- Report To The Secretary On The Acquiescence Of This Government In The Murder Of The Jews
- See War Refugee Board.
Historical dictionary of the Holocaust. Jack R. Fischel. 2014.
Historical dictionary of the Holocaust. Jack R. Fischel. 2014.
History of the Jews in Hungary — concerns the Jews of Hungary and of Hungarian origins. Jews have been a present community in Hungary since at least the 11th Century (with earlier references to Jews in Hungary existing), struggling against discrimination throughout the Middle… … Wikipedia
THE EVENTS — introduction European Jewry in the Early 1930s Germany in the Early 1930s the expansion of the reich … Encyclopedia of Judaism
RESPONSES — the victims the world THE VICTIMS Behavior of the Victims In a chapter entitled Auschwitz: The Death of Choice in Versions of Survival: The Holocaust and the Human Spirit, the Holocaust scholar lawrence langer writes: After we peel the veneer of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
Introduction — Germany, during the years between 1933 and 1945, was a state organized around the principle of race. Rudolph Hess, Hitler’s confidant, was not being facetious when he defined National Socialism as applied biology. To the Nazis, paraphrasing… … Historical dictionary of the Holocaust
A HOLOCAUST CHRONOLOGY — 1932 July 31 National Socialist (Nazi) Party receives 37.3% of the vote, giving it 230 of 608 seats in the Reichstag. August 13 Adolf Hitler rejects an offer by German President Paul von Hindenburg to become vice chancellor. November… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
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
War Refugee Board — ▪ United States government agency United States agency established January 22, 1944, to attempt to rescue victims of the Nazis (Nazi Party) mainly Jews from death in German occupied Europe. The board began its work after the Nazis had… … Universalium
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Morgenthau, Henry, Jr. — (1891–1967) As secretary of the Treasury, Morgenthau was the highest ranking Jew in the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. During his tenure as Treasury secretary, Morgenthau had considerable influence with the president and, as the… … Historical dictionary of the Holocaust
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