Displaying: 1 11 of 11 matches for “jews laws”
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1. Timeline
“German blood.” The laws defined Jews as a race and stripped them of German citizenship. They also ... limited Jews’ rights and marked them for discrimination and persecution. The Nuremberg laws ... Kristallnacht, the Nazi regime issued laws forcing Jews to turn their businesses and assets over to non-Jews ... Jews were barred from attending public schools in Germany. Other laws forbade them from owning or
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2. Raymond Geist
Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. He became convinced that Nazi officials were pursuing a goal of ... “annihilation of the Jews,” but his warnings were largely ignored in Washington. Raymond Geist, leaving the ... savior by German Jews desperate to flee the country, it was acting consul-general Raymond Geist. During ... seeking to alleviate the lot of Germany’s half million Jews. He instructed his Jewish companions to
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3. Frances Perkins
was in charge of the US entry ports. However, the 1924 US immigration law had granted State Department ... assist German Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. She met formidable opposition from officials in the State ... immigrants, and particularly towards Jews.” While trying to figure out a way to assist immigrants ... Perkins and her staff realized that an existing law gave her the power, as secretary of labor, to accept a
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4. Marianne Winter Pen Pals
the Anschluss), Austrian Jews were subjected to the same antisemitic laws as Germany’s Jews. Not ... In Danger Marianne Winter Pen Pals After Nazi Germany annexed Austria, Jews living there, like ... sixteen-year-old Marianne Winter and her family, quickly became subject to new antisemitic laws. Many
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5. Breckinridge Long
wealthy family. He practiced law, planning for a career in politics. He served as a third assistant ... —mostly Jews—had joined a waiting list for an American immigration visa. At the time, immigration ... Nazi rule (1933–1945) the German quota was not filled, and the laws governing the visa process ... European Jews. Some Americans wrote passionate letters and telegrams to the State Department expressing
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6. Varian Fry Emergency Escape
concerned about the Nazi regime’s persecution of Jews and other victims. After Germany invaded France ... writers and artists, Jews and non-Jews, were likely to be targeted. Thirty-two-year-old Varian Fry ... willingness to break the law angered both the US State Department and officials in Vichy France. After 13 ... ,” a title granted by Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial to the Holocaust, to non-Jews who risked
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7. Stephen Wise
for a change in US immigration laws to allow more European Jews to flee to the United States from the ... Hitler’s appointment as chancellor of Germany and the Nazi regime’s persecution of German Jews ... an immediate end to both the physical attacks and the discriminatory measures against German Jews ... treatment of German Jews, March 27, 1933. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National
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8. Hiram Bingham IV
on his own initiative, and at his own expense, to investigate the situation of thousands of Jews ... American law.” Like his colleagues, Bingham had to work within the constraints of an immigration ... onward travel of 6,504 Jews deported from Germany to France. The State Department argued that the Germans ... immigrants” to the United States in Gurs alone. While the United States had no asylum or refugee laws
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9. The American Friends Service Committee Organizing a Rescue Network
confronted with Nazi persecution of Jews, took action. The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) had been ... Nuremberg Laws but who did not consider themselves Jewish by religion) and those in mixed marriages between ... Jews and non-Jews. One of those refugees was Tom Doeppner, an 18-year-old who escaped from Germany into
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10. Herta Griffel
Austria (an event known as the Anschluss), subjecting Austrian Jews like Beila and Wolf Griffel and their ... young daughter Herta to antisemitic laws that put both their property and their lives at risk. After ... Nazi regime soon forced Jews like the Griffels to close their businesses. In November 1939, Wolf died
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11. Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus One Couple, 50 Children
talk with friends about ways they might help European Jews. In January 1939, two months after the ... waiting lists for US immigration visas. The United States immigration laws only allowed 27,370 German ... of Jews that was not readily available to every American. Yet they devised a plan, gathered paperwork