• At the end of June 1942, the deportation to Poland began on a large scale. (theholocaustexplained.org)
  • At the beginning of 1942, it was replaced by The Central Bureau of Jews. (nizkor.com)
  • Again, the date of the visit is in dispute: In his evidence before us, the Accused moves this visit to the winter of 1941-1942 (Session 87, Vol. IV, p. xxxx22). (nizkor.org)
  • The Polish Foreign Ministry issued an important statement on the extermination of the Jews in December, 1942. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • Schaleck, who had established her reputation as an artist in Vienna, returned to Czechoslovakia following the Anschluss (March 13, 1938) and lived there until her internment in February 1942. (jwa.org)
  • On 21 July 1942 the Nazis began the 'Gross-Aktion Warsaw', the operation of mass-deportation of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka death camp, 80 km north-east. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • 4. The initial steps leading to the present policy of extermination of the Jews were taken already in October, 1940, when the German authorities established the Warsaw ghetto. (mai68.org)
  • At that time all the Jewish inhabitants of the Capital were ordered to move into the Jewish quarter assigned to them not later than November 1st, 1940, while all the non-Jews domiciled within the new boundaries of what was to become the ghetto were ordered to move out of that quarter : The Jews were allowed to take only personal effects with them, while all their remaining property was confiscated. (mai68.org)
  • She was one of the Jews who were torn without warning from their homes in Baden and Pfalz in Germany and in October 1940 sent to various French camps. (jwa.org)
  • These cards were issued to all Jews following the Nazis occupation of Czechoslovakia. (theholocaustexplained.org)
  • The group kept returning to that thought as the investigation made it clearer and clearer: The person they concluded had informed the Nazis about Anne and the others hiding in the Amsterdam annex was in fact Jewish - one of the most prominent members of the Dutch Jewish community at the time. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • As Mr. Sebbag had reminded them, the Nazis had tried to dehumanize the Jews. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • as a Jew, he was forced to divest himself of the business after the Nazis occupied the Netherlands. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • When the Nazis captured Lvov in 1941, Rabkin's family joined more than 200,000 other Jews who were herded into Lvov's ghetto. (jweekly.com)
  • In 1941, they welcomed the German Nazis as liberators from Soviet rule and joined the German army, committing atrocities against Jews and other civilians. (euronewstop.co.uk)
  • These policemen had to cooperate with the Nazis, but in return they received increased rations and special privileges--for themselves and their families. (holocaustchronicle.org)
  • A passionate antisemite, he became a key ally of Adolf Hitler in endorsing the annihilation of Europe's Jews, at the same time vetoing attempts to rescue Jews (particularly Jewish children) and trying to convince the Nazis to bomb Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. (danielpipes.org)
  • The Nazis, with the help of local collaborators, gathered Ukraine's Jews in local ghettos, but, for the most part, instead of deporting them to camps, shot them in forests and fields close to home. (fjc-fsu.org)
  • On December 16, 1941, the government dissolved the Federation of the Unions of the Jewish Communities. (nizkor.com)
  • The new methods of mass slaughter applied during the last few months confirm the fact that the German authorities aim with systematic deliberation at the total extermination of the Jewish population of Poland and of the many thousands of Jews whom the German authorities have departed to Poland from Western and Central European countries and from the German Reich itself. (mai68.org)
  • In 1650 ten Jewish families were granted privileges allowing them to engage in business and moneylending, but forbidding them to build a synagogue. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • and was the largest Jewish community in Prussia. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • The Jewish school was closed in 1941. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • It focused on the history of the Jews in Halberstadt as a model for Jewish history in Prussia. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • The Romanian Bishops who came after him also allowed the Jewish inhabitants to settle without setting boundaries, and conducted themselves toward the Jews with tolerance. (jewishgen.org)
  • At the same time, she takes pains both to note Polish suffering and to address the most sensitive question of Polish-Jewish relations: What did Poles do to help or injure Jews? (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • She discusses the disproportionate representation of Polish Jews in communist armies, refers to the "Jewish lobby at Versailles," and takes pains to recount how Jewish refugees in eastern Poland in 1939 welcomed the Red Army, much to the anger of other Poles. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • After the assassination of a low-level German bureaucrat in November 1938, a state-sponsored crackdown on Jews in Germany left much Jewish property in ruins, many dead, and approximately 30,000 Jews in concentration camps. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • Romanian troops rivaled Nazi Einsatzgruppen in the brutal killing of Jews, annihilating half of Romania's prewar Jewish population of 760,000. (holocaustchronicle.org)
  • In January 1941 Iron Guard Legionnaires stormed the Jewish section of Bucharest, where they burned shops, homes, and synagogues. (holocaustchronicle.org)
  • January 31, 1941: 3000 Jewish deportees, mostly from the Polish town of Pruszków, arrive at the Warsaw Ghetto. (holocaustchronicle.org)
  • Al-Husseini's preaching of anti-Jewish hatred led to him making a speech on August 23, 1929, which generated riots that killed 133 Jews and wounded 339 more. (danielpipes.org)
  • This created huge problems for Jews because of their increasing suffering in Nazi Germany since 1933 and the Evian Conference's failure to find a resolution to the settlement of Jewish refugees. (danielpipes.org)
  • In the resultant pogrom, 600 Bagdadi Jews were killed, 911 Jewish houses were destroyed, and 586 Jewish businesses ransacked. (danielpipes.org)
  • The Hungarian Jewish community is the largest in East Central Europe. (rabbiscer.org)
  • Most Hungarian Jews live in the capital, Budapest, which has some 20 working synagogues and a plethora of other Jewish institutions, both religious and cultural. (rabbiscer.org)
  • Before the war, Hungary had a Jewish population of 450,000 and Budapest was home to over 200,000 Jews, who accounted for some 20% of the city's habitants. (rabbiscer.org)
  • Today, despite antisemitic rumblings, Hungary Jews have every facility to express their Jewish heritage and religious life. (rabbiscer.org)
  • We even have information about highly qualified Jewish workers who were allowed to return home. (ukrainianjewishencounter.org)
  • She and all other Jewish children were forced out of public schools and were not allowed to enjoy the public parks and swimming pool. (holocaustcenter.org)
  • The first permanent post-Perestroika Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries to Ukraine arrived in 1990 to what was still the Soviet Union, and began leading the synagogues in Kharkov and Dnipro (Dnepropetrovsk until 2014) that had just been returned to the Jewish community by the authorities. (fjc-fsu.org)
  • Chabad maintains a Jewish university in Odessa and has built the largest Jewish center in the world in Dnipro. (fjc-fsu.org)
  • According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Musuem, prior to Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, "Ukraine was home to the largest Jewish population in Europe… While scholars are still researching the scale of the Holocaust in Ukraine, they estimate at least one and a half million Jews were killed there. (fjc-fsu.org)
  • When Chabad of Zhitomir was established in the early 1990s by Rabbi Shlomo and Esther Wilhelm, one of their responsibilities was to reach out to the dozens of smaller Jewish towns where throngs of older Jews still lived. (fjc-fsu.org)
  • Within its wall lived 395,000 Varsovians (residents of Warsaw) of Jewish descent, 50,000 people resettled from the western part of the Warsaw district, 3,000 from its eastern part as well as 4,000 Jews from Germany (all resettled in the early months of 1941). (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • A Jewish man selling his bread allowance in the street of the ghetto, summer 1941. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • Numerous critics have written that President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his administration did not do enough to attempt to rescue millions of European Jews from Nazi concentration camps. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • With emigration to Palestine greatly limited by the British and entrance into North America slowed to a trickle, European Jews scattered around the globe. (holocaustchronicle.org)
  • However, from the 1830s, poorer eastern European Jews began moving to the country in greater numbers. (rabbiscer.org)
  • To make the desert landscape suitable for habitation, idealistic young European Jews prepared to cultivate the land as pioneers. (joodsmonument.nl)
  • The 5,000 Poles honored as Righteous Gentiles by Yad Vashem cannot have been the only ones who helped Jews. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • Kochanski is more charitable to the Poles than she is to the Jews. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • At the time, between three hundred and five hundred laborers, Jews as well as Poles, worked here. (ukrainianjewishencounter.org)
  • In total 113,000 gentile Poles were forced to resettle to the 'Aryan side' and were replaced by 138,000 Jews from other districts of the capital. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • An average daily food ration in 1941 for Jews in Warsaw was limited to 184 calories, compared to 699 calories allowed for the gentile Poles and 2,613 calories for the Germans. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • During the German occupation, Alice was transported to the Łódź Ghetto on the 31 October 1941 (as marked on the lower right hand page). (theholocaustexplained.org)
  • The Kaunas suburb of Vilijampolė was the location of the Kaunas Ghetto from 1941 until its complete destruction in 1944. (bienale.lt)
  • 165. It is therefore clear that all the Jews dispatched by the Accused and his Section to the East for "posting for work," or under any other camouflage term, were dispatched to death by him knowingly, whether he sent them after the Wannsee Conference or in October 1941 to the Lodz Ghetto. (nizkor.org)
  • All those who left the ghetto without such a pass became liable to sentence of death, and it is known that German courts passed such sentences in a large number of cases. (mai68.org)
  • Thousands of Jews made their way to Shanghai, where the Chinese government created a benevolent ghetto for the recent arrivals from Europe. (holocaustchronicle.org)
  • It was to become the largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • The ghetto reached its highest number of inhabitants in April 1941. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • During the first year and a half, thousands of Polish Jews, as well as some Romani people from smaller towns and the countryside, were brought into the Ghetto. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • Foodstuffs were smuggled often by children alone who crossed the Ghetto wall anyway possible in their hundreds sometimes several times a day, returning with goods that could weight as much as they did. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • In the summer of 1941, Willi Georg, a German Army signalman, visited the ghetto on his commanding officer's order. (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
  • During the siege of Odessa, Romanian dictator Ion Antonescu ordered the execution of more than 35,000 of the city's Jews. (holocaustchronicle.org)
  • More than 35,000 Jews lived in Kovno at the beginning of World War II. (bj.org)
  • Here, on 28 October 1941, a mass selection took place that resulted in the largest single mass extermination of Jews during the war in Lithuania. (bienale.lt)
  • In the 19th century, it served as a center of Romanian culture and had a large cathedral. (jewishgen.org)
  • The first Jews settled in the early part of the 19th century. (jewishgen.org)
  • The 19th century was for many Jews a time of assimilation and emancipation. (rabbiscer.org)
  • Some 80 percent of Hungarian Jews live in Budapest. (rabbiscer.org)
  • Hungarian Jews are especially well represented in the free professions, science and academia and in business. (rabbiscer.org)
  • In recent years, in response to the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Hungary, several hundred Hungarian Jews have left the country, many of whom have settled in nearby Vienna. (rabbiscer.org)
  • Many Hungarian Jews took part in the 1848/49 revolution, and their social and economic standing rose. (rabbiscer.org)
  • In 1867, Hungarian Jews were granted the same political and civil rights as Christians. (rabbiscer.org)
  • By the end of the Second World war, the young architect and businessman Raoul Wallenberg saved the lives of tens and thousands Hungarian Jews. (lu.se)
  • The Germans planned to use this Bureau as an instrument in the implementation of their plan to cleanse Romania of Jews, similar to the deportations and destruction that were taking place in Poland. (nizkor.com)
  • Like the French, the Germans, and the Dutch, the Jews saw themselves as a nation with their own language and customs. (joodsmonument.nl)
  • She has been honored by Christians and Jews for her efforts. (bj.org)
  • By the end of the 18th century, the first conflicts emerged between Christians and Jews. (rabbiscer.org)
  • After the German takeover, Jews soon became subject to a number of discriminatory laws, similar to those in place in Nazi German y. (theholocaustexplained.org)
  • On April 3, 1941, he attempted a takeover of the Iraqi government with Nazi support. (danielpipes.org)
  • When Britain suppressed the takeover, al-Husseini blamed the failure of the Nazi takeover on the Jews. (danielpipes.org)
  • By the fall of 1941, however, the first reports of Nazi atrocities against the Jews of Europe began filtering through the American Embassy in Berlin. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • According to Ahamed 'Uthman, Zionist surrounded and blockaded the village in 1947, and continued into 1948: [The Jews] did not allow any to enter or leave the village. (wikipedia.org)
  • Arab anger against the proposal resulted in riots against Jews breaking out in Jaffa on April 19, 1936. (danielpipes.org)
  • Mustn't any history of Poland in the Second World War therefore put the Jews and the Holocaust at the center? (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • For many Jews around the world, the name Ukraine conjures images of the place their grandparents or ancestors fled in the late 1800s or early 1900s, or as a region where millions of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. (fjc-fsu.org)
  • In the recaptured Romanian provinces of Bukovina and Bessarabia, Jews bore the brunt of the killing frenzy. (holocaustchronicle.org)
  • The village was named Omm Kaled on a 1799 map of the area, and the village was razed by the troops of Napoleon during their return to Egypt after their failed siege of Acre in 1799. (wikipedia.org)
  • The first Jews living in what is today Hungarian territory were inhabitants of the Roman province Pannonia and settled there in the 2nd century CE. (rabbiscer.org)
  • During the carnage of Kraziai Jews managed to rescue quite a few of their Lithuanian neighbors from the wrath of the Cossacks. (jewishgen.org)
  • The largest of the Baltic States, it is bordered on the north by Latvia, on the east by the Kalinigrad Oblast of Russia, on the south and southeast by Belarus and on the south by Poland. (encyclopedia.com)
  • 3. Most recent reports present a horrifying picture of the position to which the Jews in Poland have been reduced. (mai68.org)
  • According to the organizers of a recent Jerusalem conference marking the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Israel and Poland, the time has come for Jews to recognize the plain truth: Poland is Israel's best friend in the European Union. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • In June 1934, the celebrated American Yiddish poet Jacob Glatstein received an urgent summons to return to his native Lublin, Poland, where his mother lay at death's door. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • This was the third-largest urban community in prewar Poland. (ukrainianjewishencounter.org)
  • The Russian Empire was not home to a large number of Jews until the First Partition of Poland in 1772, when swaths of Poland were annexed by its neighbors, including Russia. (fjc-fsu.org)
  • Next came Auschwitz III, or Buna-Monowitz , the largest forced labour camp of the Auschwitz complex. (ort.org)
  • She speculates that Polish aid to Jews must have been at a level that would warrant the Nazi order punishing assistance with death. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • The first inmates imprisoned here were Polish political prisoners, and numbers increased continually as the prisoner population grew to include Jews, Soviets, German criminals and homosexuals, and Jehovah's Witnesses. (ort.org)
  • From the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 until the end of the war, it became a vast killing ground. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • Hundreds of thousands more became Soviet prisoners, but many of them were released in 1941 and allowed to join forces with the British under the leadership of Władysław Anders. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • All this is of course true, but what is also true is that Ukraine has been an increasingly hospitable home for hundreds of thousands of Jews whose families lived in its towns and cities for centuries and remained there even after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. (fjc-fsu.org)
  • According to the Soviet census of 1926, some 50 percent of the Soviet Union's 2.7 million Jews lived in Ukraine, and 87 percent of them lived in small towns or villages. (fjc-fsu.org)
  • This began to change slowly in the early Soviet period and accelerated during the early 1930s hunger resulting from forced collectivization, as Jews began to head to cities for work and food. (fjc-fsu.org)
  • Thousands of Jews were beaten and tortured. (holocaustchronicle.org)
  • Hundreds of thousands of Hungarian-speaking Jews lived in territories in the neighboring countries that had once been under Hungarian rule. (rabbiscer.org)
  • In 1492 came another upheaval when thousands of Jews evicted from Spain sought and found refuge in the city. (nybooks.com)
  • After the Allied occupation of Iran on October 8, 1941, and the new Persian government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi severed diplomatic relations with the Axis powers, al-Husseini was taken under Italian protection and smuggled through Turkey to Italy in an operation organized by Italian military intelligence. (danielpipes.org)
  • By the early 1930s five of Aron's siblings had left the shtetl for larger towns, while Aron, his brother Leyzer (who took over their father's smithy), and their crippled sister remained in Bobr, mainly to support their sick father and the rest of the family. (yadvashem.org)
  • During the 1930s, economic depression fueled Romanian propaganda that depicted Jews as parasites. (holocaustchronicle.org)
  • He spent two months in a concentration camp in Transnistria, where a large part of Romanian Jewry had been deported. (nizkor.com)
  • The largest of the Nazi concentration camps, this sprawling complex was the site of the murder of millions, through gas, beatings and shootings, illness, medical experimentation, exhaustion and starvation. (ort.org)
  • The question of finding a "cleaner" and more efficient system for mass executions than shooting undoubtedly occupied the attention of the Accused as early as the end of the summer or the beginning of the autumn of 1941. (nizkor.org)
  • The first commandant was Fritz Gebauer, who was in charge of the workshops from the summer of 1941. (ukrainianjewishencounter.org)
  • It was not until the following year in the summer of 1941 that the war began to personally affect Mrs. Sorensen. (holocaustcenter.org)
  • The city was then administered by the Church, and the Jews got permission from the Romanian Orthodox bishop of Oradea. (jewishgen.org)
  • The Jews spoke Hungarian, with Romanian as their second language. (jewishgen.org)
  • Shortly afterward, several Jews again settled in the city and built a synagogue, which was destroyed during the Thirty Years War. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • Jew of Saxony and protector of the community, established a bet midrash , the renowned klaus (1707), and in 1712 permission was granted to build a new synagogue. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • In 1857, the Burial Society was established, and in 1858, the large synagogue was built. (jewishgen.org)
  • In 1894, the synagogue was enlarged so that it would be able to accommodate the Jews of the area. (jewishgen.org)
  • The Jews alone made up more than 10 per cent of the country's population. (jewishideasdaily.com)
  • The Jews, who retained their Judeo-Spanish language throughout their sojourn in Salonica, were still the largest ethnic group in the population when the city fell to the Greek army in 1912. (nybooks.com)
  • This included the British refusal to allow a sizable number of Jews to emigrate to Palestine, then under British jurisdiction. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • In a message to Washington, embassy officials said that by the end of the year all able-bodied Jews were to be expelled from Germany and that a large number of Jews were being sent to forced-labor camps. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • The authorities protected the Jews from the jealousy of Christian merchants and as a result the community had grown to 118 families (639 persons) by 1699. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • But the Russian presence there remained so large that in the 90s the local authorities had intentions to hold a referendum on reunification with Russia. (euronewstop.co.uk)
  • In the winter of 1941-42, the camp experienced its first great crisis: a typhus epidemic that killed nearly three hundred prisoners. (ukrainianjewishencounter.org)
  • The orchestra's primary task was to accompany prisoners marching to and from work, so that the marching rhythm would allow ease of control over the prisoners. (ort.org)
  • Many surviving Jews returned home after the war, and traces of the former Pale of Settlement were readily visible as late as the 1980s and early 90s. (fjc-fsu.org)
  • One day a German man showed up at their flat with a large sack. (jweekly.com)
  • This planned German return of secrets who executed from both the German and specific demands in East-Central Europe is Symptoms of many protocols, short children, and protest human speeches. (krugerquarterhorses.com)
  • In the 18th century, German-speaking (Ashkenazi) Jews arrived in Hungary, primarily from Czech and German territories. (rabbiscer.org)
  • Much of this information includes real-time reports from verified sources documenting the systematic elimination of Jews and other ethnic minorities in Europe. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • Until Our Last Breath is intensely personal and painstakingly researched, a lasting memorial to the Jews of Vilna, including the resistance fighters and the author's family. (barnesandnoble.com)
  • The first prisoner orchestra was set up in the winter of 1941, with Franz Nierychlo as conductor. (ort.org)
  • One of the consequences of this growing public sentiment was a decrease in the number of visas issued by the U.S. State Department at a time when the Jews of Europe were beginning to feel Hitler's anti-Semitic crackdown. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • According to various data, 160,000 Jews were living in Lviv at the time. (ukrainianjewishencounter.org)
  • The results have not only kept the family farm going, but have allowed it to grow by more than 400 percent in the last eight years. (kqed.org)
  • It is no longer possible to reconstruct how Benjamin Goldberger earned a living after starting the large family. (stolpersteine-hamburg.de)
  • Of the entire family, only one aunt returned from the camps. (holocaustcenter.org)
  • Reports of mass killings of Jews were being filed by many reputable reporters as well as by government officials in Europe, all of which made their way back to the U.S. State Department. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • January 30, 1941: On his eighth anniversary as chancellor, Hitler repeats his threat to destroy all of the Jews of Europe. (holocaustchronicle.org)
  • Instead, they were returned to Europe. (in.gov)
  • The Bay Area is one of the largest urban centers in California. (kqed.org)
  • However, in some Bay Area counties such as Marin, agriculture still ranks as one of the largest employers. (kqed.org)
  • He fell in love with the area and bought his own dairy farm in nearby Marshall in 1941. (kqed.org)
  • When no unoccupied area sufficiently large could be found, the Assyrians continued to insist that, at the very least, their patriarch, the Mar Shamun, be given some temporal authority. (allrefer.com)
  • For example, part of the reason why Mendel Beilis was chosen to be the victim of the infamous 1911-1913 blood libel in Kiev was because, as the manager of a factory, he was one of the only Jews in the area permitted to live there. (fjc-fsu.org)
  • Most of these refugees had purchased visas that they believed would allow them to live in Cuba while waiting for their turn to immigrate to the U.S. when there was room within the quota . (in.gov)
  • Krozh Jews made their living in commerce, trades and to a smaller extent in agriculture. (jewishgen.org)
  • In that war, 33 Jews of the town died, an especially large number. (jewishgen.org)
  • of a Jew in town, that in the name of the rest doth offer to give any man £10, to be paid £100 if a certain person now at Smirna be within these two years owned by all the princes of the East, and perticularly the Grand Segnor [Sultan], as the King of the world…and that this man is the true Messiah. (nybooks.com)
  • I hope to succeed here in honoring the memory of the Jews of this town, and, thereby, the memory of my Grandfather. (litvaksig.org)
  • The majority of the Jews were employed in business and trade, but they were also government clerks and even policemen. (jewishgen.org)
  • The great majority of Jews in Hungary are unaffiliated. (rabbiscer.org)
  • the vast majority would never return. (ort.org)
  • Due to a series of political squabbles between Cuban politicians, the passengers having to pay $150 each for landing permits (over and above their fare for the voyage), and a series of bribes among Cuban government officials, the St. Louis was not allowed to dock. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • There was some anti-Semitism, and there were limits to what Jews could aspire to-very few held government positions or judgeships-but on the whole, Jews enjoyed relative security and a good life. (bj.org)
  • Harmon also laughed at one of Buntion's character witnesses and attackedan appeals court as "liberal bastards"and "idiots" afterit ruled that he must allow the jury to consider mitigating evidence. (counterpunch.org)
  • The Baltimore grand jury this after noon returned an indictment charging Delegate Charles S. (loc.gov)
  • The jury returned a nine-page docu ment. (loc.gov)
  • The relationship between the Jews and the Romanians and Hungarians was civil and there were no recorded stories of violence in the period before the First World War. (jewishgen.org)
  • One of the most enduring questions emerging from World War II is the reaction of the West, and particularly the United States, to the plight of the Jews as they faced Hitler's "Final Solution. (warfarehistorynetwork.com)
  • Ever since the Diaspora, when they were scattered all over the world, Jews have always longed to return to the holy city of Jerusalem. (joodsmonument.nl)
  • Until the last months of the orchestra, Jews were not allowed to join. (ort.org)
  • Occupations of Jews in this period ranged from simple handicraft to finance and industry. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
  • In this period there were also a few rabbis, such as Simon Philip de Vries and Chief Rabbi Aäron Barend Davids , who openly supported the Zionist ideal, breaking with traditional tendencies among Dutch Jews. (joodsmonument.nl)