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Displaying: 226 – 250 of 1,019 matches for “Holocaust Encyclopedia: Warsaw”
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226. Sara Rachela Plagier
Warsaw. They moved all their belongings ahead to Warsaw and they themselves were supposed to travel
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227. 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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228. World War II Dates and Timeline
Britain. September 27–29, 1939 Warsaw surrenders on September 27. Germany and ... westward to the Vistula River toward Warsaw in central Poland by August 1. July 25, 1944 ... resistance) rises up against the Germans in an effort to liberate Warsaw before the arrival of Soviet troops ... surrender of the remnants of the Home Army forces fighting in Warsaw. August 15, 1944
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229. Invasion of Poland, Fall 1939
the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack ... shelling and bombing, Warsaw officially surrendered to the Germans on September 28, 1939. In ... German-occupied Poland—including the cities of Warsaw, Krakow (Kraków
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230. 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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231. 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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232. 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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233. 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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234. 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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235. Jewish Youth Movements in Wartime Poland: From Minority to Leadership
official Polish Jewish leadership either fled Warsaw and the other major cities of Poland for the Soviet ... This was the case among the youth movement leadership of Warsaw. Many of ... Warsaw were motivated by a sense of responsibility as local leaders, not only to their young ... ’s return from Vilna to Warsaw in late 1941. Even so, many in the youth movements were highly critical of
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236. 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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237. 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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238. 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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239. 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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240. 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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241. 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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242. 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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243. 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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244. Moses Beckelman
perished during a Warsaw ghetto action in January 1943. Beckelman was
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245. 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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246. 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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247. 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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248. 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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249. Der ewige Jude
Jews shot in the Warsaw and Lodz ghettos by propaganda company crews attached to the German military
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250. Operation "Harvest Festival"
resistance in the ghettos of Warsaw and Bialystok ... Holocaust.
