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Jewish women faced inconceivable brutality during the Holocaust that was not fully acknowledged until decades after the war. As noted above, Jewish women faced difficulties for not only being Jewish, but for being women. [8] Women were stripped of their dignity and identity through sexual assault, either directly or through murder. [7]
The Names Book is a large commemorative book listing the names and brief details about some 4,800,000 Jewish victims of the Holocaust known to Yad Vashem and documented through the Names Recovery Project, out of the total 6 million victims. The book has been published in two editions, in 2004 and a decade later.
Eva Heyman (Hungarian: Heyman Éva; 13 February 1931 – 17 October 1944) was a Jewish girl from Oradea. She began keeping a diary in 1944 during the German occupation of Hungary. Published under the name The Diary of Eva Heyman, her diary has been compared to The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. She discusses the extreme deterioration of ...
The Encyclopædia Britannica defines "Holocaust" as "the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women and children, and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II", [26] although the article goes on to say, "The Nazis also singled out the Roma (Gypsies). They were the only other group ...
Anne Frank– author of The Diary of a Young Girl; Petr Ginz; Zalman Gradowski; Eva Heyman - a 13-year-old girl who kept a diary in Nagyvárad (now called Oradea), a Hungarian part of Romania, before murdered in Aushwitz; Etty Hillesum– Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim; kept a diary in Amsterdam and in the Westerbork transit camp ...
For five years, Glick said she and her family hid in barns, attics and forests because they were Jewish. "My sister and I were staying with a Christian family that told their neighbors that we ...
The Book of Names is a large-scale commemoration book, whose pages detail the names and short biographical information about approximately 4,800,000 Jewish victims of the Holocaust known to and documented by Yad Vashem, out of a total of 5.8 million victims. The book was printed in two editions, in 2013, and a decade later.
His daughter said the wartime artifacts are now being curated and will have a permanent home at the Chabad Jewish Center in Newport Beach. Mel Mermelstein in 1986. (David Muronaka / Los Angeles Times)