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  1. Aron Menczer

    • אהרון מנצ'ר

    Director of the Youth Aliya in Vienna

  2. Youth Aliyah

    1933/present

    Not far from the Nazi headquarters in Berlin, Recha Freier, a woman of determination and Zionist passion created the organization that would, a few months after Hitler took over the reins of power, be called Youth Aliyah. In the course of the harrowing years that followed Youth Aliyah saved the lives of thousands of Jewish children by bringing them to Palestine and Great Britain. Freier’s work did not, however, end in 1945. Over the years and until today Youth Aliyah is working tirelessly to bring homeless and traumatised Jewish children from more than 20 countries to one of its Youth Villa...

  3. Kaczerginski Shmerke

    • שמריהו קצ'רגינסקי
    • ‏קאטשערגינסקי, שמערקע.
    • Kaczerginski, Szmerke
    • Ḳaṭsherginsḳi, Shmerḳe, 1908-1954
    • קאטשערגינסקי, שמערקע, 1908-1954
    • ...

    1908

    1954

    Jewish writer and poet, partisan fighter, took an active part in the cultural life and the education of the youth in the Vilnius Ghetto, eminent collector of the Yiddish Shoah song, survivor of Vilnius ghetto.

  4. מ. ח. געשייט

    • מ. ח. געשייט

  5. אברהם רייסקי

    • אברהם רייסקי

  6. Corrie ten Boom

    • Cornelia ten Boom

    Christian activist and Dutch resistance member who, along with her father and other family members, helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War II.

  7. Poale Zion

    • Zionist Workers
    • פועלי ציון

    Poale Zion was a Zionist socialist party. In 1920 as a result of a split, the more radical Poale Zion-Left and the more moderate Poale Zion-Right were formed.

  8. British Army

    • Britse Strijdkrachten
    • Anglická Armáda
    • הצבא הבריטי

  9. Murmelstein Benjamin

    • Murmelstein, Benjamin, 1905-
    • Murmelstein, Benjamin, 1905-1989
    • Murmelstein, B., 1905-1989
    • Murmelsztajn, Benjamin 1905-
    • Murmelstein, Benjamin
    • ...

    1905

    1989

    Rabbi in the Vienna Jewish community, member of the Judenrat. Deported to Theresienstadt, deputy and later Judenältester.

  10. Alfred Philippson

    • אלפרד פיליפסון

    Geography professor in Bonn; was imprisoned in Terezin ghetto

  11. Myra Strauss-Gruhenberg

    • Myra Strauss

    Poet in Terezin Ghetto. She wrote "Purim im Ghetto" (Purim in the Ghetto), dated in May 1943. The poem was verbally presented during leisure activities in the camp and illegally distributed. Myra Strauss-Grunenberg did not survive.

  12. Bielski Tuvia

    • טוביה בילסקי
    • Tuvia Bielski

    Tuvia Bielski - Jewish partisan commander. Was born in 1906, in Stankiewicze, to family of farmers. At the age of seventeen he joined the Zionist pioneering movement, and in 1928 he was mobilized into the Polish army. He married and settled in the village of Subotnik where he opened a textile store. In September 1939 the area was annexed to the Soviet Union. With the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, Bielski was mobilized. When the Germans invaded the region he fled to the forest, and from there to his village of birth. After his parents and other members of their family...

  13. Rachel Auerbach

    • רחל אוארבך

    Born in Poland, historian, translator and poet. During the war, she was in the Warsaw ghetto and worked with Emanuel Ringelblum in the underground archive "Oneg Shabbat" reporting on living conditions in the ghetto. After she managed to get to the Aryan side, she published a poem "Yizkor" about Jewish youth who was murdered. After the war, she worked with the Jewish Historical Committee in Poland to document the Holocaust. Her works have been published in many books and peer-reviewed articles. In 1950 she immigrated to Israel and continued her research work on the Warsaw Ghetto at Yad Vashe...

  14. Ringelblum Archives

    • Oneg Shabat

    A group of Jewish social historians compiled notes, data, and documentation of Warsaw Ghetto life and the process of annihilation. The group was led by Emmanuel Ringelblum and collected 100 volumes of material, after who the archive is named. After the war, two milk cans and ten cases or records, documents, journals, and notes were unearthed. Historical documentation of ghetto conditions was forbidden by the Nazis and punishable by death.

  15. Mizrachi

    • מזרחי
    • East

    Mizrachi is a worldwide religious organization of Zionists, dedicated to rebuilding Israel according to Orthodox Jewish law.

  16. Woodrow Wilson

  18. Claude Lanzmann

  19. Schiller

  20. Eva Sandruschuetz