Displaying: 126 150 of 553 matches for “JEWISH BRIGADE GROUP”
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126. Prayer book for Passover days 1 and 2 owned by a British soldier and German Jewish emigre
mission to save Jewish children managed by Bloomsbury House, a group of British Jewish aid societies ... The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish ... fellow German, Jewish emigrant, Ingeborg Sommer, and they had two sons.
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127. Luftwaffe paratrooper badge with a yellow eagle acquired by a German Jewish refugee in the British army
Jewish Brigade during the war. Anita, age 67, died in January 1991. Manfred, age 88, died on September 12 ... Luftwaffe (German Air Force) paratrooper badge, acquired by Manfred Gans, a German Jewish refugee
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128. Belgium, 10 francs or 2 belga note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee in the British army
Jewish Brigade during the war. Anita, age 67, died in January 1991. Manfred, age 88, died on September 12 ... Bank note, valued at 10 francs, acquired by Manfred Gans, a German-Jewish refugee who served as a
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129. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee in the British army
Jewish Brigade during the war. Anita, age 67, died in January 1991. Manfred, age 88, died on September 12 ... Manfred Gans, a German Jewish refugee who served as a Marine Commando for the British Army from May 1944
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130. Drawing by Alexander Bogen of a partisan leaning against a tree with his hands in his pockets
Jewish partisan - Wollak ... sabotage and other actions against the occupying German military. He helped lead the all-Jewish Nekama ... (Revenge) partisan brigade, and reentered the Vilna ghetto to help underground fighters escape as it was ... His father was from a secular Jewish background; his mother was the daughter of Rabbi Tuvia Lobitzki
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131. Bible and Talmud book returned to a family after being confiscated during the war
mission to save Jewish children managed by Bloomsbury House, a group of British Jewish aid societies ... The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish ... fellow German, Jewish emigrant, Ingeborg Sommer, and they had two sons. ... ). Sebald was a teacher and musician, and in Nürnberg, he taught Jewish studies at a Jewish school, also
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132. Ben Kamm
's brigade, they freed 1,000 Jews from a forced-labor camp. A group of Jewish soldiers, who escaped a POW ... In 1940, Ben and his family were relocated to the cramped quarters of the Jewish ... group of partisans fighting the Nazis. They found the partisan commander Grzezor Korczynski, a former ... group of more than 1,600 fighters led by General Fyodorov. He was trained to place mines under train
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133. Leah Johnson
were sitting under a tree when a group of young Jewish partisan men found them. One of the men was ... Velvel “Wolf” Yanson, a Jewish partisan from another brigade. He helped the family return to the Bielski ... their group. In the letter, Tuvia encouraged the family to join them ... live.” Leah and her family joined the Bielski Brigade that night. Leah took on the duties of the
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134. The Aftermath of the Holocaust: Effects on Survivors
. The Jewish Brigade Group (a Palestinian Jewish unit of the British army ... Jewish Brigade Group created the Brihah (Hebrew for "flight" or ... human ashes—testimony to Nazi mass murder. Soldiers also found thousands of Jewish and non-Jewish ... daunting. After liberation, many Jewish survivors feared to return to
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135. Bernard Druskin
occupation of Vilna, the Druskin family was sent to live in the Jewish ... ghetto. Bernard became a Jewish partisan after escaping from the ... Jewish ghetto in 1940, which he did with the help of a compassionate Nazi soldier who showed him how and ... Bernard worked under the Markov brigade and with Commander Jurgis, head of the Lithuanian Brigade. He
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136. Benjamin Levin
. Benjamin and his group joined a brigade of partisan fighters, Jews, Russians, Poles, and Lithuanians, under ... systematically combed through Jewish neighborhoods, grabbing young men from their homes, executing them and ... with a group of other young Jews, and went to the woods to join his brother. Unfortunately, his brother ... them. Under the Kremlin’s complicated hierarchy for managing resistance campaigns, the group was
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137. Charles Bedzow
Holocaust in the Bielski group—a rare exception to the typical Jewish partisan’s story. To get to the ... resistance in the Bielski Brigade. He was accompanied by his mother Chasia ... only 17 when he became a Bielski partisan. His missions involved collecting supplies for the group ... to the brigade from a nearby ghetto, she was caught and sent to the
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138. Holocaust Survivors and the Establishment of the State of Israel (May 14, 1948)
camps. From there, the Jewish Brigade Group led a network of ... executed. The Jewish Brigade ... September 1944. It included more than 5,000 Jewish volunteers from Mandatory Palestine. The Jewish Brigade ... exclusion and persecution led many Jews to conclude that the only future for Jewish communal life was the
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139. Faye Schulman
. During a partisan raid, Faye fled to the forests and joined the Molotava Brigade, a partisan group made ... antisemitism in the group. In another image, Schulman and three young Jewish men smile joyously after an ... they were desperate for anyone who knew anything about medicine. Faye served the group as a nurse from ... funeral scene where two Jewish partisans are being buried alongside Russian partisans, despite the intense
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140. The Bielski Partisans
groups joined the Bielski group. Jewish partisans serving in Soviet partisan organizations also fell in ... creation of a mobile family “camp”—in effect, a Jewish community in the forest. The group organized the ... detachments but also with Jewish groups in the region. After the War ... Bielski Establish a Partisan Group After the Germans killed their parents and two brothers in the
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141. Simon Trakinski
group escaped, but were forced to leave their families behind. They initially fought with the Jewish ... Markov Brigade that was engaged in a struggle against rival partisan groups over control of the territory ... ). But when Markov’s camp was blockaded by the Germans, Simon was forced to escape and join another group ... group was especially active along the Berlin-Moscow supply route. As the war continued, Simon
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142. Leon Bakst
massacre of Jewish men. Months later Leon and his older brother, along with 200 other young people ... groups living in the nearby forests, twenty of the youngsters decided to risk escape and join them. The ... surroundings, making it easier for their group to travel at night. The rifles they stole from the Germans also ... ensured that the group was fed along the way. When they finally reached the Naliboki forest, the group
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143. Silvio Ortona
group of Jewish families had been living in his town for generations, and he remembers being very ... industrial center, Biella was the home of one of the very first Garibaldi partisan brigades, the Fratelli ... they began conducting raids and sabotage missions. Silvio’s group established Radio Liberta, an
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144. Oral history interview with David Gineo and Menashe Hauser
words “chayal” (soldier) and “Chatevvah yehodet lohemet” (Jewish Brigade Group); the October 1944 act ... Lt. Colonel David Gineo discusses fighting for the British under the flag of the Jewish brigade ... the emblem of Jewish Palestine which brigade members always wore; the brigade’s patches containing the ... passed by the British government establishing the Jewish Brigade; how Captain Menashe Hauser brought the
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145. Kovno
overcoat. The Kovno ghetto had several Jewish resistance groups. The resistance acquired arms ... Lithuania, was the country's capital and largest city. In 1939, it had a Jewish population of approximately ... . Kovno was also a center of Jewish learning. The yeshiva in Slobodka, an impoverished district of the ... city, was one of Europe's most prestigious institutions of higher Jewish learning. Kovno had a rich and
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146. Chaim Yelin
consolidation of Zionist, who were committed to Jewish self-defense, and Communists into one group called "The ... Meir helped run the library and participated in discussions about Jewish and secular literature and ... journals. He represented Lithuania in 1937 at an international conference in Paris on Jewish culture ... mainly during 1941. He developed ironic and semi-humorous vignettes about work brigades, German plunder
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147. Brihah
the Jewish Brigade of the British army assumed control of the operation ... nothing to do with the Jewish authorities in Palestine. Members of the Zionist organizations smuggled ... along with operatives from the Hagana (the Jewish clandestine army in Palestine) who hoped to ... smuggle as many displaced persons as possible into Palestine through Italy. The American Jewish
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148. Cinecittà Displaced Persons Camp
persons (DPs) in Italy, and as a DP camp that housed 680 Jewish refugees in 1947. The camp was founded by ... that year, the camp reached a capacity of 1,800 Jewish and non-Jewish DPs ... The executive staff of the Joint (The American Jewish Joint Distribution ... Merkaz ha-Plitim) also convened there and published the chief Jewish DP newspaper of Italy
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149. Mauthausen
the International Brigades, most of them Communists of various nationalities, who had fought the ... between August 1938 and May 1945. At least 95,000 died there. More than 14,000 were Jewish ... registered: more than 37,000 non-Jewish Poles nearly 23,000 Soviet civilians ... ." Jewish Prisoners Before May 1944, the SS incarcerated relatively few Jews at Mauthausen. The
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150. Zdziecioł (Zhetel)
“Dubner Maggid”) and Israel Meir ha-Kohen (the “Hafetz Hayyim”). In 1897 the Jewish population was 3 ... percent). Many Jewish refugees arrived from western and central Poland in 1939–1941 after the beginning of ... World War II, so that by the time of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Jewish ... villages and with a group of former Red Army soldiers who were organizing a partisan force in the area. In