... persecution of their Jewish neighbors? Exhibition Video This video was originally created as an introduction
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20. Otto Frank
Institute for Jewish Research, New York. Courtesy of the Anne Frank Fonds, Basel, Switzerland. Page two ... of Otto Frank’s letter to Nathan Straus Jr. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York ... Jewish refugees coordinate their immigration paperwork. “Bad Luck” On June 11, 1941, only six ... all of whom were Jewish. Anne Frank, who had received a diary for her 13th birthday several weeks
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21. Dorothy Thompson
its wealth and trade.” In November 1938, Herschel Grynszpan, a German Jewish student whose ... burning synagogues, destroying Jewish homes and businesses, and arresting Jewish men. Thompson threw
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22. Martha and Waitstill Sharp Two Rescue Missions
gathered Jewish refugees that the offices were not American territory, and the Unitarians were not an ... directly helped escape was the German Jewish novelist Lion Feuchtwanger. Waitstill Sharp himself sailed
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23. Kurt Maier
from a Jewish boarding school in Freiburg, 25 miles away. As they waited for the boys to return, they ... Jewish Heritage/Troper collection. Like most of the other prisoners, the Maier family saw only one ... visas would officially become worthless pieces of paper once again. Fortunately, an American Jewish
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24. Anthony Acevedo
to be “undesirable.” The Nazis asked Jewish American soldiers to identify themselves and ... also singled out men they believed to be Jewish. They also selected men of other backgrounds, including
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25. Hiram Bingham IV
were using “blackmail” tactics to get rid of their unwanted Jewish population. The ... him to establish contacts with the Jewish relief agency HIAS-HICEM and set up a system for the