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·Jun 10

Freedom Gained and Lost: One Family’s Holocaust Fate

In May of 1939, the MS St. Louis departed from Hamburg, Germany, carrying 937 passengers, mostly Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution. Leopold and Johanna Dingfelder and their 15-year-old son Rudi were among them. The Dingfelders had made the difficult decision to leave everything behind in Plauen, Germany — their home…

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Freedom Gained and Lost: One Family’s Holocaust Fate
Freedom Gained and Lost: One Family’s Holocaust Fate

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·Apr 29

From the Austrian Army to US Army Intelligence: The Many Lives of Otto Perl

Otto Perl, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1915, had a peaceful childhood. He never experienced antisemitism, he said. He swam, ran, and skied as part of a Jewish sports club. And yet, his parents were aware of rising anti-Jewish sentiment in neighboring Germany.

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From the Austrian Army to US Army Intelligence: The Many Lives of Otto Perl
From the Austrian Army to US Army Intelligence: The Many Lives of Otto Perl

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·Apr 29

From Nazi-Persecuted Child to American Soldier: How Hugo Zulawski Fought Back

Hugo Zulawski was just 13 when he escaped from Nazi-controlled Vienna, Austria, in the spring of 1939. We don’t know much about his life before then. We do know that a year before he got out, German troops marched into Austria, which Germany had annexed, immediately enacting antisemitic legislation that…

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From Nazi-Persecuted Child to American Soldier: How Hugo Zulawski Fought Back
From Nazi-Persecuted Child to American Soldier: How Hugo Zulawski Fought Back

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·Apr 29

From Street Fights to Secret Intelligence: Jewish Brothers Who Fought Back against the Nazis

They messed with the wrong brothers. On September 2, 1939, the day after the German invasion of Poland, two Nazi sympathizers began harassing Tibor (Tom) and Ernö (Ernest) Kövári on a street in their hometown of Bratislava, Slovakia, pestering them about being Jewish. “Ernest told me that he saw the…

World War II

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From Street Fights to Secret Intelligence: Jewish Brothers Who Fought Back against the Nazis
From Street Fights to Secret Intelligence: Jewish Brothers Who Fought Back against the Nazis

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·Apr 29

From Linguistic Talent to a Vocation: Aaron Finger’s US Army Journey

When Aaron Finger arrived at his US Army post in a displaced persons camp in Germany in 1946, his predecessor glibly told him, “good luck.” The man had been trying, unsuccessfully, to communicate with a…

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From Linguistic Talent to a Vocation: Aaron Finger’s US Army Journey
From Linguistic Talent to a Vocation: Aaron Finger’s US Army Journey

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·Apr 29

From Nazi Germany to the US Military: One Woman’s Story

Ellen Kaufmann Boucher was born in 1920 in Mainz, Germany — also the birthplace of Johannes Gutenberg, who invented the movable-type printing press there in the 1400s. Her mother passed away during her birth and her maternal grandmother, Amalie, whom she called Omi, helped care for her for years afterward…

World War II

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From Nazi Germany to the US Military: One Woman’s Story
From Nazi Germany to the US Military: One Woman’s Story

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·Mar 31

War Endangers Holocaust Researchers and Educators in Ukraine — and Their Work

Now wielding a weapon instead of a word processor, a Ukrainian scholar due to start a fellowship at the Museum in early March had to indefinitely postpone his trip after Russia invaded his country. Mykhaylo Tyaglyy said goodbye to his family, who left Ukraine for Poland on their way to…

Ukraine

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War Endangers Holocaust Researchers and Educators in Ukraine — and Their Work
War Endangers Holocaust Researchers and Educators in Ukraine — and Their Work

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·Mar 31

Archives and Collections in Jeopardy: Saving Ukraine’s Historical Record

Three days before war broke out, Museum contractor Kyrylo Vyslobokov had finished a two-year project to digitize archival documents from Kherson, a city in southern Ukraine that is currently occupied by the Russian army. He brought the material to his office in Kyiv, but on the day he intended to…

Ukraine

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Archives and Collections in Jeopardy: Saving Ukraine’s Historical Record
Archives and Collections in Jeopardy: Saving Ukraine’s Historical Record

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·Mar 11

A Ukrainian Jewish Lens on World War II

Yevgeny Khaldei was born to Jewish parents in 1917 in what is now Donetsk, Ukraine. His mother died during a pogrom when he was one year old. In 1932–33, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin deliberately starved at least 3.5 million Ukrainian men, women, and children — both Christians and Jews. During…

Ukraine

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A Ukrainian Jewish Lens on World War II
A Ukrainian Jewish Lens on World War II

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·Feb 14

What Uyghur Americans Want You to Know about the Olympic Games

And why what is happening in China may be genocide — Bahram Sintash hopes the world sees beyond the pomp and circumstance of the Olympic Games to the distant Xinjiang region, where his father has been missing for five years…

China

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What Uyghur Americans Want You to Know about the Olympic Games
What Uyghur Americans Want You to Know about the Olympic Games
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