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Yad Vashem
YAD VASHEM The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, as well as a site in Israel dedicated to commemorating the Jewish victims of Nazi persecution and extermination. Established on the authority of the 1945 London Zionist Congress, Yad Vashem (from Isaiah 56:5) includes a... Read more |
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Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler German businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-1974) saved Jews in Poland and Czechoslovakia from death at the hands of the Nazis during World War II by employing them in his factory. Oskar Schindler was the unlikeliest of heroes-indifferent to religion and politics, partial to... Read more |
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. on the National Mall, memorial to the victims of the Holocaust . Designed by architect James Ingo Freed, it opened in 1993. Using a stark, harsh architectural vocabulary of industrial forms and unadorned materials, the building itself... Read more |
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Paul Celan
Paul Celan , pseud. of Paul Antschel , 1920-70, Romanian-French poet. Although he spent his early years in Romania and his later years in France, Celan wrote in German and is widely considered the greatest postwar poet in Europe. A Jew, who lost both parents in a Nazi camp, he composed works that... Read more |
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Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel 1928-, American writer, writing in French, b. Sighet, Romania. At 16 he was imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, where his family perished. After the war, he studied at the Sorbonne. In the 1950s he was a correspondent for Israeli, American, and French... Read more |
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reparations
reparations payments or other compensation offered as an indemnity for loss or damage. Although the term is used to cover payments made to Holocaust survivors and to Japanese Americans interned during World War II in so-called relocation camps (and used as well to describe compensation sought by... Read more |
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Shtetl
Shtetl BIBLIOGRAPHY The shtetl, Yiddish for “small town” (plural shtetlekh ), was the archetypal eastern European Jewish community for over half a millennium. Moreover, it emerged during the twentieth century as a social paradigm of Jewish communal life and became the subject of... Read more |
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Judaism
Judaism A monotheistic world religion with origins in the prophetic activities of the Jews in relation to the God Yahweh. It is important to distinguish early biblical Judaism, before the fall of the Temple in 70CE, and later Judaism which was focused on the synagogue. Judaism was organized around... Read more |
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Emil L. Fackenheim
Emil Ludwig Fackenheim Liberal Jewish theologian Emil Fackenheim (born 1916) explored new horizons relating the Holocaust to Jewish theology and examining the relationships among modern philosophical issues. Emil Ludwig Fackenheim represents the odyssey of contemporary liberal Jewish... Read more |
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Gestapo
Gestapo ¦ ADRIENNE WILMOTH LERNER The Geheime Staatspolizei, or Gestapo, a German secret police force, was created in 1933 after Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. The Gestapo was created to help solidify Nazi control by identifying and arresting anti-Nazi... Read more |
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Butler, Octavia E(stelle)
...with sequels in Mind of My Mind (1977), Survivor (1978), and Wild Seed (1980). Another series...Xenogenesis trilogy, has aliens mating with the few survivors of a nuclear holocaust to repopulate earth with a better gene pool than... |
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Bikel, Theodore (Meir)
...Rope Dancers (1957), the stern Austrian Captain refuting the Nazis in The Sound of Music (1959), and the aged Holocaust survivor Gabe in The Gathering (1999). The internationally acclaimed folk singer also performed in concerts on three continents... |
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Holocaust, Shoʾah
Holocaust, Shoʾah (Heb., ‘calamity...of Jewish victims of the Holocaust, but losses are estimated...27 Nisan is kept as a Holocaust Remembrance Day (Heb...of which Wiesel was a survivor) where the search for God continues... |
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Restitution Agreement
...West Germany and Israel in which the former paid survivors of the Holocaust living in Israel 3 billion marks in compensation...agreements were reached with representatives of Jewish survivors outside Israel. On 29 June 1956, compensation... |
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Jewish Brigade
...Italy, and the North-West Europe campaign. Its members helped to smuggle out from Europe many survivors of the concentration camps and the Holocaust. It was officially disbanded in 1946, though some of its operations were taken over by the Haganah... |
 "The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA)")
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Agencies combine to provide services for Holocaust survivors.
...that is, determining the survivor's immediate needs. A survivor, for example, might require...says. Or, perhaps the survivor's utilities have been...an advisory committee of Holocaust survivors to advise Sharton on policy... |
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For mentally ill survivors, Holocaust lives on
...Israel, it's as though the Holocaust never ended. As Israel on...Jews murdered and on the survivors who built new lives in the...less is ever said about the survivors for whom mental illness is...social worker. Even among survivors with sanity intact, it ... |
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STUDENTS HONOR LOCAL HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
...Community College students will pay tribute to local Holocaust survivors on Yom Hashoah, the International Day of Holocaust...community leaders to read the names of Holocaust survivors, Holocaust survivors ... |
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STATE AIDS HOLOCAUST VICTIMS; SURVIVORS, FAMILIES TO RECEIVE INSURANCE CLAIM...
...next week to the families of Holocaust victims owed money from Nazi...should have been paid out to Holocaust victims and their heirs...companies that stole money from Holocaust victims and heirs are going...participants, including Holocaust ... |
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Holocaust Voices: An Attitudinal Survey of Survivors.(Holocaust)(Brief...
Holocaust Voices: An Attitudinal Survey of Survivors, by Alexander J. Groth...What larger meaning do survivors draw from their memories...Holocaust? The author questioned survivors about their anticipations...examines the links between ... |
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Survivors - Holocaust Stories - Resources
...report, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was the source for historical facts on the Holocaust and World War II. The museum...information Web sites Tennessee Holocaust Commission: tennesseeholocaustcommission...many Memphis area Holocaust ... |
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SAN DIEGO HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS TO SHARE THEIR PERSONAL STORIES IN HOLOCAUST...
...Diego: By Dolores Davies The Holocaust Living History Workshop...the opportunity to meet the survivors and hear their stories, as well as learn about other survivors' testimony from the USC...stories of more than 50,000 survivors of the ... |
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A Measure Of Justice For Survivors: Holocaust victims here shut out
...1997 A Measure Of Justice For Survivors: Holocaust victims here shut out in past...there are nine categories of survivors who have yet to receive German...estimated that about 110,000 survivors are still not receiving compensation... |
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STUDENTS MEET SURVIVORS OF HOLOCAUST, AND LEARN
...are about 3,000 Holocaust survivors living in Eastern...Sharon interviewed one survivor in person and another...said she learned some Holocaust survivors became more religious...t going to be many survivors around," she ... |
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Panel takes up mental health of survivors of Holocaust: Hebrew College forum...
...up mental health of survivors of Holocaust: Hebrew College forum...best help Holocaust survivors deal with their trauma...health experts and a survivor said at a local forum...Maurice Vanderpol, a Holocaust ... |
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