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301. Comunitati Evreiesti din Romana
Document | Accession Number: 2015.283 | RG Number: RG-25.098M
Date:
inclusive: 1818-1940
Alternate Title:
Jewish Community of Romania
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… camps in Transnistria, Germany, and Poland, and aid activities to Jews by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, or other Jewish organizations…
302. Oral history interview with Evelyn Lowen Apte
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.166 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0166
Date:
interview: 1999 June 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family; settling in Portland, Oregon; learning English; the difficult transition to American life, especially for her mother; feeling like an outsider in…
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 … though she herself was a Jew. At about 5-6 years old, there was a march for Hitler outside her house, and it seemed so exciting that she wanted to be part…
303. Oral history interview with Mr. Toledano
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0067.4 | RG Number: RG-50.968.0003
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
304. Oral history interview with Anna Greenberger
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0035
Date:
interview: 1982 August 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
305. Selected records from the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg, Russia
Document | Accession Number: 2013.109 | RG Number: RG-22.041
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1945
inclusive: 1917-1947
…, Kiev, Odessa, distribution of parcels among Jewish schools, children's homes, individuals, medical assistance, resettlement of Jews, OZET Charter (1932…
306. General Jewish Council. Selected records.
2017.102.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.102.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1942
…The General Jewish Council (GJC), which existed from 1938-1944, was initially comprised of representatives from the American Jewish Committee…
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 … archival materials: The records of the General Jewish Council are held at the American Jewish Historical Society / Center for Jewish History, in New York…
307. Oral history interview with Ada Speyer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0094.38 | RG Number: RG-50.150.0038
Date:
interview: 1977 November 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
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 … wonderful occupation there. I had the distribution of the food ration cards under me. And at the end of the war, when the American occupation came, they…
308. Oral history interview with Edward Levant
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.18 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0018
Date:
interview: 1989 December 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… dental school in 1939; seeing the changes in Europe and the migration of Jews to the U.S.; joining the army and being placed on limited service because of…
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 … among Moslems, Christians and Jews. He predicts that Israel will end up like Ireland in the end. 1:46:58 Edward believes that the American Jewish…
309. Oral history interview with Henry Cohen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0130 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0362
Date:
interview: 1996 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--New York (State)--New York.…
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 … morning, word comes through that we've, the American forces have captured the Remagen bridge and they have sent people over it and we are put onto trucks…
310. Oral history interview with Claus Shelling
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.736 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0736
Date:
interview: 1991 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… States; his life as a young immigrant in San Francisco, CA; the discrimination he experienced as a German; his efforts to assimilate into American culture…
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 … raised by nuns. And I think the reason was in a town like [NON-ENGLISH] there very, very few Jews in the town. And I started school right at the time that…
311. US poster stamp encouraging people to donate to a humanitarian organization
2017.227.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.227.20
Date:
issue: 1944 February-1945 June 27
… Conference in New York City, bringing together 1,500 delegates. The Committee was replaced by the American League for a Free Palestine in 1945.…
312. Poster of a Jewish man controlling spiders weaving a conspiracy
2016.184.341 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.341
Date:
publication/distribution: 1941
Series Title:
Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition
Artwork Title:
ЊЕГОВО ОРУЋЕ : ДЕМОКРАТИЈА, МАСОНЕРИЈА КОМУНИЗАМ, КАПИТАЛИЗАМ
Alternate Title:
His Weapons: Democracy, Masonry, Communism, Capitalism
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
313. US poster stamp encouraging people to donate to a humanitarian organization
2017.227.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.227.28
Date:
issue: 1944 May-1945 June 27
designed: 1943
… Conference in New York City, bringing together 1,500 delegates. The Committee was replaced by the American League for a Free Palestine in 1945.…
314. US poster stamp encouraging people to donate to a humanitarian organization
2017.227.38 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.227.38
Date:
issue: 1944 May-1945 June 27
… Conference in New York City, bringing together 1,500 delegates. The Committee was replaced by the American League for a Free Palestine in 1945.…
315. Jagiellonian University collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.278 | RG Number: RG-15.245
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1957
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…American Federation for Polish Jews…
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 … Społeczna. Corporate Name American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. Corporate Name American Federation of Polish Jews New York. http://collections…
316. Oral history interview with Mary Ackos Calof and Evelyn Ackos Ettinger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.7 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0007
Date:
interview: 1987 January 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Institute and the American Jewish Service; staying in an orphanage (“Herzl Camp”) immediately after the war in Greece; their mother; building their lives in…
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 … that something was going to happen to us as Jews, and what was happening in the war, she had told Aunt Esther that if ever you need help, you and your…
317. Oral history interview with Alice Barzilay
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.3.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0218
Date:
interview: 2014 January 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
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 … neighborhood a mixed neighborhood 51 00:02:34,710 --> 00:02:37,770 of Jews and non-Jews? 52 00:02:37,770 --> 00:02:41,030 Many Jews and some non-Jews. 53 00:02…
318. Oral history interview with Chayale Ash-Fuhrman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.30 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0030
Date:
interview: 1981 September 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… with the locals and the onset of hatred for Jews; her father dying of dysentery in 1942; using her training from professional school and joining a sewing…
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 … cooperative. She describes the difficulties of adapting to the Russian way of getting along; relations with the locals, and the onset of hatred for Jews. Her…
319. Oral history interview with Gerald Liebenau
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.213.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0670
Date:
interview: 2012 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… peaceful childhood until Jews were no longer allowed to attend public schools in 1936; his family’s move to the Haberlandstrasse section of Berlin; his…
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 … 00:08:28,410 --> 00:08:30,840 may be more Jews than not. 159 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:37,020 There was a Jewish textile section 160 00:08:37,020 --> 00…
320. AG "Saloniki-Palästina", Saloniki (Fond 1437)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.42 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.42
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1941
Alternate Title:
Salonika-Palestine Corporation
…Correspondence with banks and manufacture companies, including with the Jewish Colonial Bank in London, American Jewish Joint Distributions Committee…
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 …. Jewish Agency for Palestine--History. Ionian Bank, ltd., London. American Jewish Joint Distributions Committee. Anglo-Palestine Bank. Jews--Greece…
321. Records of the Jerusalem Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
Document | Accession Number: 2019.6.1 | RG Number: RG-68.217M
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1952
…Records of the Jerusalem Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
322. Oral history interview with Frederick Wertheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.874 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0874
Date:
interview: 1999 April 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kristallnacht; attempting to retain Jewish traditions on Shabbat; immigrating to the United States; adjusting to American life; not being allowed in the army due…
323. The future of European Jewry
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Film | Accession Number: 2000.621.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2616 | Film ID: 2311
Film Title:
The Future Can Be Theirs
Date:
Production: 1948
Duration:
00:19:43
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…This film can be licensed from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) Archives (archives@jdc.org).…
324. Pamphlet
2016.184.669 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.669
Date:
publication: approximately 1969
Title:
Who brought the slaves to America
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…African Americans--Relations with Jews--History.…
325. Oral history interview with Helene Barricks
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.125.23 | RG Number: RG-90.057.0023
Date:
interview: 1991 April 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Education.…
326. Oral history interview with Maria Mandel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2002.369 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0157
Date:
interview: 2002 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
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 …. The family lived in Czarnikau (Czarnkow). When the Jews were assembled to be deported, Maria’s father hid the family in the grandparents’ bakery, then…
327. Jointed wooden rod puppet shaped as a Jewish man with a Star of David badge
2016.184.564 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.564
Date:
creation: approximately 1820
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Katz Ehrenthal Collection is a collection of more than 900 objects depicting Jews and antisemitic and anti-Jewish propaganda from the medieval to…
328. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.5
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
… freedoms of Jews, and boycotting their businesses. At the university, Jewish students were deemed “aliens,” and were no longer eligible to receive diplomas…
329. US poster stamp encouraging people to donate to a humanitarian organization
1990.335.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.335.6.2
Date:
issue: 1941
…American Federation for Polish Jews…
330. Oral history interview with Mel London
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0121 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0428
Date:
interview: 1996 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Identity.…
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 …. You always have your antenna out as an African-American. Well you always have your antenna out as a Jew. And so my reaction to an Albert Speer or my…
331. Oral history interview with Edward Novakoff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0409 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0044
Date:
interview: 1996 September 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--United States.…
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 … uniforms. 37 00:01:56,480 --> 00:02:00,470 And therefore he had no contact with other Jews, really. 38 00:02:00,470 --> 00:02:02,780 So he never learned…
332. Oral history interview with Arnold Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0095.90 | RG Number: RG-50.163.0090
Date:
interview: 1985 March 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Germany--Nuremberg.…
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 … York. In Nuremberg, did you have contacts with non-Jews? Well, I went into the orphanage in 1932. I was then seven and a half years old. Once in the…
333. Oral history interview with Stephen Gonczy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.21 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0021
Date:
interview: 1982 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camp; American forces disposing of the corpses around the camp; his interactions with Commanding General William W. Quinn; returning to Ludwigsburg…
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 … Team of the 1st American Army. He is a liberator. He was born in Hungary. At the time of the Liberation he was a sergeant and was a liberator of Dachau…
334. Oral history interview with Gerald Silver
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.85.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0756
Date:
interview: 2014 June 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--New York (State)--New York.…
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 … Jewish-American Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of spoken word generated with 3…
335. Oral history interview with Denise Siekieski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.67.77 | RG Number: RG-50.012.0077
Date:
interview: 1987 June 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… monetary help from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee for hiding Jews; participating in the resistance movement; immigrating to Israel after…
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 … particular sect. As she puts it, they were just people fulfilling themselves as Jews. 0.09.00 In November 1942, the Germans occupied the northern part of…
336. Papers of Jacob Pat (Fond WAG 127)
Document | Accession Number: 2009.268 | RG Number: RG-67.024M
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1978
bulk: 1944-1960
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
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 …--Speeches, addresses, etc. Chanin, Nathan, -1965. Sherer, Emanuel. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. American Labor Committee. Common Council for…
337. Oral history interview with Hanna Zeidler-Cowan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.386 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0386
Date:
interview: 1997 September 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; learning of the fates of her mother and brother after the war; her work with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the Joint) in Shanghai; her…
338. US poster stamp encouraging people to donate to a humanitarian organization
2017.227.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.227.12
Date:
issue: 1944 February-1945 June 27
designed: 1943
… the war economy. All three figures serve as inspiration for American Jews to make their own contributions to the war effort. Szyk was himself an…
339. Oral history interview with William Perl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0466 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0443
Date:
interview: 1996 September 10
interview: 1996 October 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Palestine for Jews in Vienna in 1936; the Anschluss in 1938 and the desire of many Austrian Jews to leave the country; meeting with Adolf Eichmann…
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 … ask for an American visa and this man had in San Tome' (ph), he had figures, numbers for entrance into America. Who, what Jew, ___________, a little…
340. Monogrammed tallit pouch brought with a German Jewish refugee
1990.223.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.223.1.1
Date:
received: approximately 1927
… lived in Dresden. In January 1933, Hitler came to power in Germany and established an antisemitic Nazi dictatorship that persecuted Jews. Richard and his…
341. Oral history interview with Egon J. Salmon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.215.2 | RG Number: RG-50.977.0002
Date:
interview: 2013 March
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jews in 1933; his family’s work in the textile business; how Kristallnacht was the deciding factor for their family to leave Germany; events on…
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 … Dusseldorf, Germany. He responds to questions regarding the SS St. Louis event. Life in Germany started having restrictions for Jews in 1933. His entire family…
342. Oral history interview with Paula Borenstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0067.29 | RG Number: RG-50.968.0028
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee…
343. Oral history interview with Howard Margol
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.83.5 | RG Number: RG-50.920.0005
Date:
interview: 2003 September 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jews--Florida--Jacksonville.…
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 … concentration camp of Dakau. So. Uh, I felt that here uh, uh, uh, a few weeks before we were celebrating the liberation of the Jews from Egypt and here uh, a few…
344. US poster stamp encouraging people to donate to a humanitarian organization
2017.227.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.227.23
Date:
issue: 1944 February-1945 June 27
… Conference in New York City, bringing together 1,500 delegates. The Committee was replaced by the American League for a Free Palestine in 1945.…
345. Poster of a Jewish man whipping tops with faces of Allied leaders
2016.184.357 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.357
Date:
creation: 1944-1945
Artwork Title:
Israele si Diverte
Alternate Title:
The Jew Having Fun
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The Jew Having Fun…
346. Oral history interview with Carla Chotzen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.6 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0006
Date:
interview: 1989 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the American Jewish Committee in New York; the fate of her extended family.…
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 … eight. We were not allowed to go to school anymore as Jews. And that was the first time I was really aware that I was something other than a German child…
347. Friedler family papers
1999.47.3 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1999.47.3
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1959
… British Jewish Relief Unit before joining the American Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) and becoming the Director for JDC in Upper Austria in charge of…
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 …. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Jews--Austria Linz (Austria) Salzburg (Austria) Vienna (Austria) Photographs. Drawings. CONTAINER LIST Series 1: American…
348. Oral history interview with Mordecai Hauer, Gabriel Frankel, and William Shapiro
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.95.2 | RG Number: RG-50.673.0001
Date:
interview: 2005 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… presentation given by him at the U.S. State Department; Bill Shapiro was an American soldier who was captured as a POW and taken to Berga with 349 other…
349. Volary burial of Nazi victims
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Film | Accession Number: 2004.712.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4314 | Film ID: 2741
Date:
Event: 1945 May 11
Duration:
00:08:51
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…JEWS…
350. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Sygn. 210)
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0154 | RG Number: RG-15.199M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1941
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Bauer, Y. Out of the Ashes. The Impact of American Jews on Post-Holocaust European Jewry. Oxford-Toronto, 1989. Pages 71-82, 159-169.“Midrasz”, 2004…
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 … American Jews on Post‐Holocaust European Jewry. Oxford‐ Toronto, 1989. Pages 71‐82, 159‐169.“Midrasz”, 2004, No 11 (91); USHMM Archives, RG‐ 15…