The Holocaust (162 page)

Authors: Martin Gilbert

BOOK: The Holocaust

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Theresienstadt: ghetto established at (24 November 1941),
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; Jews deported to Riga from (1942),
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,
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; Jews from, deported to Belzec (1942),
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,
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,
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; deported to Sobibor (1942),
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,
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; deported to Treblinka (1942),
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; name of, used in a deception,
10
; Jews from, forced to bury the dead of Lidice,
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; further deportations from (1942),
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; postcards from,
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; death of Herzl’s daughter at (1943),
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; children from Bialystok sent to,
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; some Danish Jews deported to,
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; children from Bialystok sent to Auschwitz from,
26
; and a scheme to avert deportation from,
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; and the fate of the ‘Czech Family Camp’ from, at Birkenau,
28
; and the fate of the Elder of the Ghetto (at Auschwitz),
29
; fate of Jews from, at Maly Trostenets (1944),
30
; and a deception,
31
; and another ‘selection’ of Jews from, at Auschwitz,
32
; fate of survivors from, near Vienna (1945),
33
; Jews evacuated to,
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; Eichmann visits,
35
; the last deportation to,
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; negotiated release of Danish Jews from,
37
; a death march to,
38
; SS men flee from,
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; a Jew liberated from, tries to return to his home town,
40
; a young Jew liberated from, searches for memories,
41
; a survivor of, and ‘the lot of the Jews’,
42

Thielbeck:
fate of Jews on (1945),
1

Thilo, Heinz: and the ‘anus of the world’,
1

Thomanek (camp commandant): and the final ‘action’ at Czortkow,
1

Thrace: deportation from,
1
,
2

Thumann, SS Lieutenant Anton: at Majdanek,
1

Tiefstack: fate of Jewish women at (1945),
1

Timisoara: Jews attacked (1936),
1

Timkowicze: a Jewess escapes from, with her son,
1

Titel: murder of Jews at (1942),
1

Tlomackie street synagogue, Warsaw: (on 1 September 1939),
1

Tlumacz: Jews deported to Belzec from (1941),
1

Toebbens, Walter: evacuates his employees,
1
; fails to protect his employees,
2

Tokele (a four-year-old orphan): murdered after liberation (1945),
1

Tokyo:
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,
2
n. 2

Tomaszow Mazowiecki: underground links with,
1
; Jews deported to Treblinka from,
2

Topaz, Pinkus: shot (1940),
1

Topczewo: a Jew betrayed in,
1

Topocostok, Shmuel: shot (1939),
1

Topolcany: fate of the Jews of (1944),
1

Topolya: Jews deported from (1944),
1

Torgau: Allied forces meet at (1945),
1

Torun: Jewish women murdered at (1945),
1

Toszka (at Auschwitz): helps a revolt,
1
; arrested,
2
; hanged (1944),
3

Toulouse: a Jew shot in (1943),
1
; Jewish resistance in region of,
2

Toulouse, Archbishop of: his protest,
1

Transnistria: deportation to death camps from (1942),
1
; the survivors in, to be saved (1943),
2

Transylvania: annexed by Hungary,
1
; punishment of a boy from, at Auschwitz,
2

Trawniki: labour camp at,
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,
2
,
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,
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; Emanuel Ringelblum smuggled out
of,
5
; the ‘Harvest Festival’ massacre at,
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; a history of, prepared in hiding,
7

Trczinski (a Pole): gives a grenade to a Jew,
1

Trebacz, Maurycy: dies (1941),
1

Treblinka:
1
; a labour camp at,
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; a death camp being prepared at (1942),
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,
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,
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,
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; and ‘Operation Reinhard’,
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; the Jews of Warsaw deported to, and gassed (1942),
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; Jews from Radom deported to,
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; an act of defiance at,
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,
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; continuing mass murder at (1942),
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,
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; plans for trains to,
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; deception at,
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,
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; escape from trains on way to,
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; death toll in,
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; an escapee from, caught,
37
; renewed deportation from Warsaw to (January 1943),
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; the ‘passive heroism’ of a Jew deported to,
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; a deportation train goes past,
40
; deportations to, from Thrace and Macedonia (1943),
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,
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; destruction of corpses at,
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; ‘too popular’,
44
; an escapee from, killed in the Warsaw uprising,
45
; Jews deported to, during and after the Warsaw uprising (April 1943),
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,
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; preparations for revolt at,
48
; revolt at,
49
; news of revolt at, known in Bialystok,
50
; the final deportations to (August 1943),
51
; a deportation train passes,
52
; a poet’s sons, murdered at,
53
; Soviet forces reach site of (1944),
54
; Jews murdered near, after liberation (1945),
55

Trestioreanu, General: orders reprisals,
1

Trieste: Jews murdered in (1943),
1

Trikkala: rescue of Jews in,
1

Tripoli: German occupation of,
1

Tromat: and a death train (1941),
1

Tsuruga (Japan): Jews land at (1940),
1

Tsymbal, Sergeant Andrei: and a largely Jewish partisan group (1944),
1

Tuchmacher, Mechel: executed (1939),
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,
2
n.
3

Tuczyn: revolt at (1942),
1

Tulchin: escapees from,
1

Tuliszkow: Jews from, sent to their deaths (1941),
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,
2
n. 2

Tulkarm: two Jews killed in (1936),
1

Tunis: death of a Jew from, at Auschwitz,
1
; death of a Jew on a forced march from,
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; Italians protect Jews in,
3
; homes plundered in,
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Tunisia: Jews of,
1
; Jewish homes plundered in,
2

Turek: Jews from, sent to their deaths (1941),
1
,
2
n. 2; a deportation from (1941),
3
; a Jew murdered in, after liberation (1945),
4

Turfkenitz, Shlomo: helps escapees,
1

Turkey:
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,
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; possible fate of Jews in,
3

Turkey: Greek Jews smuggled to safety in,
1
; Jews allowed transit through,
2
; and the Jews of Rhodes,
3

Turno: an attack on,
1

Turno, David: his barns attacked,
1
; the death of his relative (1943),
2

Turobin: Jews deported to Sobibor from,
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; fate of a Jew in, reported to Warsaw,
2

Turzysk: an act of defiance in,
1

Tykocin: a Polish woman murdered at, for helping Jews,
1

Tykoczynski (a lawyer): commits suicide (1940),
1

Tyrol: liberation in,
1

Uberall, Ehud (Ehud Avriel): organizes refugees (1939),
1

Ujazdow: letter about a deportation through,
1

Ukmerge: mass murder at (1941),
1

Ukraine, the:
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,
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,
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; remaining Jews in (1942),
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; a promise to Jews at Sobibor concerning,
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; rumoured resettlement in,
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,
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; Jews in action against Germans in,
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Ukrainians: as guards,
1
; as collaborators,
2
; auxiliaries,
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,
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; hoodlums,
5
; militiamen,
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,
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,
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,
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; gangs,
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; local units,
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; militia commanders,
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; and the Jews of Kiev,
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,
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; at Babi Yar,
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; at Stanislawow,
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; at Chelmno,
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; at Khmelnik,
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,
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; in Minsk,
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; at Baranowicze,
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; near Wlodawa,
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; at Belzec,
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,
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; on way from Zamosc to Sobibor,
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; at Sobibor,
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; at Hrubieszow,
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; in Warsaw,
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; at Treblinka,
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,
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; warned not to hide Jews,
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; give refuge to Jews,
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,
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; at Krzemieniec,
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; at Belzec,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; at Kielce,
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; at Sarny,
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; at Zofiowka,
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; in Dzialoszyce,
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; at Tuczyn,
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; at Korzec,
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; at Lukow,
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; outside Bialystok,
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,
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; at
Kruszyna,
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; at Piotrkow,
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; during deportations from Bialystok,
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,
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,
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; at Brody,
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; at Czortkow,
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; at Szebnie camp,
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; at a camp near Trieste,
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; and the ‘Harvest Festival’ massacre,
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,
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; at Skarzysko-Kamienna,
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; Maly Trostenets,
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; and the killing of Jews after liberation,
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,
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; at Lieberose,
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; shelter Jews,
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,
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Ullersdorf: Jews at forced labour at,
1
,
2

Uman: an eye-witness to mass murder at (1941),
1
; a secret link with the Ukrainian partisans at (1943),
2

Umschlagplatz
(Warsaw): deportations from (1942),
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; two Jews shot on the way to,
2
; and the search for work cards at,
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; a ‘dignified figure’ on the way to,
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; and the renewed deportations (January 1943),
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; and the Warsaw uprising (April 1943),
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,
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Undulis, Yanis: helps Jews,
1

Uniejow: Jews from, sent to their deaths (1941),
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,
2
n. 2; death of two Jews from (1942),
3

Union Factory (Auschwitz): Jewish forced labour at,
1
; and preparations for a revolt at Auschwitz-Birkenau,
2
; evacuation of,
3

United Partisan Organization (Vilna): proclamation of,
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,
2
,
3

United States: German Jews emigrate to (1933),
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,
2
,
3
,
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,
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,
6
n.
7
; and the voyage of the
St Louis
(1939),
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; Jews caught on way to (1939),
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; neutral (September 1939—December 1941),
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,
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,
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,
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,
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; German fears of a ‘renewal’ of Jewry in,
15
; at war with Japan,
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; inspires ‘thousands of dejected Jews’,
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; Germany declares war on (11 December 1941),
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,
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; and the North African landings (1942),
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; dollars of, sent to the Reich (1943),
21
; protests about fate of Hungarian Jews (1944),
22
; revulsion in (1945),
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; Jews driven to seek new homes in (1946),
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; a Jew from, visits Riga (1976),
25

United States Army: units of, reach mass graves (1945),
1
,
2
; enter Nordhausen,
3
; enter Dachau,
4
; meet survivors,
5
; Jews liberated by,
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,
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,
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,
9
; a refugee from Poland killed in action with,
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n.
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