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251. 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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252. 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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253. 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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254. 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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255. 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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256. 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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257. 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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258. 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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259. Moses Beckelman
perished during a Warsaw ghetto action in January 1943. Beckelman was
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260. 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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261. 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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262. 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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263. 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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264. Jeff Gradow
Jeff Gradow was born in 1925 in a small town near Warsaw. When
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265. Der ewige Jude
Jews shot in the Warsaw and Lodz ghettos by propaganda company crews attached to the German military
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266. Operation "Harvest Festival"
resistance in the ghettos of Warsaw and Bialystok ... Holocaust.
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267. Sam Lato
Sam Lato was born in the town of Baranovichi, Poland, on February 24, 1925. East of Warsaw
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268. Deceiving the Public
resistance in Warsaw Propaganda was used as an important ... and hundreds of thousands of Jews,” Yitzhak Zuckerman, a leader of the Jewish resistance in Warsaw
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269. Shalom Yoran
Shalom Yoran was born in 1925 in Warsaw, Poland. When Shalom was 15 years old, his family fled
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270. Stutthof
were mainly non-Jewish Poles. There were also Polish Jews from Warsaw and
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271. Ona Simaite, Joop Westerweel, Irena Sendler
several hundred Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto. Hiding them in
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272. Theresienstadt
the ghettos of Riga, Warsaw
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273. Polish Victims
violent mass uprising against the Germans in Warsaw in August 1944. The rebellion lasted two months but
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274. Auschwitz: Key Dates
troops take Warsaw and advance rapidly on Krakow and Oswiecim. January 17–27
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275. Leni Riefenstahl
prevent her from filming Hitler's triumphal parade into Warsaw just weeks
