The British visa that allowed Rolf Friedland to visit England for two weeks in 1938. (timesofisrael.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)
In 1937 Welles would open his own theater company with help from John Houseman called the Mercury Theatre where the two would work together on major productions such as War of the Worlds in 1938 and Citizen Kane in 1941 both of which became massively successful and are still considered consummate classics to this day. (poudrepress.com)
Hitler6
Mussolini, an ally of Hitler, said that if the Jews wanted their own country, "They should establish Tel Aviv in America. (israelnationalnews.com)
Montefiore states, "Hitler replied that even the High Command was not allowed to drink coffee in his presence: he then left the room, returning with an SS guard bearing lemonade. (israelnationalnews.com)
In response to insurgencies largely led by the Serb nationalist Chetnik movement, Hitler in 1941 ordered the shooting of 100 hostages for every ethnic German death in Serbia and the Banat region. (state.gov)
In June 1941, Hitler betrayed and attacked his faithful Soviet ally. (axishistory.com)
Nazis10
Later on the Nazis slaughtered all the Jews of the town - as will be recounted further on. (jewishgen.org)
The extinction of this sacred Jewish community was accomplished in two phases: First the Soviets paralyzed its spiritual and economic existence, and then the Nazis annihilated the Jews themselves. (jewishgen.org)
They stayed for twelve days, until the Soviets took over the town - and during this brief time the Jews of Semiatych had a foretaste of what would be their fate if the Nazis were to remain the sole rulers. (jewishgen.org)
After such a tragic prologue at the hands of the Nazis the Jews were overjoyed when the Soviets occupied Semiatych on Succoth. (jewishgen.org)
This possibility existed even after October 1941, when the Nazis banned Jewish emigration from territories they directly occupied. (ushmm.org)
on the east bank of the Dniester, two common graves contained the bodies of 3,500 Jews from Dubossary itself and 7,000 from the vicinity, killed in the town after being rounded up by the Nazis. (jewishvirtuallibrary.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)
As part of the Princz settlement, the U.S. government established the Holocaust Claims Program, allowing American citizens who suffered at the hands of the Nazis to file for restitution. (jweekly.com)
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Nevertheless the Jews remained, until 1939, the dominating force in local economic life, and also enjoyed great spiritual and social growth. (jewishgen.org)
Jewish9
Arab mobs poured into Jerusalem, lynching Jews, firing guns, looting Jewish shops and screaming "butcher the Jews. (israelnationalnews.com)
Many of the Jews were occupied in trade, but a large number were craftsmen and some were laborers in the several factories which lay mainly in Jewish hands. (jewishgen.org)
Because they were not allowed to work, they had to depend on support from relatives and Jewish refugee organizations. (ushmm.org)
Hedy speaks about what it means to be Jewish in America and support Palestine, while Jews in the USA are taught that Israel is an ally of the United States while it practices apartheid against the Palestinians. (bbsradio.com)
According to reports of the Nazi Einsatzkommandos ('action groups') which entered the area in July 1941 in the wake of the occupying troops, two-thirds of the local Jewish population had fled the area. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
According to the World Jewish Congress, Serbia is currently home to between 1,400 and 2,800 Jews. (state.gov)
In the autumn of 1941, Nazi security police began rounding up Jewish women and children in Serbia and incarcerating them in the Staro Sajmiste detention camp. (state.gov)
Nazi authorities seized Jewish property beginning in May 1941, shortly after they invaded Yugoslavia. (state.gov)
As of April 2019, property returned to the Jewish communities under the 2006 law includes 8,719 square meters (93,850 square feet) of "objects" (buildings), 28 hectares (70 acres) of agricultural land, and 2.3 hectares (5.6 acres) of unbuilt land. (state.gov)
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During this time there were 8,000 Jews in Semiatych. (jewishgen.org)
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But in 1942 these last escape routes disappeared at the very time when the Germans began to deport Jews from western Europe to the Nazi killing centers in the east. (ushmm.org)
Deportations resumed at the beginning of the summer of 1942, affecting 4,200 Jews from Chernovtsy and 450 from Dorohoi. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
A third series of deportations from Old Romania came in July 1942 affecting Jews who had evaded the forced labor decrees, as well as their families, Communist sympathizers, and Bessarabian Jews who had been in Old Romania and Transylvania during the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia in June 1940, and had asked to be repatriated to their homes. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Between March and May 1942, German security police killed about 6,280 persons, including virtually all of the camp's remaining Jews who were mostly women and children, using a mobile gas van sent from Berlin. (state.gov)
Palestine3
The mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, demanded independence, the annulment of the Balfour Declaration and the removal of all Jews from then-Palestine. (israelnationalnews.com)
The mufti then restarted the "revolt" he had begun in 1936 with pogroms against the Jews of Palestine. (israelnationalnews.com)
SS Obersturmbannfuhrer Walter Rauff had been assigned to exterminate the Jews of Africa and Palestine, but Germany was defeated before the genocidal plan could be carried out. (israelnationalnews.com)
Lithuania2
I left Lithuania on May 5 or 6, 1941. (keidaner.com)
I returned to the hotel with the baby and a note from the doctor saying I should not be moved, because they wanted to repatriate me to Lithuania. (keidaner.com)
Nazi3
Passengers underwent experiences similar to those of other Jews in Nazi-occupied western Europe. (ushmm.org)
In April 1941, Nazi Germany established a military occupation administration in Serbia. (state.gov)
During the summer of 1941, Nazi military and police authorities interned most Jews and Roma in five detention camps. (state.gov)
America1
Through World War II, Welles would be appointed the goodwill ambassador to Latin America and upon returning would begin working on a war bond drive entitled, "I Pledge America. (poudrepress.com)
Czechoslovakia1
Prior to World War II, the total number of Jews throughout the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was approximately 78,000, including 4,000 stateless Jews from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. (state.gov)
Persons1
None of the persons who alleged mistreatment was allowed to make a phone call or to contact a lawyer during their initial questioning by the police. (state.gov)
Concentration camp1
All 48,000 Jews in the Bogdanovka concentration camp were murdered by Ukrainian police and local German members of the SS and Sonderkommando R, on the initiative of Fleischer, the German adviser to the district commander. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Germany6
her husband Berthold Walter tries to establish a business there without success and decides to return to Germany. (holocaustresearchproject.net)
His next challenge was to extend his two-week visa beyond the looming November 9 deadline, which would have condemned him to return to Germany. (timesofisrael.com)
Of the 620 passengers who returned to continent, 532 were trapped when Germany conquered Western Europe. (ushmm.org)
When the St. Louis returned to Europe, the Seligmann family (Siegfried, Alma, and daughter Ursula), originally from Ronnenberg, near Hannover in Germany, settled in Brussels to await their US visas. (ushmm.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)
After that January day, things began to get slowly worse for Jews and other minorities in Germany. (bbsradio.com)
Yugoslavia1
After being liberated by the Allies at the end of the war, he chose not to return to Yugoslavia (which became a Socialist republic after the war). (wikipedia.org)
The death of 6 million Jews and 5 million others in those camps. (bbsradio.com)
Town2
Not only did the Soviet authorities confiscate the stores and factories, but they exiled the biggest merchants and manufacturers - mostly Jews - from the town. (jewishgen.org)
Golden and her sister, mother and father were lined up with Jews from across the town and marched to the police courtyard. (jweekly.com)
Security2
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)
After these murders, the commander of the Security and Police and Gestapo in Serbia cabled to Berlin that Serbia was Judenfrei or "free of Jews. (state.gov)
York1
Her pioneering film As If It Were Yesterday and her vision of a coming together of hidden children resulted in the first International Gathering of the Hidden Child in New York in May, 1991, an extraordinary event, that allowed hidden children to meet, share their stories, and have a voice. (bj.org)
After serving in the U.S. Navy in World War I, he returned to his native land for a visit - and married a local woman. (jweekly.com)
Local1
It must also be assumed that many local Jews were apprehended while escaping and were murdered by German troops or by Einsatzkommandos. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Craftsmen's cooperatives were formed, but not all craftsmen who wanted to join were allowed membership. (jewishgen.org)
Investigation1
There were, however, complaints from nongovernmental organizations and international organizations regarding the lack of government investigation of and accountability for allegations of forced returns of asylum seekers. (state.gov)
France1
In the spring of 1941, Hedy's father was sent to another camp in France, Camp les Milles. (bbsradio.com)
Immediately1
Upon his return home, Sproston, with the help of Tottenham, immediately went to the Football Association to ask permission to invite Rolf to visit England for an England v Rest of the World match at Highbury, in North London, on October 26 of that year. (timesofisrael.com)
Homes1
From 1947-1949 Arab leaders, including the mufti, told the Arabs of Israel to leave their homes, promising they could return when the Jews had been wiped out. (israelnationalnews.com)
Large1
At the end of the month large numbers of Jews were dispatched to the northern part of Transnistria. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Labor1
The Romanian general staff submitted an additional list of 12,000 Jews who had violated the forced labor laws. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Status1
The status of the Jews in Transnistria was determined by a decree (Nov. 11, 1941) serving to follow up the Tighina Agreement, which expressly referred to the imprisonment of Jews in ghettos. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Year1
Over the following year Orson Welles would work in smaller parts at the Gate Theatre and finally return to the US after failing to get a work permit in London. (poudrepress.com)
World Wa2
More than 35,000 Jews lived in Kovno at the beginning of World War II. (bj.org)
The 2006 law regulates the return of communal religious property of churches and other religious communities in the country confiscated after March 1945, thereby excluding properties taken during World War II. (state.gov)
Father1
Though her father wanted to return to the United States, the Great Depression kept him away. (jweekly.com)
Government1
neither did the Romanian government give its consent to Germany's insistence on the deportation of all Romania's Jews. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
Write1
Each person was allowed to write one page each week. (bbsradio.com)
Mother1
Though Golden, her sister and mother were able to return to their apartment, over the next three years they were forced to sell most of their possessions - including her mother's gold teeth - to buy the food necessary to survive. (jweekly.com)
Other groups sent to Transnistria wandered about the area of Mogilev, Skazinets, and Yampol for about two weeks, before the Romanians agreed to their return. (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)