Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Death penalty for the rescue of Jews in occupied Poland Public announcement NOTICE Concerning: the Sheltering of Escaping Jews. There is a need for a reminder, that in accordance with Paragraph 3 of the decree of 15 October 1941, on the Limitation of Residence in General Government (page 595 of the GG Register) Jews leaving the Jewish Quarter without permission will incur the death penalty ...
Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig (born Helena Sternlicht; April 25, 1925 – December 20, 2018) was a Polish Holocaust survivor who was interned during World War II at the Płaszów concentration camp where she was forced to work as a maid for SS camp commandant Amon Göth.
American Federation for Polish Jews (formerly known as the Federation of Russian-Polish Hebrews or Federation of Polish Jews in America.) was a non-governmental organization founded in 1908 in New York, USA, as the Federation of Russian-Polish Hebrews. Publisher of The Black Book of Polish Jewry in 1943. [1]
Poland had a very large Jewish population, and, according to Norman Davies, more Jews were both killed and rescued in Poland than in any other nation: the rescue figure usually being put at between 100,000–150,000. [14] The memorial at Bełżec extermination camp commemorates 600,000 murdered Jews and 1,500 Poles who tried to save Jews.
Established on September 3, 2021, it is the first Chevra Hatzalah of NYC division in New Jersey and the New York-based organization’s first new neighborhood division to join in over 30 years. With more than 60 responders, Bergen Hatzalah uses the "BC" unit number prefix while serving 40 municipalities across Bergen County.
They were deeply resented by Polish Americans in New York and Chicago, but found a strong following in Detroit, Michigan. Orlemanski founded the Kosciusko League in Detroit in 1943 to promote American-Soviet friendship. His organization was entirely of Polish Americans and was created with the goal of expanding throughout Polonia.
A Hatzalah ambulance in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City A Hatzalah aircraft. Hatzalah (/ h ə t ˈ s ʌ l ə /; Hebrew: הַצָּלָה, lit. 'rescue, relief') is the title used by many Jewish volunteer emergency medical service (EMS) organizations serving mostly areas with Jewish communities around the world, giving medical service to patients regardless of their ...
Varian Mackey Fry (October 15, 1907 – September 13, 1967) was an American journalist. Fry ran a rescue network in Vichy France from August 1940 to September 1941 that helped 2,000 anti-Nazi and Jewish refugees, mostly artists and intellectuals, escape from persecution by Nazi Germany during World War II.