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The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, a nonprofit organization that helps Holocaust victims seek compensation, released an eight-country survey last week showing that 46% of ...
Head Rabbi of Jewish Municipality of Zagreb, catechist, translator, writer and spiritual leader, educated in law and theology science. On last transport of Jews from Croatia. Killed at camp entrance when he protested against the inhumane procedure that was implemented against the members of his community. Kurt Gerron: May 11, 1897: October 28 ...
Every Person Has a Name or Everyone Has a Name (he:לכל איש יש שם) is Yad Vashem's commemoration project to document the names of those killed in the Holocaust. The project's goal is to commemorate the victims individually, ensuring that at the very least the names of the millions of Jews murdered in the Holocaust are recorded.
Jewish: killed at a forced labor camp in Chernihiv, Ukraine Bronisław Czech: 1908–1944: Polish: skier: Olympian Polish resistance movement in World War II: Auschwitz: Roman Kantor: 1912–1943: Polish: fencer; Olympian Jewish: Majdanek concentration camp: Józef Klotz: 1900–1941: Polish: Polish national soccer team Jewish: killed in the ...
Victim No. 1 and his wife eventually left Pennsylvania and moved to Broward County, Fla. Victim No. 1, however, did not change his cell number, wishing to keep ties with the Pittsburgh community ...
The story was of how Towers' infantry division came upon a Nazi 'death train' full of 2,500 Holocaust victims stranded near the German city of Magdeburg on April 13, 1945, and liberated them ...
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum gives a broader definition of Holocaust survivors: "The Museum honors any persons as survivors, Jewish or non-Jewish, who were displaced, persecuted, or discriminated against due to the racial, religious, ethnic, social, and political policies of the Nazis and their collaborators between 1933 and 1945.
Nicholas Winton remained guarded about his work during the Holocaust, and it was only after his wife discovered a notebook of his work in 1988 did the world learn of his brave wartime efforts.