Displaying: 1 15 of 15 matches for “persecuted in the holocaust”
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1. The American Friends Service Committee Organizing a Rescue Network
Quakers), was the largest non-Jewish American organization assisting refugees escaping Nazi persecution ... The AFSC worked in French internment camps, hid Jewish children, and assisted thousands of Jewish and ... only an estimated 112,000 Quakers in the United States in 1930, or less than one-tenth of one percent ... of the overall population—but Quakers had always been active in social movements and when
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2. Teacher Resources
out the Holocaust alone. Ordinary people played a key role in the persecution and murder of ... What Was the Holocaust? The Holocaust was the persecution and murder of European Jews by the Nazi ... exclude Jews from German society. The regime’s persecution of Jews in Germany grew more radical over ... leadership played out in the context of the Holocaust. The modules pose larger questions about how these
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3. Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus One Couple, 50 Children
the Krauses wave to the Statue of Liberty upon arrival in New York, June 1939. US Holocaust Memorial ... life in Philadelphia. As antisemitic persecutions intensified during the 1930s, the Krauses began to ... Americans Who Dared Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus One Couple, 50 Children In January 1939, the Jewish ... talk with friends about ways they might help European Jews. In January 1939, two months after the
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4. Raymond Geist
. Surrounded by human misery in Berlin, Geist came to believe that America had a duty to assist the persecuted ... Political Voices Raymond Geist As the senior US consular official in Berlin during the years ... “annihilation of the Jews,” but his warnings were largely ignored in Washington. Raymond Geist, leaving the ... ,” Geist informed his superiors in Washington in October 1938, referring to the Gestapo. “Otherwise
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5. Dorothy Thompson
attention to the threat that Nazi Germany posed to democracy and to Europe’s Jews. In 1939, Time magazine ... called Thompson and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt “undoubtedly the most influential women in America ... .” Journalist Dorothy Thompson, testifying to Congress in support of repealing the Neutrality Acts, April 1939 ... good story. In 1921, Thompson posed as a Red Cross nurse and infiltrated the castle of the former
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6. Timeline
during the Holocaust and World War II offers background and context for the stories in this exhibition ... offered support in carrying out the Holocaust. They located victims, arrested them, seized their property ... prisoners who escaped, only 58 survived the Holocaust. German Forces Occupy Hungary By 1943, leaders in Nazi ... Timeline Timeline This guide to key historical events during the Holocaust and World War II offers
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7. Varian Fry Emergency Escape
their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. In 2000, the square in front of the US consulate in ... Holocaust Memorial Museum. Varian Fry had seen Nazi terror firsthand, even before traveling to Europe in ... witnessed an anti-Jewish riot in Berlin. In the New York Times, Fry described the scene: “I saw one ... concerned about the Nazi regime’s persecution of Jews and other victims. After Germany invaded France
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8. Herta Griffel
her Jewish elementary school class in Vienna to survive the Holocaust. Leaving Vienna Herta Griffel ... In Danger Herta Griffel After Nazi Germany annexed Austria, Beila Griffel made the painful ... her mother—she died after being deported to Nazi-occupied Poland—and was one of the only children in ... with her mother, Beila, ca. 1938. US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In March 1938, Nazi Germany annexed
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9. Charles Coughlin
.” US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In this September 1940 issue of Social Justice, Coughlin called the ... “Naziism, the effect of Communism, cannot be liquidated in its persecution complex until the religious Jews ... Catholic priest and radio celebrity based in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, Michigan. His sermons, aired ... complex issues into what he called “the language of the man-in-the-street” made his radio show
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10. Breckinridge Long
obstructing efforts to aid Jews. US Holocaust Memorial Museum. In November 1943, the US House of ... people who applied to immigrate to the United States—including Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution ... secretary of State during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson and, while in Washington, befriended future ... president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Long’s own political campaigns failed: he ran for the US Senate in
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11. Stephen Wise
established to “defend Jewish interests at home and abroad.” In 1936, he founded the World ... Jewish Congress (WJC), headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland; he served as the WJC’s president from ... the United States. Rabbi Stephen Wise, October 4, 1943. Associated Press/Ed Ford. US Holocaust ... Memorial Museum. Protesting Nazism In 1933, the American press reported extensively on both Adolf
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12. Henry Morgenthau Jr.
from within the American Jewish community that Holocaust survivors were being treated terribly in camps ... ceremonial ribbon at the Tal Shahar cooperative farming community in Israel, 1950. US Holocaust Memorial ... had also secretly forbidden US diplomats in Switzerland from sending information about the Nazi regime ... ’s mass murder of Jews to the United States. In January 1944, Morgenthau finally decided to go to the
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13. Frances Perkins
assist German Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. She met formidable opposition from officials in the State ... Jewish refugees seeking to immigrate to the United States—often in opposition to the prevailing public ... labor in 1933, her duties included overseeing the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which ... was in charge of the US entry ports. However, the 1924 US immigration law had granted State Department
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14. Hiram Bingham IV
in Between, co-published by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. ... .” Bingham resigned from the Foreign Service in 1946 and went largely unrecognized until after his death ... American Vice Consul Hiram Bingham looks out over the port of Marseilles. United States Holocaust Memorial ... a grim internment camp in the shadow of the Pyrenees Mountains in southwest France. He was traveling
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15. Max and Fanny Valfer
America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between, co-published by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. ... In Danger Max and Fanny Valfer Max and Fanny Valfer were among the 6,504 Jews from Southwest ... Germany deported to France in October 1940, as part of a large ethnic cleansing drive by the Nazis ... Interned in Gurs, in southwestern France, they spent much of the next 20 months trying to acquire visas for