Displaying: 1 13 of 13 matches for “persecuted in the holocaust”
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1. Robert Wagemann describes secret Jehovah's Witness prayer meetings in Nazi Germany
oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler, or to serve in the German army. Robert's family continued its ... killing of those they deemed physically and mentally disabled in the fall of 1939.
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2. Emanuel Tanay describes the establishment of the Miechow ghetto
Emanuel and his family lived in the small town of Miechow, north of ... Krakow. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, persecution of Jews ... increased. The Germans established a ghetto in Miechow. Emanuel was forced to live in the ghetto. Emanuel ... his mother, and his sister escaped from the ghetto before it was destroyed in 1942. He stayed in a
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3. Memorial Pageant calls for the rescue of European Jewry
the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, "We Will Never Die." The pageant, sponsored by the Zionist ... seen in other US cities, the show was part of the Bergson Group's effort to pressure Washington to act
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4. Irena Sendler describes how she was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo
German-occupied Poland. Supported by the Polish government-in-exile, Żegota coordinated efforts to ... World War II broke out in 1939. After the Nazis forced Warsaw’s Jews to move into the ghetto in the ... Jewish children out of the Warsaw ghetto. She found hiding places for them in orphanages, convents ... recorded their original names and placements in code so that relatives could find them after the war. In
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5. Training for emigration
escape persecution by leaving the country. ... Members of a German Zionist youth group learn farming techniques in preparation for their new ... lives in Palestine. Many Jewish youths in Nazi Germany participated in similar programs, hoping to
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6. Romani (Gypsy) campsite near Berlin
-Nagy shows a Romani (Gypsy) campsite near Berlin, Germany, in the last year of the ... Weimar Republic. Although Roma (Gypsies) had faced persecution in ... Germany even before the Nazi rise to power in 1933, the Nazis regarded them as ... racial enemies to be identified and killed. Tens of thousands of Roma were killed by the
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7. Telford Taylor during Justice Case
In the Justice Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings, nine officials from the German ... then utilizing the emptied forms of legal process for the persecution, enslavement and extermination on ... a large scale.” In this footage from the trial, US prosecutor Telford Taylor describes the ... Ministry of Justice and seven members of the Nazi-era People's and Special Courts were charged with
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8. Miriam Peleg describes why she joined Żegota
Nazi persecution. In 1943, Miriam joined the Kraków branch of Żegota. She worked as a liaison ... Poland. Supported by the Polish government-in-exile, Żegota coordinated efforts to save Jews from Nazi ... -Jewish family. She grew up in a small town about 70 miles east of Kraków. As early as the summer of 1940 ... Nations.” In this interview, Miriam describes why she joined the Kraków branch of Żegota.
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9. Miriam Peleg explains why Żegota was important
rescue efforts. From the start of World War II, she helped other Jews evade Nazi persecution. In ... Poland. Supported by the Polish government-in-exile, Żegota coordinated efforts to save Jews from Nazi ... -Jewish family. She grew up in a small town about 70 miles east of Kraków. As early as the summer of 1940 ... Nations.” In this interview, Miriam describes why Żegota was important during the war.
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10. Telford Taylor describes Justice Case defendants
In the Justice Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings, nine officials from the German ... then utilizing the emptied forms of legal process for the persecution, enslavement and extermination on ... Ministry of Justice and seven members of the Nazi-era People's and Special Courts were charged with ... “judicial murder and other atrocities, which they committed by destroying law and justice in Germany, and
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11. Evian Conference fails to aid refugees
to discuss the problem of Jewish refugees. The refugees were desperate to flee Nazi persecution in ... Delegates of 32 countries assembled at the Royal Hotel in Evian, France, from July 6 to 15, 1938 ... Germany, but could not leave without having permission to settle in other countries. The Evian Conference ... resulted in almost no change in the immigration policies of most of the attending nations. The major powers
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12. Władysław Bartoszewski discusses Żegota
German-occupied Poland. Supported by the Polish government-in-exile, Żegota coordinated efforts to ... World War II broke out in 1939, Władysław worked as a janitor at a Polish Red Cross clinic. In the ... fall of 1940, Władysław was caught in an arbitrary arrest wave in Warsaw. The Nazi German authorities ... in 1941 through the efforts of the Red Cross. For the rest of the war, he actively engaged in
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13. Robert Wagemann describes fleeing from a clinic where, his mother feared, he was to be put to death by euthanasia
oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler, or to serve in the German army. Robert's family continued its ... killing of those they deemed physically and mentally disabled in the fall of 1939. ... Robert and his family were Jehovah's Witnesses. The Nazis regarded ... Jehovah's Witnesses as enemies of the state for their refusal to take an