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kurt becher
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-an ss leiutenant who traded jewish lives for money.-testified against eichman.
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martin bormann
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Hitler’s personal secretary.Claimed that he was controlling
everything behind the...
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joseph goebbels
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Minister of
propaganda for Nazis. Committed suicide with his wife and six children in...
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heinrich himmler
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Head of the Gestapo, Kripo and
other police forces, SS. Oversaw extermination campswas...
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hans frank
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Bavarian Justice Minister,
governor-general of Poland in charge of mass murder (hundreds...
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olido globocnik
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High ranking Austrian Nazi,
helped partake in the deaths of millions of Jews. Died...
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herman goring
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head of the German Air Force
and Hitler’s designated successor. An original founder...
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rudolf hoss
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First commander of
Auschwitz. Implemented the final solution in Auschwitz and had millions...
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rudolf hess
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Hitler’s deputy, died from
suspicious suicide in 1987 at Spandau Prison, where he...
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julius streicher
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editor of a pornographic anti-Semitic newspaper. Truly hated Jews.
Made anti-Semitic comic...
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solomon rappoport aka S. Ansky
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scholar who documented Jewish
folklore and mystical beliefs in the early 1900’s....
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YIVO (Yiddish Scientific Institute in Vilna and NY
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Founded at a conference in Berlin, but headquartered in Vilna—a
city in Eastern...
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maurice halbwachs
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Sent from France to Buchenwald
where he died. His notion of collective memory: it...
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jewish councils aka judenrate
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-administrative bodies that the Germans
required Jews
to form in the German occupied...
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hannah arendt
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scholar was critical of Jewish councils
for selecting which Jews to have round up...
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rabbi leo baeck
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German-Polish rabbi who was a
leader in Progressive Judaism. Fought anti-Semitism...
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wannsee conference
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January of
1942 in a Berlin suburb, in which the Nazis leaders assembled to discuss...
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Dr Martin Luther
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An advisor to Foreign Minister
von Ribbentrop. In 1942, his main job was to persuade...
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vichy france
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The French puppet-state that
was controlled by Germany after France’s fall in 1940....
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werner best
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Police Chief and deputy of
Heydrich. In charge of overseeing Denmark’s civilian...
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heinrich muller
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Head of the Gestapo. Was a
huge part in the execution of the Holocaust, and rounded...
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king boris of bulgaria
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though reluctantly allied with
Hitler, Boris irritated Hitler by refusing to extradite...
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dieter wisliceny
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A Nazi who helped execute the
Final Solution. He was in charge of the ghettoization...
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alois brunner
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Eichmann’s assistant and “best
man.” Killed 140,000 Jews in Auschwitz. Became...
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ha-avara agreement
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1933 agreement that allowed German Jews emigrating to Palestine to
put their money in...
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chaim arlosoroff
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the proponent of the Ha’avara Agreement and a
leader of the Mapai political party.A...
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david ben gurion
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Chairman of the Jewish Agency
for Palestine. Leader of Mapai party and later the first...
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martin buber's letter to ghandi
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an open letter in which Buber,
a Jewish philosopher, criticizes Gandhi’s position...
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the white paper of 1939
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Written by Neville Chamberlain
in accordance with the Peel Commission of 1937. Put...
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the struma
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a ship that was carrying
Jewish refugees from Axis-allied Romania to Palestine in...
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yoel palgi
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Jew living in Palestine who
was trained by the British to parachute into Yugoslavia...
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herschel grynszpan
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March 1938. He was the son of
a family of Polish Jews who lived in Germany; he lived...
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zivia lubetkin zuckerman
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helped found the anti-Fascist Bloc. Jew who
went to Warsaw in 1939 to be involved in the...
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yitzhak zuckerman
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Married to Zivia Lubetkin, and
along with her led a secular Zionist youth movement....
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mordechai anielewicz
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The commander of the Zionist Combat Organization. Led the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising in...
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janusz korczak
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A Polish child activist who
worked with an orphanage and was well respected in Poland...
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artur zygelboim
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Had been in the Warsaw Jewish
Council. Left in 1940, joined the Polish Government...
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haike grossman
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She was the leader of ghetto
uprisings and underground movements in Lithuania and...
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heinrich grueber
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Heinrich
Gruber grew up in a teacher’s family
The
confessional church versus...
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rabbi michael dov-ber weissmandel
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orthodox rabbi who voluntarily
went from
Britain to Slovakia to save the Jews...
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fritz bauer
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A German Jewish judge who was
part of the Social Democratic Party. Fled to Denmark...
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auschwitz guards trail
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lso known as the Frankfurt
Auschwitz Trials, were conducted from 1963-1965, and led...
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nuremberg tribunal
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Trials held
against twenty-one of the top Nazi war criminals including Bormann (in
absentia),...
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telford taylor
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Military lawyer.
Was Robert Jackson’s assistant in the Nuremberg trials against major...
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abba kovner
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A Jewish poet who during World
War II went from Palestine to Europe to be involved...
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reach freier
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A German Jew, who in 1933
founded the Youth Aliyah movement. This organization saved...
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pasha reichman
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An accomplice to Abba Kovner’s
plans to kill Germans. Helped with operations for...
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nakam org (avengers)
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“Jewish Blood Will Be Avenged”
Kovner and Reichman’s group that did the activities...
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chaim weizmann
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First President of Israel. President of the World Zionist Organization. Supplied Kovner...
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jewish birgade
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A military formation of the
British Army that at towards the end of World War II fought...
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kibbutz ein ha'horesh
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A kibbutz founded in 1932 in Palestine by the Hashomer Hatzair members,
an Austria-Hungary...
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hanoch bartov
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Israeli
writer who helped liberate concentration camps while with the Jewish Brigade....
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shimon avidan
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Formed
the “German Unit” of the Palmach fighting force of the Haganah. It was
responsible...
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landsberg dp camp
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A former
prison, where Adolf Hitler was incarcerated and wrote Mein Kampf. Turned...
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exodus 1947
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Ship that carried
4,515 Jews from France to Palestine in 1947 illegally. Boarded by the...
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haganah-->idf
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A Jewish
armed group in Palestine led by Ben Gurion. Joined with the Jewish Brigade...
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harrison report
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A report
done by Earl G. Harrison investigating the treatment of Jewish DP’s by...
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unrra--united nations relief and rehabilitation adminstration
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Founded by forty-four nations
in 1943 to repatriate refugees once the war ended....
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konrad adenauer
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First chancellor of
West Germany from 1949-1963. Sought friendly relations with Israel,...
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IG Farben trial
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From
1933 IG-Farben “Invests” in the Nazis as part of their plans for World...
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the claims conference
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Helps
survivors organize their claims against the German Government
Terms
of...
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ze'ev jabotinsky
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Zionist and revisionist leader
who dedicated his life to creating a Jewish State....
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nahum goldmann
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Zionist and president of WZO.
Started writing the Encyclopedia Judaica, but was falsely...
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gideon hausner
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Head prosecutor in
Eichmann case. Chairman of the Council for Yad Vashem
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isser harel
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Head of Mossad, spent fifteen
years tracking down Eichmann, which he wrote about in...
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yehiel de-nur
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writer who survived Auschwitz.
Wrote books while he was in Auschwitz, claims that...
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emmanuel ringelblum--oneg shabbate
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Oneg
Shabbat was dedicated to preserving the history of the life of the Warsaw
Ghetto,...
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