Historical dictionary of the Holocaust. Jack R. Fischel. 2014.
EDUCATION, JEWISH — This entry is arranged according to the following outline. Bibliography at the end of a section is indicated by (†). in the biblical period the nature of the sources historical survey the patriarchal period and the settlement the kingdom the… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (ICA) — JEWISH COLONIZATION ASSOCIATION (ICA), philanthropic association to assist Jews in depressed economic circumstances or countries of persecution to emigrate and settle elsewhere in productive employment, founded by baron maurice de hirsch in 1891 … Encyclopedia of Judaism
BERLIN — BERLIN, largest city and capital of Germany. The Old Community (1295–1573) Jews are first mentioned in a letter from the Berlin local council of Oct. 28, 1295, forbidding wool merchants to supply Jews with wool yarn. Suzerainty over the Jews… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Eastern Bloc emigration and defection — Conrad Schumann leaping over barbed wire into West Berlin on August 15, 1961, three days after construction began on the Berlin Wall[1] Eastern Bloc emigration and defection was a point of controversy during the Cold War. After Worl … Wikipedia
Eichmann, Adolf — (1906–1962) Because of his trial in Israel in 1961, Eichmann has become, perhaps, the most widely known Nazi perpetrator of the Holocaust. Eichmann moved to Germany after the Austrian Nazi Party was banned in 1933. In Germany, he enlisted in… … Historical dictionary of the Holocaust
Henneicke Column — The Henneicke Column was a group of Dutch Nazi collaborators working in the investigative division of the Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung), with headquarters in Amsterdam, during the German occupation … Wikipedia
Chronology — 1879 Wilhelm Marr, a member of the German Reichstag, coins the term “anti Semitism” and subsequently organizes the League of AntiSemitism. 1881 German composer Richard Wagner, in an essay titled “Know Thyself,” attacks Jews as the “demon… … Historical dictionary of the Holocaust
Austria — The Austrian republic was founded in November 1918 following the defeat of the Austro Hungarian Empire in World War I. The population of Austria numbered 6,725,000 inhabitants, including some 220,000 Jews. Austria’s Jewish population was… … Historical dictionary of the Holocaust
Netherlands — At the time of the German occupation of the Netherlands in May 1940, there were 140,000 Jews who represented about 1.6 percent of the population. The Jews of the Netherlands, many of whom were working class, were among the poorest of western… … Historical dictionary of the Holocaust
Heydrich, Reinhard — (1904–1942) Before his assassination in 1942, Heydrich was Heinrich Himmler’s second in command in regard to the implementation of the Final Solution. As head of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), Heydrich issued the directives that… … Historical dictionary of the Holocaust
