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Muehlberger had been born in Shanghai to German-Jewish refugee parents and is one of the last of the surviving former refugees. She recently received the Federal Order of Merit at Germany's Shanghai Consulate General for her efforts to preserve the history of the Shanghai Jewish refugees. Upo...
Byline: Alexander Nazaryan The diary of Kazimierz Sakowicz opens with his description of a...AlexNazaryan, Er
of Hitler’s strategy was the extermination of the Jews from throughout German-occupied Europe. Plans for the “Final Solution” were introduced around the time of the Soviet offensive, and over the next three years more than 4 million Jews would perish in the death camps established in ...
Gestapo, the political police of Nazi Germany. It ruthlessly eliminated opposition to the Nazis within Germany and its occupied territories and, in partnership with the Sicherheitsdienst (SD; ‘Security Service’), was responsible for the roundup of Jews
WWII started in Europe on September 1, 1939, when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. US President Franklin Roosevelt led the “We Can Do it” campaign urging single and married women to join the workforce. The former USSR (Russia) lost over 21 million people as war casualties. Nearly 6 million ...
Monique, was determined to preserve her heritage and reunite with her family. She secretly left her adopted parents and managed to survive in the wilderness by integrating with a pack of wolves as she wandered Europe. At least, this is the story Misha has told. But how much of it is ...
The crusades were expeditions from western Europe to bring Jerusalem and the holy places back to the hands of Christians. The mobs accompanying the first three Crusades attacked the Jews in Europe and Israel, and put many of them to death. The Jews of Jerusalem, as in other places in Israel...
Jewish Immigration to America: "Jews of the United States ... were free & prospered ... in a degree unexampled in Europe"-London Jewish Chronicle, 1862 Jewish persecution in Eastern Europe & U.S. Presidents who backed creation of the State of Israel Rasputin "The Holy Devil", Russia's...