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Displaying: 226 – 250 of 1,022 matches for “Holocaust Encyclopedia: Warsaw”
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226. 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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227. 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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228. Sachsenhausen: Key Dates
prisoners from the Pawiak prison in Warsaw to Sachsenhausen ... . August 1944In response to the Warsaw uprising, German
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229. 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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230. Sara Rachela Plagier
Warsaw. They moved all their belongings ahead to Warsaw and they themselves were supposed to travel
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231. 1940: Key Dates
the Warsaw ghetto in the Generalgouvernement to be sealed. It ... area. At times, before the deportations of July 1942 begin, the actual population in Warsaw ghetto
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232. World War II in Europe
along the border and advance on Warsaw in a massive encirclement. Britain and France, standing by their ... guarantee of Poland's border, declare war on Germany on September 3, 1939. Warsaw surrenders to the Germans ... pushed back nearly to Warsaw by the end of July 1944. In August and September 1944, Germany's remaining
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233. Featured Artifact: Model of the Lodz Ghetto
southwest of Warsaw, Poland. The Jews of Lodz formed the second largest Jewish ... community in prewar Poland, after Warsaw. On the eve of the war there were 223,000 Jews in Lodz out of a ... artifact to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990. The model was donated to the Museum in ... their immediate and extended families in the Holocaust. After the war, Leon found out that his mother
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234. Deportations to Killing Centers
German officials transported the Jews from the Warsaw and Radom districts ... and Czech Jews to the Warsaw ghetto and to various locations in Lublin ... in Sobibor. German Jewish residents of the Lodz and Warsaw ghettos were later deported with Polish
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235. Lodz
southwest of Warsaw, Poland. The Jews of Lodz formed the second largest Jewish community in prewar Poland ... after Warsaw. German troops occupied Lodz on September 8, 1939
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236. Sachsenhausen
Sachsenhausen from the Pawiak prison in Warsaw. The prisoners included many juveniles, Catholic priests, army ... uprising in Warsaw, the German authorities expelled most of the Polish population from the city. The
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237. Non-Jewish Resistance
Warsaw in anticipation of an imminent Soviet attack across the Vistula into the center of the city ... Though the Soviets did not move forward, the Home Army fought for two months in the ruins of Warsaw
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238. Rescue in Denmark
Nor did they do anything to help Jews and other victims of Nazi policies. Throughout the Holocaust ... survived the Holocaust, largely because Danish officials pressured the Germans with their concerns for the ... Jews would have survived the Holocaust in Denmark. There are numerous stories of brave ... the ghetto in Warsaw with the assistance of non-Jewish Poles
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239. Jan Karski
but managed to escape. From there, Karski made his way to Warsaw, where he joined the Polish ... Holocaust Karski was known to have an exceptional ... . In late 1942, Karski was smuggled in and out of the Warsaw ghetto and ... memory of the Holocaust, Karski worked
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240. 1944: Key Dates
the center of Warsaw, Poland. June 23With the permission of the ... the Germans in an effort to play a role in the liberation of Warsaw. August
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241. Life in the Ghettos
Small children in the Warsaw ghetto sometimes helped smuggle food to their families and friends by ... small area of the city. The Jews of Lodz formed, after Warsaw, the second largest Jewish community in
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242. World War II: In Depth
to the Vistula River across from Warsaw by August 1, 1944. In early August, Soviet troops, having ... against the Germans to liberate Warsaw and Slovakia from German rule; the Germans were able to quell both ... the Soviets resumed the offensive, liberating Warsaw and western Poland. In December the Soviets had
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243. The "We Will Never Die" Pageant
Bowl performance, Ben Hecht, inspired by news of the Warsaw Ghetto ... Uprising, added a new section to the pageant called “The Battle of Warsaw.” Music for this sequence was
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244. Elie Wiesel Timeline and World Events: 1928–1951
. 1943Jews in the Warsaw ghetto rise up against their oppressors. By ... Soviet forces begin a massive offensive in Belarus and advance to the outskirts of Warsaw in six weeks ... United States. On December 9, 1948, in the shadow of the Holocaust, the United Nations approves
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245. Resistance in the Smaller Ghettos of Eastern Europe
Warsaw ghetto uprising of April 1943 is often viewed as the classic example of Jewish armed ... resistance to Nazi oppression during the Holocaust. Indeed, most studies of Jewish resistance have focused on ... events in the larger ghettos such as Warsaw
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246. The Order Police
interested in the history of World War II and the Holocaust are familiar with ... SS. While the Order Police is less known, they played a significant role in the Holocaust. They often ... Battalion 61 began guard duty at the Warsaw ghetto ... they aided were those from the Warsaw ghetto, Berlin, and
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247. 1942: Key Dates
auxiliaries, deport approximately 265,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the ... assisted by auxiliaries, deport approximately 265,000 Jews from the Warsaw
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248. Moses Beckelman
perished during a Warsaw ghetto action in January 1943. Beckelman was
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249. Stanisławów
Historycznego 59 (1966), pp. 63-91; Joachim Nachbar, Endure, Defy and Remember. Memoir of a Holocaust ... Studies 26 (1997), pp. 239-264. In Pinkas Hakehillot Polin: Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities ... Stanisławów. There are many survivor testimonies in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and in ... in Warsaw, the Archive of New Documents (AAN) in Warsaw and documents from Stanisławów itself in the
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250. Jeff Gradow
Jeff Gradow was born in 1925 in a small town near Warsaw. When
