• 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)
  • Rabkin and her brother engineered an escape and, aided by Jewish relief workers, made their way back to Kraków and eventually to England as part of a group of displaced children. (jweekly.com)
  • Already in 1896 the "revolutionary/anarchist" faction under Nieuwenhuis, which stood very much in the insurrectionary tradition of the early Amsterdam prole revolts, split off and left parliamentarism altogether while the remainder of the party, again strongly dominated by often Jewish, German born, higher skilled workers, would eventually form the Sociaal Democratische Arbeids Partij (SDAP). (libcom.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)
  • We even have information about highly qualified Jewish workers who were allowed to return home. (ukrainianjewishencounter.org)
  • Many Jews resisted, but of most of them we know very little," said the Jewish filmmaker Willy Lindwer, who has produced several documentaries on the Holocaust in his native Netherlands. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Similarly the Jewish dominated Labour Party won the 1923 General Election on an anti-Protection ticket - i.e. they did not want British Industries and British Mines protected against Jew-financed cheap foreign goods and coal). (katana17.com)
  • Since Žanis's duties included transporting the Jewish workers, at the end of the day he was supposed to take them back to the ghetto, putting his signature under the number of people returning in a guard's register. (lipke.lv)
  • More than 20,000 Jewish refugees fled to Bolivia between 1938 and 1941. (listverse.com)
  • Hundreds of women protected their fellow Jews, especially Jewish children, from the Nazis. (jwa.org)
  • In this respect, French-born Jews, most of whom belonged to the middle class, were no different from their non-Jewish counterparts. (jwa.org)
  • The national organizations, such as the communities' umbrella organization, the Federation and ORT, opened new main offices in one of the large cities of the southern region (Marseilles, Lyon and so on).The leaders of the Jewish Scouts movement showed initiative, establishing branches in every community where there was a relatively large concentration of Jews. (jwa.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)
  • 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)
  • However, the Jews of Eastern Europe often spoke in Yiddish, which originated amongst the Jewish population of Germany in medieval times and was based mainly on German. (fatemag.com)
  • Almost immediately upon assuming the Chancellorship of Germany, Hitler began pushing legal actions against Germany's Jews. (kirbymuseum.org)
  • By 1906, Ruzhyn's population consisted of Ukrainians, Poles and Jews and surpassed 4,000 residents. (wikipedia.org)
  • I remember that they brought them, slain, to the Polish hospital on Posbiontny Street, and all Augustow, the Poles and the Jews, went to see slain German pilots. (jewishgen.org)
  • At the time, between three hundred and five hundred laborers, Jews as well as Poles, worked here. (ukrainianjewishencounter.org)
  • There was a courtyard and an outbuilding, there was a bakery downstairs and both Jews and Poles lived there. (centropa.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • only 1,000 of Lvov's 200,000 Jews survived. (jweekly.com)
  • Rich Jews lived in a different district and poor Jews lived in Baluty [district] in Lodz. (centropa.org)
  • On October 10, 1941, when Zdenka was just two and a half years old, her father was deported to the Lodz ghetto. (ushmm.org)
  • At Birkenau, unlike Auschwitz, Jews were permitted in the orchestra in 1942 in the men's camp. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • 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)
  • At Auschwitz, in the winter of 1941, a prisoner orchestra was started, conducted by Franz Nierychlo, who was also a kitchen kapo. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • Under the Vichy regime, the Les Milles camp held foreign Jews before emigration or, in most cases, deportation to German concentration camps and killing centers. (ushmm.org)
  • More than 35,000 Jews lived in Kovno at the beginning of World War II. (bj.org)
  • By September 1939, over half of German Jews had emigrated. (ushmm.org)
  • Their failure to return to the United States in 1939, and the discovery that Stein translated and wrote an introduction to a book of speeches by Marshal Pétain, has raised questions about her politics. (jacket2.org)
  • During the time of Hitler's rise to power and the ensuing Holocaust, Jews and other targeted people faced oppression, deportation, and death. (listverse.com)
  • They were all sent to the Drancy internment camp in 1941. (convoi77.org)
  • When Montluc was "cleared of Jews", he was sent to Drancy again, on July 15, 1944, along with one of his sisters and his Resistance group. (convoi77.org)
  • D uring the German occupation, the residents of Rue Lhomond in Paris' 5th arrondissement noticed a black silhouette that, several times a week from 1941-1944, would glide on his bicycle through the deserted streets of the capital, a saddlebag full to bursting firmly fixed to the carrier. (clairval.com)
  • They soon expanded to a hundred members, which included professional Polish musicians but excluded Jews until 1944. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • Axis -aligned Romania recaptured the region in 1941 with the success of Operation München during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union , but lost it in 1944 as the tide of war turned. (wikipedia.org)
  • Periodically Faÿ reported to Stein on the safety of her collection (Stein did not return to Paris again until December 1944. (jacket2.org)
  • Returning from Bordeaux (we have no information on what she did during her stay there), she stopped in Lyon to see the American Consul. (jacket2.org)
  • Judenstern badge worn by Hans Finke, a concentration camp survivor who became an aid worker after the war. (ushmm.org)
  • These raids, which usually took place at night, were being implemented by German soldiers and used to move Jews from the ghettos to concentration camps. (holocaustcenter.org)
  • But amid "the arguing, misery and work," as she described it, the couple made discoveries whose significance they realized only months later: During the Holocaust, their new home had been the center for one of Holland's most daring rescue operations conducted by Jews for Jews. (timesofisrael.com)
  • Mauricio Hochschild was largely responsible for the number of visas issued to Jews fleeing the Holocaust. (listverse.com)
  • In 1940, after securing the assent of Nazi Germany through the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact , the Soviet Union pressured Romania, under threat of war, [3] into withdrawing from Bessarabia, allowing the Red Army to enter and the Soviet Union to annex the region . (wikipedia.org)
  • One of the most significant examples of Nazi violence against the Jews in Germany and Austria before the war has lacked a cinematic record, that is an immediate filmed confirmation of the events. (usc.edu)
  • After the Germans invaded France, the family left Paris for St Maxime, but later returned to Paris. (convoi77.org)
  • Lipkany also had refugees from Ukraine and Jews from nearby villages who came to settle there. (jewishgen.org)
  • In these places, refugees were allowed to worship freely and conduct business. (listverse.com)
  • During that period approximately 120,000 Jews, including the members of the leadership, fled from the north and became refugees in the south. (jwa.org)
  • The orchestra played at the gate when the prison workers went out, and again when they came back. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • This situation was favorable for Lipke to gradually and purposefully carry out the mission that involved saving the Jews from persecution by the occupation regime. (lipke.lv)
  • The truth was entirely different: Franz was financially supporting German fugitives, including some Jews. (clairval.com)
  • His interest in Britain returned the German way between the two people of his database, as it has in this far done History by his breast, Merilyn Moos. (claygrl.com)
  • In addition, he owned a yacht, which was confiscated by the German army in 1941. (lipke.lv)
  • By 1935, the Nuremberg Laws deprived Jews of German citizenship. (kirbymuseum.org)
  • By 1936, Jews were prohibited from participation in parliamentary elections and signs reading "Jews Not Welcome" appeared in many German cities. (kirbymuseum.org)
  • In the 18th century, German-speaking (Ashkenazi) Jews arrived in Hungary, primarily from Czech and German territories. (rabbiscer.org)
  • Whereas in the first months of the ghetto's existence security was relatively lax, Žanis managed to put his carefully thought out plan into action and spare several Jews a return to the ghetto. (lipke.lv)
  • Q. Was this ghetto together for you and for the Jews of Minsk? (nizkor.org)
  • Ruzhyn's history is that of Ukraine, as a whole: founding of Kyivan Rus in 885 by prince Oleg occupation by the Mongol Golden Horde in the mid-13th century occupation by Lithuanian nobles from 1398-1449 the "Independence War" against Poland, led by Bogdan Chmielnitski from 1648-57, in which tens of thousands of Jews were massacred Polish noblemen began to wield influence in the western Ukraine. (wikipedia.org)
  • It will also be remembered that Churchill, who proudly boasts that he has always been the constant architect of the Jews' future, returned Britain to the gold standard in 1925, which led to the ghastly slump of 1929/1931. (katana17.com)
  • As after me there was only one Jew left in the publishing house "Mystetstvo" before 1967! (centropa.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)
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  • They obtained a forty-eight hour pass to return to Paris to collect their passports, to gather winter clothing, to arrange for bank transfers, and to secure the paintings in their apartment at 5 rue Christine. (jacket2.org)
  • In the winter of 1941-42, the camp experienced its first great crisis: a typhus epidemic that killed nearly three hundred prisoners. (ukrainianjewishencounter.org)
  • I heard the word "zhyd" for the first time in Moscow on 28 June 1941, but then I, almost a twelve year old girl, didn't know what it meant. (centropa.org)
  • It took him a year to talk the parents of the 17-year-old Johanna into allowing her to marry him. (lipke.lv)
  • The turning point in the history of the camp came at the beginning of October 1941. (ukrainianjewishencounter.org)
  • We know that on 1 November 1941 a sign was affixed to the camp gates announcing that this was the Lemberg forced labor camp, subordinated to the SS and the police of the District of Galicia. (ukrainianjewishencounter.org)
  • By "ramp", Samuel is referring to the train platform at Treblinka onto which Jews from all over Poland and a number of additional countries, as well as about 2,000 Sinti and Roma, disembarked from the cattlecars and entered the camp to be exterminated. (yadvashem.org)
  • After returning to Germany, Franz organized annual pilgrimages and trips to France. (clairval.com)
  • In 1941, before the war, when I was twelve, I still lived a life in books (we had lots of books at our home in Kiev), records, a record-player and a wireless that we had brought from Germany (this was a rarity), and in the music that was constantly played at home. (centropa.org)
  • 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)
  • When the war ended, the couple refused to allow the children to return to Kraków in search of relatives. (jweekly.com)
  • There's a custom among Jews that children are named after the dead, not after the living [relatives]. (centropa.org)
  • Most of the Jews of Lipkany made their living by trading, mainly with farmers from surrounding areas and as craftsmen. (jewishgen.org)
  • Know that your rights, like those of all the peoples of Russia are under the powerful safeguard of the revolution and its organs, the soviets of workers, soldiers, and peasants. (wsws.org)
  • His father was a factory worker in this industrial region of the Ruhr. (clairval.com)
  • A worker for peace, Father Stock was nevertheless not a «citizen of the world,» indifferent to his homeland. (clairval.com)
  • Hearing rumors that Jews were being murdered en masse, Rabkin's father came up with a plan to save his daughter and her brother. (jweekly.com)
  • The father, Georg Koch, was not a Jew. (stolpersteine-hamburg.de)
  • This extra mark exempted her father, mother, and older sister from the work duties required of other Jews. (holocaustcenter.org)
  • At the end of 1941, his father was arrested and all the young men were taken away. (convoi77.org)
  • Dutch politics remained dominated by the bourgeois religious and liberal parties with the socialist workers movement in opposition. (libcom.org)
  • By 1938, Hitler's regime had driven hundreds of thousands of Jews from their homes and countries. (listverse.com)
  • Hundreds of thousands of Hungarian-speaking Jews lived in territories in the neighboring countries that had once been under Hungarian rule. (rabbiscer.org)
  • In a 1919 pogrom, Jews were robbed and beaten, and a large tribute was exacted from the community. (wikipedia.org)
  • Indeed, one of the first acts of the new regime was to abolish a 2012 law allowing the official use of Russian and other minority languages. (icl-fi.org)
  • According to various data, 160,000 Jews were living in Lviv at the time. (ukrainianjewishencounter.org)
  • In 1941, she defied Gestapo orders to be sterilized and was three months pregnant with twins by the time she was called in for the procedure. (ushmm.org)
  • The 19th century was for many Jews a time of assimilation and emancipation. (rabbiscer.org)
  • At the beginning of 1919, Žanis became one of the riflemen and six months later he joined the Latgale Artillery Regiment, returning to Riga in March of 1920. (lipke.lv)
  • The orchestra marched with other prisoners to and from work, in good weather and bad, though eventually they were allowed indoors in rain and snow. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • They could return home after work. (ukrainianjewishencounter.org)
  • Mr. Heckler's trucks, according to Fairfax County police, were en gaged in construction work. (loc.gov)
  • Žanis managed to quickly earn the trust of his superiors and was put in charge of arranging for the Jews to get to and from work. (lipke.lv)
  • Trade is good, but "free trade" doesn't work for farmers or workers or most everyone else. (counterpunch.org)
  • They were dispersed throughout hundreds of communities where Jews had never before lived. (jwa.org)
  • The village was settled in the second half of the 17th century when a family of local aristocrats- the Lapchinskys- invited Jews to settle there. (jewishgen.org)
  • Of the entire family, only one aunt returned from the camps. (holocaustcenter.org)
  • However, from the 1830s, poorer eastern European Jews began moving to the country in greater numbers. (rabbiscer.org)
  • He became aware of this when, as he was sorting the possessions of Jews in the sorting yard at Treblinka, he found a small brown coat that had belonged to his little sister, Tamara, who was five years old. (yadvashem.org)
  • but some-like me-were incredibly fortunate to be returned to our surviving parents. (bj.org)
  • It is not known when Walter returned from the First World war. (stolpersteine-hamburg.de)
  • Upon his release in 1941, Dayan joined the British army, where he served with the forces that liberated Lebanon and Syria from Vichy France during World War II. (isracast.com)
  • I heard it from a Russian worker, who called me this way, so I immediately ran to my grandmother to ask her what it meant and who I was. (centropa.org)
  • 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)
  • It's always good to return to the shore on sunny days. (waterfordcamino.com)
  • The group refused to disperse until the military retracted the call-up and allowed the village's other men to return from the front or from exile. (fifthestate.org)
  • The operation's secrecy kept it out of the history books even though it was a rare case in which Dutch Jews not only escaped the genocide but helped others avoid capture. (timesofisrael.com)
  • As brought, upon His coming of the page( the available personal object) at Armageddon, when Christ teaches certainly followed in the Temple on that other non-aggression, and leaves used and Once controlled as the King of the Jews, by the Jews, Moreover certainly will the demise of the history usually excel at review, and a one clearly stored since before the network air misled Eve, shall be. (claygrl.com)
  • We could actually pay workers here a fair wage and US workers could afford to buy US goods and perhaps own a home and send their kids to college. (counterpunch.org)
  • In farm country we are told these trade deals will allow us to export more goods and in so doing, increase our profits. (counterpunch.org)
  • They were helped by a group of Mr. Frank's former workers, including Miep Gies, who would remain a lifelong friend and confidante. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Russia - Jews' best friend! (katana17.com)
  • So in times of economic upheaval it was quite common for mobs of young workers to go out on the canals and attack and plunder the houses of the rich. (libcom.org)