Displaying: 151 175 of 553 matches for “JEWISH BRIGADE GROUP”
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151. Mayer List
number of other Jewish emigres, Mayer joined the armed French resistance group, Franc-Tireurs et ... Mayer was born into a Jewish family in a village near Warsaw. His family was active there in the ... Mayer joined one of the International Brigades and went to Spain to fight in the civil war against ... Franco and fascism in 1936. With Hitler's and Mussolini's help, the fascists won. Mayer's brigade
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152. Displaced Persons
Jewish authority in Palestine) and Jewish soldiers from the British Army's Jewish Brigade further ... From 1945 to 1952, more than 250,000 Jewish displaced persons (DPs) lived in camps and urban ... ). Among the concerns facing these Jewish DPs in the years following the Holocaust were the problems of ... gatherings and celebrations. Jewish volunteer agencies supplied religious articles for everyday and holiday
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153. The "Night of Broken Glass"
that followed, organized groups of Nazis wreaked havoc on Jewish life in Nazi Germany. During the riot ... SS, the SA, and the Hitler Youth) to attack Jewish communities. In the hours and days ... local Nazis set hundreds of synagogues on fire. They vandalized thousands of Jewish-owned businesses ... They desecrated Jewish cemeteries. They broke into homes, smashed furniture, and terrorized Jewish
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154. Estelle Laughlin: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
intending to liquidate the ghetto on April 19, 1943, were stunned by an armed uprising from Jewish fighters ... liquidate the ghetto on April 19, 1943, but were stunned when faced with an armed uprising from Jewish ... eventually captured and deported. ESTELLE LAUGHLIN: The Jewish people began to organize themselves into ... Christian underground. The real fighting began when the armored cars, tanks, brigades of soldiers, bomber
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155. Isaac Dickmann
salute a Polish officer. Isaac escaped to Tel Aviv and joined the Jewish Brigade Group. 1945-present
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156. The Syrets Labor Education Camp
prisoners included Jewish and non-Jewish men and women from the following groups ... -Jewish civilians (Ukrainians, Russians, and others) accused of various crimes ... tended to live in the large dugouts and were organized by prisoner group or type. For example, there was ... a “Jewish dugout,” a “partisan dugout,” and a “medical dugout
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157. George Kadish
another on sleds or carts, Jews concentrated in forced work brigades, and so forth. Kadish also recorded ... Jewish council in Kovno was known) food gardens and in schools, orphanages, and workshops. In ... ’s liquidation. Once the Germans fled, he returned to photograph the ghetto in ruins and the small groups who had ... high-ranking officer in the ghetto’s Jewish police, to help hide his negatives and prints. Zupowitz
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158. Irene Fogel Weiss
school, confiscated Jewish businesses, and required thousands of Jewish men to be inducted into Hungarian ... forced labor brigades under military command. Among them was Irene’s father, Meyer, who was conscripted ... other prisoners from the group, deeming them too weak and emaciated to work. Irene said to a camp guard
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159. Hajj Amin al-Husayni: Key Dates
volunteers and Muslim and Arab soldiers serving in Axis forces) to counter the Jewish Brigade Group in the ... establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine. 1918British troops occupy ... 1929Arab crowds enter the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem and initiate a wave of violence over access ... defending the holy sites of Islam against Jewish incursion. The violence leaves 133 Jews and 116 Arabs dead
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160. Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945
Jewish experience in the ghettos and the scale of the destruction of a whole European world must consult ... Buchenwald, and Dachau), 898 subcamps, 39 SS construction brigade camps, and three so-called youth protection ... basis for additional research. Volume I received the 2009 National Jewish Book Award and Library Journal ... history of the ghetto; living and working conditions; activities of the Jewish Councils; Jewish responses
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161. Iran during World War II
Cossack Brigade and an ardent Persian nationalist, Reza Khan led a military conspiracy aimed at the ... military, united as one instead of divided by multiple religious and tribal groups, and for leadership free ... historical name of one of the ethnic groups in Iran. With the reforms Reza Shah was implementing, the ... racist references to non-Jewish peoples in the Middle East in public discourse. Included in the aims of
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162. Estelle Laughlin
:The Jewish people began to organize themselves into an armed resistance. They started to build bunkers ... began when the armored cars, tanks, brigades of soldiers, bomber planes, trucks with loudspeakers ... twentieth century army. Just a small group of poorly clad, poorly fed, poorly armed freedom fighters ... weeks, even after the ghetto was declared cleansed of Jews the Jewish fighters were still fighting. It
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163. Sonderkommandos
The Jews of this work brigade fulfilled many roles in the gas chamber/crematoria complex, beginning ... another group would shave the hair of the victims and search the bodies for hidden valuables, including ... killing center and continued until 1944. Sonderkommandos made up of Jewish prisoners and
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164. Aharon Lazer papers
Jewish Brigade to assist displaced persons on their way to Palestine. The second diary includes Aharon ... group photo of Brigade soldiers. ... Great Britain. Army. Jewish Brigade ... Aharon Lazer was a Jewish soldier in the 1st Palestine Light Anti-Aircraft Battery of the 202 Field
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165. Oscar Schwartz collection
Schwartz while in Germany with the Jewish Brigade 1 box containing: 2 ribbons; 2 patches; 1 belt buckle; 2 ... The collection consists of a group of Nazi material including embroidered ribbons, patches
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166. Fanny and Leo Englard collection
camps during the Holocaust and of Leo Englard in Palestine and the Jewish Brigade Group during World War
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167. Boria Lerner
Boria was born to a Jewish family living in the Bessarabian province when it was still a part of ... Boria became active in a local revolutionary communist group and was arrested and jailed many times ... After moving to Paris in late 1938, he joined the International Brigade to fight alongside the Spanish ... Paris. There, he headed a unit of the Jewish resistance. They planted
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168. Abraham Sutzkever and Szmerke Kaczergingski Collection (RG-223, Vilna Ghetto, Part 1)
Yivo Institute for Jewish Research ... conditions in the ghetto, social and cultural work, activities of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) and the ... Jewish interaction with the German and Lithuanian authorities.The records consists of: maps of the ghetto ... education; materials on various cultural groups; the issues of the *Geto yedies* (Ghetto News),1942-43, a
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169. 30th Anniversary National Tribute Dinner
Hungarian forced labor brigades. In April 1944, Hungarian authorities moved Bótrágy’s Jewish residents into ... (JYPI) and facilitated groups of 10–12th graders in a JYPI program. She was a partner in the Jewish ... Venture Philanthropy Group and served on the board of the United Jewish Endowment Fund. She has worked ... barred from attending school, their businesses were confiscated, and thousands of Jewish men had to join
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170. 30th Anniversary National Tribute Event
forced labor brigades. In April 1944, Hungarian authorities moved Bótrágy’s Jewish residents into the ... groups of 10–12th graders in a JYPI program. She was a partner in the Jewish Venture Philanthropy Group ... and served on the board of the United Jewish Endowment Fund. She has worked with groups of children ... attending school, their businesses were confiscated, and thousands of Jewish men had to join Hungarian
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171. Erika's Story
. So it was that we left through the forest, Katarinovka. In the forest, we came upon a group of Czech ... military trucks when we came to Snina, a place in Slovakia. There, we found a whole brigade of Czechs. They ... Jewish girl who is married to a Czech officer. Then I started to make up a story that she was crazy and ... the Czech soldier told me that there were 16 Jewish people there and they were all killed the night
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172. Lisa Dawidowicz
organized the local Jews into work brigades. Lisa's family realized by late 1942 that many of these groups ... Lisa was born to a Jewish family in the small city of Ostrog in southeastern Poland. Her parents ... their home. Ostrog was an important center of Jewish religious learning in Poland, and by 1933 Jews made
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173. Abraham Atsmon papers
meetings of Jewish political groups, and the ORT school in Munich. Two photo albums document Atsmon ... published by Jewish groups in displaced persons camps after the war. Additional printed materials include a ... The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish ... director of its hospital and surgical department. He escaped the ghetto, joined a partisan group in Belarus
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174. Belt buckle
Schwartz while in Germany with the Jewish Brigade 1 box containing: 2 ribbons; 2 patches; 1 belt buckle; 2 ... The belt buckle was found by Oscar Schwartz while in Germany with the Jewish Brigade. ... The collection consists of a group of Nazi material including embroidered ribbons, patches
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175. Nazi swastika armband
Schwartz while in Germany with the Jewish Brigade 1 box containing: 2 ribbons; 2 patches; 1 belt buckle; 2 ... The armband was found by Oscar Schwartz while in Germany with the Jewish Brigade. ... The collection consists of a group of Nazi material including embroidered ribbons, patches