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Displaying: 201 – 225 of 1,022 matches for “Holocaust Encyclopedia: Warsaw”
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201. Julien Bryan
scenes of Jewish life in Warsaw and Krakow and brought him close to the Polish people in cities and on ... summer, found his way to Warsaw just as all foreign reporters, diplomats, and Polish government officials ... events. One of the few foreign photographers left in the city, he risked his life to record Warsaw ... of Warsaw, Stefan Starzynski, who provided him with a car, guide, interpreter, and permit to
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202. Trawniki: Key Dates
,500 workers be transferred from the Warsaw ghetto to Trawniki. Globocnik names ... . February 16, 1943Transports begin to leave the Warsaw ghetto for Trawniki ... . April 19, 1943SS and police units under command of the SS and Police Leader in Warsaw ... including a battalion of Trawniki-trained guards, seal off the Warsaw ghetto, intending to forcibly remove
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203. Yitzhak Gitterman
Gitterman left Warsaw for Vilna, where he rapidly set up operations to aid the ... Warsaw in April 1940. Gitterman continued his activities in support of Jewish self-help in Warsaw ... (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ZOB) in the Warsaw ghetto. Yitzhak Gitterman was killed on January 18 ... from the Warsaw ghetto.
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204. Estelle Laughlin
is really noteworthy that the Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw ghetto fought longer than it ... crowded like sardines. Biography Estelle (Wakszlak) Laughlin was born in Warsaw, Poland ... September 1, 1939. The siege on Warsaw began a week after German forces ... invaded Poland. On September 27, a ceasefire was called, and soon after, German forces entered Warsaw
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205. Siege (1940)
really happening. I was impressed by Warsaw's will to survive." —Julien Bryan in Siege ... -minute film Siege records the horror and confusion of Warsaw during the German attack. Through ... ended in the capitulation of Warsaw and the ... fortifications. As the Polish soldiers retreated to the east, German troops encircled and laid siege to Warsaw
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206. Rescue
Rescue of Jews during the Holocaust presented a host of difficulties ... positions during the Warsaw ghetto uprising in April 1943, the Polish ... of the deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka ... killing center in late July 1942 until the German occupiers leveled Warsaw in the autumn of 1944 after
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207. Treblinka: Key Dates
for the district of Warsaw, the SS establish a labor camp not far from Malkinia, a village located ... about 50 miles northeast of Warsaw in the northern region of the Generalgouvernement ... operations. With the arrival of the first transports of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto, SS and police officials ... 265,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka II. The camp
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208. Ghettos in Occupied Poland
territories. The largest ghetto was in Warsaw, the Polish capital, where almost half a million Jews were ... stay inside their apartments. In the Polish cities of Lodz and Warsaw, trolley lines ran through ... sneer at the ghetto prisoners. Key Dates October 12, 1940Warsaw Jews ... ordered into a ghettoThe Germans announce the establishment of a ghetto in Warsaw. All
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209. Jewish Resistance
. In April-May 1943, Jews in the Warsaw ghetto ... Warsaw ghetto uprising, individual Jewish resisters continued to hide in the ruins of the ghetto, which ... case of the Oneg Shabbat archive in Warsaw that would tell the story of the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto
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210. 1943: Key Dates
Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center, and shoot another nearly ... . April 19-May 16In the Warsaw ghetto uprising, Jewish ... office will send approximately 42,000 surviving Warsaw ghetto residents to Lublin/Majdanek concentration ... ghetto and join partisan groups in the forests around Warsaw. The Warsaw ghetto uprising is the first
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211. Trawniki
Warsaw (three times), Czestochowa, Lublin, Lvov, Radom ... all movable equipment and civilian personnel from the Warsaw ghetto to Trawniki. It named Streibel ... leave the Warsaw ghetto for Trawniki. Despite threats to shoot those who ignored SS incentives, Schultz ... Losing patience, the SS decided to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto. At 3:00 a.m. on the morning of April 19
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212. Joseph Greenblatt
Joseph Greenblatt was born in Warsaw in 1915. He learned about resistance from his father, an ... prisoners. Joe returned to Warsaw, only to find the Jewish population ... imprisoned the Jews of Warsaw were far from passive; underground resistance units had already begun to form
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213. Deportations
killed upon arrival in the camps. July 22, 1942Warsaw Jews deported to Treblinka ... the Warsaw ghetto: more than 250,000 of them are deported to the Treblinka killing center. Deportees ... are forced to the Umschlagplatz (deportation point), which is connected to the Warsaw
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214. Writers and Poets in the Ghettos
partisans and recorded their statements. Warsaw Writers and poets expressed artistic and ... spiritual resistance. In the Warsaw ghetto, Itzhak ... killed. The historian Emanuel Ringelblum founded the Warsaw ghetto ... 's clandestine archive Oneg Shabbat, where items documenting life in the Warsaw ghetto were stored. A number of
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215. Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos
annihilation. The best known of these archives was that of the Warsaw ... rubble of the Warsaw ghetto after the war. The papers found inside have provided valuable documentation ... Mordechai Tenenbaum, who had come to Bialystok from Warsaw in November 1942 to organize the resistance ... Lodz ghetto, but unlike the Warsaw and Bialystok archives, it was not entirely clandestine and
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216. Ghettos
Warsaw ghetto. In Warsaw, more than 400,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles. Other ... these was the Warsaw ghetto uprising in spring 1943. There were also
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217. Vittel
deportations from the Warsaw ghetto, the German authorities called on Jewish ghetto residents with foreign ... Itzhak Katzenelson, who had arrived at Vittel from Warsaw in May 1943. While at Vittel, he wrote the ... published eyewitness account in English of life in the Warsaw ghetto and the deportation of its inhabitants
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218. Lublin/Majdanek Concentration Camp: Conditions
the summer of 1942 deportations from the Warsaw ghetto to the ... destroyed the Warsaw ghetto in spring 1943, SS and police officials deported between 18,000 and 22 ... equipment of some of the Warsaw ghetto workshops. The SS intended that these prisoners would work for the ... of the Warsaw ghetto were killed upon arrival at Majdanek. As many as 3,000 may eventually have been
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219. Emanuel Ringelblum and the Creation of the Oneg Shabbat Archive
of Ukraine) on November 21, 1900. He received his doctorate in history at the University of Warsaw in ... 1927. In Warsaw, he met his wife, Yehudis Herman. They had a son named Uri in 1930. From a young ... foreshadowed his prolific work in the Warsaw ghetto ... profoundly impacted him and would prepare him for his work in Warsaw during the war. The Outbreak of
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220. The Oneg Shabbat Archive
archive itself—were deported from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka in the summer of 1942. During those days ... On April 18, 1943, just one day before the start of the Warsaw ghetto ... escaped the ghetto and went into hiding in the non-Jewish area of Warsaw. During Passover of that year, he ... Warsaw in particular, who sought to continue life in any way possible under Nazi occupation. Alongside
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221. Jewish Councils (Judenraete)
killed by the Nazis for his refusal. In Warsaw, rather than aid in the roundup of Jews, Jewish council ... the Jewish councils of collaboration with the Nazis (in Warsaw, the
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222. Ben Kamm
18-year-old Ben Kamm had a comfortable life surrounded by family and friends in Warsaw, Poland ... violence did not deter Ben, but Ben returned to Warsaw to try and help his family. In the ghettos, he
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223. Sachsenhausen: Key Dates
prisoners from the Pawiak prison in Warsaw to Sachsenhausen ... . August 1944In response to the Warsaw uprising, German
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224. Benjamin Meed
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Ben Meed (1918-2006) was in business ... Warsaw ghetto and working as a slave laborer. Recruited into the underground by his future wife ... would endure for decades. The Meeds helped plan the 1981 World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust ... American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors to prepare for a 1983 gathering in Washington, DC, which
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225. Sara Rachela Plagier
Warsaw. They moved all their belongings ahead to Warsaw and they themselves were supposed to travel
