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Displaying: 301 – 325 of 1,045 matches for “Holocaust Encyclopedia: Warsaw”
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301. Mir
the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941–44 (New York: St ... and also an early Rufeisen statement at the Jewish Historical Institute (AYIH) in Warsaw. Contemporary
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302. Flight and Rescue
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000. Learn more about their stories. War and ... of Warsaw. Throngs are leaving their homes on a ... European yeshiva to survive the Holocaust nearly intact. At war's end in August 1945, this distinction in ... treatment became fully apparent to the refugees as they learned about the Holocaust and mourned the tragic
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303. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
witnessed in the Nazi-established Warsaw ghetto. Roosevelt again did not commit to any specific action other
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304. Tattoos and Numbers: The System of Identifying Prisoners at Auschwitz
to Auschwitz after the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 were not tattooed. Some Jewish prisoners who were held
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305. International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg
camps. The Holocaust was not the main focus of the trial, but considerable evidence was presented about ... Warsaw ghetto, and the estimate of six million Jewish victims
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306. Arie Wilner
Arie Wilner, a founder of the Warsaw ghetto's Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB). He was killed ... in the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Warsaw, Poland, before 1943.
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307. Siege
His ten-minute film Siege records the horror and confusion of Warsaw during the ... Warsaw and the occupation of Poland. During the early stages of the ... fortifications. As the Polish soldiers retreated to the east, German troops encircled and laid siege to Warsaw.
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308. Israel Kanal
of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) in Warsaw. He fought in the ... Warsaw ghetto uprising. Kutno, Poland, ca. 1939.
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309. Juergen Stroop
Juergen Stroop (third from left), SS commander who crushed the Warsaw ... ghetto uprising. Warsaw, Poland, between April 19 and May 16, 1943.
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310. Playbill
performance featuring Warsaw Jewish actress Raya Zomina, fierce fighting continued in the Warsaw ghetto ... about the Holocaust reached the Jewish refugees in Shanghai, but they did not receive reliable news or
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311. Abraham Lewent
Warsaw. His grandfather owned a clothing factory and retail store, which his father managed. Abraham ... 's family lived in a Jewish section of Warsaw and he attended a Jewish school. Warsaw's Jewish community was ... After the bombardment of Warsaw began on September 8, 1939, Abraham's family had little to eat. The ... Relief came when the capital surrendered. 1940-44: By April 1943 Abraham was in the Warsaw ghetto
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312. Janina Prot
old, her parents divorced; Janina left Warsaw and went to live with her father near the Polish town of ... Radom, while her brother Tomas remained in Warsaw with his mother. Janina, or Jana as she was ... affectionately known, loved to read. 1933-39: When Jana was 12 she moved back to Warsaw to attend ... Warsaw. Thinking it might be safer downtown, they rushed to stay at her aunt's apartment. But on
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313. Fela Perznianko
Vistula River near Warsaw. Her father was a respected attorney. As a young woman, Fela worked as a hat ... designer in Warsaw, until she married Moshe Galek when she was in her late ... and Moshe raised four daughters. 1933-39: In 1936 the Galeks moved to Warsaw, attracted by the ... she was hesitant to begin a new life someplace else. Warsaw fell to the Germans on September 28, 1939
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314. Rachela Rottenberg
located some 60 miles south of Warsaw. One-quarter of the city's 100,000 prewar population was Jewish ... Warsaw. They got separated along the way. Rachela and her mother made it to Warsaw just before the city ... was surrounded. After Warsaw surrendered on September 28, they returned to German-occupied Radom ... camp in Radom was moved in 1943, they managed to escape. They went to Warsaw, where Rachela's cousin
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315. Shmuel David Bursztyn
city of Warsaw. Shmuel owned and operated a bakery on Zamenhofa Street. In 1920 the Bursztyns and their ... his business and was working for the Kagan Bakery, one of Warsaw's largest kosher bakeries. Germany ... weeks, Warsaw fell to the Germans on September 28. 1940-42: When the ... Warsaw ghetto was set up by the Germans in November 1940, the Bursztyn's apartment ended up within
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316. Odon Jerzy Wos
Odon was the third of four children born to Roman Catholic parents in Warsaw, Poland's capital ... For four weeks they bombed Warsaw; there were corpses and blood ... everywhere. On September 29 Warsaw surrendered. 1940-44: At 16, Odon joined the Polish underground ... [Armia Krajowa], and trained for combat and sabotage. On August 1, 1944, the Warsaw uprising began. He
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317. Mieczyslaw (Marek) Madejski
's capital of Warsaw. His father was a real estate developer and his mother was a housewife. Mieczyslaw, or ... Poland on September 1, 1939. During the siege of Warsaw that month Mieczyslaw delivered supplies and ... Germans in Warsaw in open combat [Warsaw Polish Uprising]. On the fifth day ... in Warsaw on September 20, 1944. He escaped several days later from a camp at Pruszkow and went into
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318. Hela Los
One of nine children, Hela grew up in the Polish capital of Warsaw. Her father was an art and ... Miedzeszyn, located a short train ride's distance from Warsaw. 1933-39: Hela and her family were still ... at their vacation home when the Germans entered Warsaw on September 28, 1939. As soon as it became ... possible, they returned to Warsaw by foot, only to find that their house had been partially destroyed. That
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319. Jozef Wilk
bombing Warsaw, the Polish capital, but Jozef was too young to join the army. The Germans reached Rzeszow ... on Sunday, September 10. After that, Jozef made his way to Warsaw ... where he joined his two older sisters. 1940-43: In Warsaw Jozef became a sapper in a special unit ... Warsaw ghetto uprising, his unit was ordered to blow open part of Warsaw's ghetto wall so Jews could
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320. Edith Goldman Bielawski
-1930s, the Goldmans moved to Warsaw where Edith's father opened a down feather factory. On September 1 ... 1939, the Germans invaded Warsaw; three weeks later Warsaw fell. 1940-44: Edith and her family ... were among those forced into the Warsaw ghetto in November 1940. The next
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321. Photograph from the Stroop Report
Photograph from SS General Juergen Stroop's report showing the Warsaw ... commander of German forces that suppressed the Warsaw ghetto uprising, compiled an album of photographs and ... album shows a column of Jews being transported out of the ghetto for deportation. Warsaw, Poland, April
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322. Zivia Lubetkin
Warsaw ghetto uprising. Poland, date uncertain.
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323. Sylvia Winawer
apartment in the center of Warsaw. Sylvia's mother collected art. 1933-39: Sylvia attended a private ... invaded Poland and reached Warsaw in September 1939. 1940-44: In October 1940 the Germans ... forced Sylvia's family to move to the Warsaw ghetto. In the ghetto she gave ... deported from the ghetto in 1942. Sylvia and her parents escaped from the Warsaw ghetto and survived
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324. Zofia Yamaika
Zofia was raised in a well-to-do, prominent Hasidic Jewish family in Warsaw. Uneasy with the ... Europe. 1933-39: When Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 28, 1939, Zofia was 14 years ... club, which printed antifascist posters and leaflets and distributed them throughout Warsaw. The work ... Warsaw. The ghetto was sealed in November 1940. Through Spartacus, Zofia trained with a pistol smuggled
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325. Ethel Stern
Ethel was born to a Jewish family living in Warsaw. When she was 9, her family moved to the town ... of Mogielnica, about 40 miles southwest of Warsaw. Ethel's father spent much of his time studying ... birth to a baby boy in January 1940 in Warsaw. By November, the Jews in ... Warsaw were confined to a ghetto. Ethel's husband traded gold pieces for food and goods. When mass
