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This virtual exhibition has been written and curated by Professor Laura Morowitz and Professor Lori Weintrob, Wagner College. Panels designed by Mr. Anthony Freitas. For permission to use their materials we thank the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Archives, College Park, Maryland.For more on the Wagner College Holocaust Center visit: https://wagner.edu/holocaust-center/
Members of the Jewish resistance--both male and female fighters--are captured by SS troops on Nowolipie Street during the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. April 19 - May 16 1943. Collection USMHH
SITES OF THE HOLOCAUST IN EUROPE
ESTIMATED MINIMUM JEWISH LOSSES 1945
Map: 1939 International boundaries. Source: Encyclopedia of the Holocaust; editor in chief, Israel Gutman.
A Jewish Family in Salonika, Greece, 1930s Rene and Tillie Molho USMM
Shepske Sonenson riding his Hebrew teacher on a motorcycle through one of the shtetls of Poland, 1930s
https://www.facinghistory.org/about-usCredit: USHMM
Siegbert Levy’s Bar Mitzvah at the Zerrenerstrasse synagogue
Pforzheim, Germany, 1936
USHMM courtesy of Stadtarchiv Pforzheim
1936 Maccabee Jewish Football Team, Lithuania 1936
Yad Vashem Photo Archive
Three Jewish Dutch couples celebrating Purim in Holland in 1934
Pictured are Ammy and Nico Herschel (left), Ammy's sister Bilha and her husband, Aaron Davidon (center), and unidentified friends. Aaron Davidson perished during the war.
USMHH, courtesy of Tswi Herschel
Autobiography of a fifth grader, Bebe Epshtein, from pre-war Vilna
Two German Jewish WWI soldiers
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Werner Mendel
The Bonn Platz synagogue, Hamburg, 1906. Set on fire during Kristallnacht
Group portrait of the members of Simone Weil's troop of the Eclaireurs Israelites de France (Jewish Scouts of France). The name of her section was Eretz Yisrael (The Land of Israel). 1938
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Simone Weil Lipman
Rose, Julius and Louis Morowitz, Chmielnik, Poland, c. 1915. Julius, the boy in the center, is the grandfather of Professor Laura Morowitz.
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