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76. 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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77. 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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78. 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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79. 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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80. 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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81. Sachsenhausen: Key Dates
prisoners from the Pawiak prison in Warsaw to Sachsenhausen ... . August 1944In response to the Warsaw uprising, German
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82. 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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83. Sara Rachela Plagier
Warsaw. They moved all their belongings ahead to Warsaw and they themselves were supposed to travel
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84. 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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85. German Administration of Poland
Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the ... Krakow, Warsaw, Radom, and Lublin
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86. 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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87. 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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88. 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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89. 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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90. 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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91. 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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92. 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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93. 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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94. 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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95. 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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96. 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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97. 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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98. 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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99. 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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100. 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
