Authors: Martin Gilbert
The Holocaust (150 page)
Hitler Youth: established (1926),
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; shown an anti-Semitic film (1940),
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; and an ‘action’ in Lodz (1942),
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; and a death march (1945),
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; and the murder of Jews at Lübeck,
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Hlinka Guard: a Jewess in action against, killed (1944),
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Hoch (a German Jew): ‘dying’ (1943),
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Hoch, Nachum: recalls a punishment in Auschwitz,
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; recalls an attempted escape in Auschwitz, and its sequel,
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Hochberg, Aaron: killed (1941),
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Hochberg-Marianska, Maria: an eye-witness to the murder of children,
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Hochberger, Moritz: killed, trying to escape (1944),
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Hochman, Leib Michel: killed (1939),
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Hochshild, Don Mauricio: and release of Jews (1937),
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Hoengen: the
Kristallnacht
(1938) in,
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Hoess, Rudolf: commandant of Auschwitz,
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; and a massacre at Budy (1942),
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; asked for human hair (1943),
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; and medical experiments,
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; and a Jewish act of defiance,
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; and a reprisal,
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Hoessler, SS Lieutenant Franz: and the death of Jacob Edelstein,
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Höfle, SS Major Hermann: in charge of deportations from Warsaw (1942),
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Hohlfelder, Professor: and medical experiments,
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Hoichbaum, Hersh Getzel: commits suicide (1942),
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Holender, Yankel: and the day of liberation,
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Hollaender, Gerta: recalls an ‘action’,
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Holland: Jews find refuge in,
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,
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; occupied by Germany,
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; Jewish refugees trapped in,
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; a deportation from (1941),
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; and the ‘final solution’,
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; Jews deported to Sobibor from (1942),
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; Jews deported from, on the river Bug,
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; Jews deported to Auschwitz from,
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; a Jew from, at Sobibor, and a reprisal,
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; Jews from, in a Warsaw labour camp,
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; a painter from, killed at Sobibor,
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; a Jewish girl from Germany, in hiding in,
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; Jews from, in transit,
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; western allies advance towards,
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; final deportees from Auschwitz to,
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; a German Catholic rescues some Jews from,
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Hollender, Albert: recalls a deportation to Auschwitz,
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Holzer, Isaac: deported to Auschwitz (1940),
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Home Army: a member of, witnesses a round-up of Jews,
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; members of, kill Jews,
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,
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; offers to rescue Jewish underground leaders,
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Homosexuals: sent to concentration camps (1933),
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; murdered at Mauthausen,
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; the death toll of,
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Hong Kong:
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Hook of Holland: Jews leave (1938),
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; (1939),
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Horbacki, Wladyslaw: shelters two Jewish women,
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Horodenka: mass murder at (1941),
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,
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n.
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; Jews deported to Belzec from (1941),
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Horodzei: mass murder at (1942),
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Horowicz, Irena: murdered with her child (1943),
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Horowitz (a dancer): her act of defiance,
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Horthy, Admiral: Hitler urges deportation of Jews at meeting with (17 April 1943),
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; Hitler again urges deportation of Jews on (18 March 1944),
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; agrees to halt deportations (7 July 1944),
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; his promises overtaken by events (15
October 1944),
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Hoshana Rabba (the Great Prayer): a day of judgement, and of massacre (1941),
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Hoszcza: Jews given refuge in,
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Hoter-Yishai, Aharon: recalls death of survivors (1945),
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Hrubieszow: a deportation from (1939),
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; a further deportation from (1942),
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; Jews seek safety near (1943),
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Hungary:
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; anti-Jewish legislation in
(1938),
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; Jews seek refuge in (1938),
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and (1939),
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and (1940),
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; Jews of (1941),
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; mass murder of Jews from (at Kamenets Podolsk, 1941),
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; Jews of (1942),
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; and the ‘final solution’,
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; and the murder of Jews in Yugoslavia,
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; fate of a Jewess from,
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; and the German wish for deportations from,
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; a citizen of, deported from Belgium to Auschwitz,
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; sends Jews to forced labour (February 1943),
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; Jews not being deported from (1943),
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; Hitler urges, in vain, deportation of Jews from (17 April 1943),
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; and a German propaganda proposal,
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; the deportation of the Jews of, planned and begun,
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; continued deportations from,
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; medical experiments on Jews from (1944),
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; deportations from, halted,
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; Jewish deportees from Rome reach,
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; Jews from, in a labour camp in Warsaw,
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; Jews from, sent from Auschwitz to factories near Berlin,
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; fate of boys from, at Auschwitz,
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; Jews once more at risk in (October 1944),
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; Jews from, killed in Warsaw (October 1944),
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; a German Catholic rescues some Jews from (1945),
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; guards from, at Belsen,
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Huppert, Heinrich: deported from Finland to Auschwitz,
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‘Hurrah’: a signal for revolt,
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,
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Huttenbach, Henry R.: and courage,
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Ijmuiden: Jews reach, on way to safety (1940),
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Imber, S.J.: deported,
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Inotest: and a death train (1941),
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International Red Cross: its protest,
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; seeks to protect Jews in Budapest,
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,
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; takes over Theresienstadt after SS flee,
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‘Internationale’: sung on the way to death,
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Ipp, Dr. Tania: saved,
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Irish Republic: fate of Jews in, discussed,
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Iron Gates: Jews reach (1939),
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Iron Guard: and anti-Jewish violence in Rumania,
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Irrman (an SS-man): at Belzec,
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Isaac, Rabbi: an act of defiance by,
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Israel: Jews refused permission to emigrate to,
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; trees planted in the ‘Avenue of the Righteous’ in,
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; the survivor of a ‘Blobel Commando’ reaches,
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; re-union of twins at (1984),
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; President of, formerly with the British troops who entered Belsen,
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Israel, Wilfrid:
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; reports on concentration camps (1938),
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; warns of reprisals (1938),
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Issaszeg: a death march through (1944),
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Istanbul: a Jewess saved at (1942),
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; fate of a Jew born in,
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; Jews allowed to land at (1943),
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; a Jewess born in, deported from Italy (1944),
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; an emissary from Eichmann at,
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Italian Front (1915): fate of a former soldier on,
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Italy:
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; Jews of, listed,
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; and the Jews of Croatia,
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; Jews of, not deported,
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; protects Jews,
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; Germans deport Jews from (1943),
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; further deportations from (1944),
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; Jews sent to safety in,
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Iwje: mass murder at (1942),
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Izbica Kujawska: fate of the Jews of (1942),
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; Jews from, at Chelmno,
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; mass murder of Jews from (14 January 1942),
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Izbica Lubelska: deportations to Belzec through (1942),
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Izbizki, Haim Reuben: at Chelmno,
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Izieu (France): Jewish children deported from, to their deaths,
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Izraelit (a tailor): saves himself,
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Izykson, Joshua: shot (1942),
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Jablonica: Jews drowned in (1941),
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Jacob, Max: dies at Drancy (1944),
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Jacobi, Dr: and the deportation of Jews by rail,
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Jachowicz, Josef: a Jewish child entrusted to,
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Jacobi, Harry: rescued from Holland (1940),
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Jaeckeln, SS Lieutenant-General Franz: promises ‘liquidation’ of
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,000 Jews (1941),
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Jaeger, SS Colonel Karl: reports on fate of Lithuanian Jewry (1941),
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Jaffa: riots in (1933),
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; nine Jews killed in (1936),
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Jajinci: Jews shot at (1941),
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Jakobowitz (‘a healthy and strong man’): shot (1942),
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Jakubowicz, Jehuda: at Chelmno,
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Jakubowski, Zalman: at Chelmno,
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Jamniak, Sure: shot (1942),
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Jan, J. von: his courageous sermon (1938),
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Jankelewicz, Chaim: commits suicide (1943),
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Jankowski, Stanislaw: recalls two acts of defiance at Birkenau,
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; recalls (under his original name, Alter Feinsilber), the deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz-Birkenau,
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Janover, Hillel: shot (1941),
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Janowska Camp (Lvov): sadism at (1942),
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; death of a Jew at (1942),
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; and a massive reprisal (1943),
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; and the digging up and burning of corpses,
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; and the fall of Mussolini,
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; the fate of twenty-four girls at,
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; continued killings in,
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; revolt at,
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Japan: Jews find refuge in (1940),
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; attacks the United States (1941),
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Jasenovac: murders at,
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; revolt at (1945),
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Jasiolka river: bones thrown into (1943),
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Jasionowka: a round-up in (1943),
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Jassy (Iasi): massacre at (1941),
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; death trains from,
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Jawiszowice: a labour camp at,
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Jaworow: Jews tormented in (1942),
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; Jews deported to Belzec from,
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Jedwabne: mass murder at (1941),
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Jehovah’s Witnesses: murdered at Mauthausen,
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Jejkowice: Jews shot at (1945),
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Jerusalem: Jews exhorted to go to (1933),
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; Arab protests in (1933),
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; and the city of Worms,
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; Chelmno gassings recalled in,
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; Roman siege of, recalled in Warsaw,
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; fate of a Jew born in,
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; a massacre (of 1942) described in (in 1961),
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; information about German intentions reaches,
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; and Marseilles,
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; of Lithuania, destroyed,
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; trees planted in the ‘Avenue of the Righteous’ in,
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; a funeral in, of a Catholic who saved Jews,
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; survivors gather in (1981),
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; a child’s shoe from Treblinka on display in,
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Jesus: abused as a Jew (1934),
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; his ‘non-Aryan’ followers,
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; and the
Kristallnacht
in Baden Baden (1938),
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; and the fate of a young Jew at Ejszyszki (1941),
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Jew Suss:
a film suffused with hatred (1940),
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Jewish Brigade: a soldier from, recalls fate of the survivors at Dachau and Belsen,
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Jewish Chronicle:
Churchill’s message to (1941),
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Jewish Councils: established (1939),
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; in Warsaw,
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; in Piotrkow,
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; in Wlodawa,
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; in Szczebrzeszyn,
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; in Lodz,
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; in East Upper Silesia,
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; in German-occupied Russia,
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; at Dubossary,
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; at Kovno,
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; at Vilna,
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; at Stanislawow,
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; at Kalisz,
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; in Minsk,
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; at Kleck,
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; at Nowogrodek,
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; in Bialystok,
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,
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,
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; at Izbica Kujawska,
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; at Brailov,
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; at Baranowicze,
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; at Zdunska Wola,
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; at Drohobycz,
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; at Jaworow,
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; at Bilgoraj,
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; at Dambrowa (Silesia),
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; at Markuszow,
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; at Iwje,
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; at Zdzieciol,
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; in Ozorkow,
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; in Cracow,
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; at Pilica,
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; in Holland,
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; at Molczadz,
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; at Nieswiez,
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; at Szarkowszczyzna,
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; in Minsk,
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; at Zwierzyniec,
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; at Krzemieniec,
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; at Wlodzimierz Wolynski,
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,
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; at Lachwa,
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; at Tuczyn,
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; at Korzec,
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; at Serniki,
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; at Kaluszyn,
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; in Siemiatycze,
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; at Marcinkance,
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; at Zloczow,
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; from Zamosc (at Belzec),
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; at Turobin,
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; of Opoczno,
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; in Radomsko,
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; at Lomza,
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; at Lvov,
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; in Bialystok,
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; at Khmielnik,
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; at Sosnowiec,
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; in Siauliai,
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; in Theresienstadt,
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; in Budapest,
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