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The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321 CE, [ 2][ 3] and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages ( circa 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish community. The community survived under Charlemagne, but suffered during the Crusades.
Josef Ganz, car designer [ 388] Siegfried Marcus, car designer. Edmund Rumpler, Austro-German car designer. Jacqueline Van Maarsen, author and best friend of diarist Anne Frank. Hanneli Goslar, friend of diarist Anne Frank and holocaust survivor. Sanne Ledermann, friend of diarist Anne frank and holocaust victim.
Nazi German photographers of the Holocaust who acted in their official capacity include Bernhard Walter [ de], Friedrich Franz Bauer, Franz Wolf, Albert Rum [ de] and Franz Suchomel. [ 5] The destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto was methodically documented in the well-illustrated Stroop Report. [ 10] Some photographs were taken by the camp ...
The Holocaust of the Jewish people (from the Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston): holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt"), also known as Ha-Shoah (Hebrew: השואה), or Churben (Yiddish: חורבן), as described in June 2013 at Auschwitz by Avner Shalev (Director of Yad Vashem) is the term generally used to describe the murder of ...
The history of the Jews in Alsace is one of the oldest in Europe. It was first attested to in 1165 by Benjamin of Tudela, who wrote about a "large number of learned men" in "Astransbourg"; [ 1] and it is assumed that it dates back to around the year 1000. [ 2] Although Jewish life in Alsace was often disrupted by outbreaks of pogroms, at least ...
When Berlin Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal first talked about his dream of building Germany’s biggest Jewish educational and cultural complex since the Holocaust, most people who heard about the plan ...
t. e. The history of the Jews during World War II is almost synonymous with the persecution and murder of Jews which was committed on an unprecedented scale in Europe and European North Africa (pro-Nazi Vichy-North Africa and Italian Libya ). The massive scale of the Holocaust which happened during World War II greatly affected the Jewish ...
Tombstone of Zalmen Berger (d. 1915), a Jewish soldier who fell while serving in the German army during World War I, Jarosław, Poland. Feldrabbiner Aaron Tänzer during World War I, with the ribbon of the Iron Cross and a Star of David, 1917 Fritz Beckhardt in his Siemens-Schuckert D.III fighter of Jasta 26; the reversed swastika insignia was a good luck symbol.