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World Jewish Relief operates programmes mainly in the former Soviet Union but also in Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia. [4] It works with Jewish and non-Jewish communities. World Jewish Relief was formed in 1933 to support German Jews under Nazi rule and helped organise the Kindertransport which rescued around ten thousand German and Austrian ...
Kitchener Camp was a former military camp at Sandwich, Kent, used to house male Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. [1]Organised by the precursor of World Jewish Relief, around 4,000 mainly Austrian and German adult Jewish men received an arranged passage and were accepted for accommodation in the camp during 1939, on condition they would not be granted UK citizenship or work ...
The Central British Fund for German Jewry (now World Jewish Relief) was established in 1933 to support in whatever way possible the needs of Jews in Germany and Austria. In the United States, the Wagner–Rogers Bill was introduced in Congress , which would have increased the quota of immigrants by bringing to the U.S. a total of 20,000 refugee ...
The National Jewish Welfare Board (JWB) was formed on April 9, 1917, three days after the United States declared war on Germany, in order to support Jewish soldiers in the U.S. military during World War I. [1]
Thus, for example, the German-Jewish newspaper "Aufbau", published in New York City, printed numerous lists of Jewish Holocaust survivors located in Europe, from September 1944 until 1946. [51] Over time, many Holocaust survivor registries were established. Initially, these were paper records, but from the 1990s, an increasing number of records ...
By the early 13th century, the world Jewish population had fallen to 2 million from a peak at 8 million during the 1st century, and possibly half this number, with only 250,000 of the 2 million living in Christian lands. Many factors had devastated the Jewish population, including the Bar Kokhba revolt and the First Crusade. [citation needed]
[2]: 175–178 Another successful example of this was the encouragement of Zionism as a means of securing Jewish support for World War I via the Balfour Declaration. The Central Powers likewise tried to encourage Ukrainian, Irish, Egyptian, North African, and Indian secessionist movements, but all efforts ultimately failed.
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Herzl's 1897 article "Mauschel" Mauschel is an article written and published by Theodor Herzl in 1897. The text appeared in his newspaper, Die Welt, which was to become the principal outlet for the Zionist movement down to 1914, and was published roughly a month after the conclusion of the First ...