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Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust

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Vilna Ghetto Partisans
Echoes & Reflections is dedicated to reshaping the way that teachers and students understand, process, and navigate the world through the events of the Holocaust. We partner with educators to help them introduce students to the complex themes of the Holocaust and to understand its lasting effect on the world. GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening This unit provides an opportunity for students to explore Jewish…
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The Ghettos in Nazi Europe

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Lodz Ghetto Bridge
Echoes & Reflections is dedicated to reshaping the way that teachers and students understand, process and navigate the world through the events of the Holocaust. They partner with educators to help them introduce students to the complex themes of the Holocaust and to understand its lasting effect on the world. GRADE LEVEL: Middle School, High School COMMON CORE STANDARDS: Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening In this unit, students learn about the ghettos established throughout Nazi…
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ADL Shocked at Decision by Fringe Catholic Sect to Hold Funeral for Nazi War Criminal

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New York, NY, October 15, 2013 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed shock and outrage at the announcement that a fringe Catholic organization decided to hold the funeral of notorious Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke at its church near Rome. The Society of St. Pius X, a Catholic order whose representatives have charged contemporary Jews with deicide, and whose bishop, Richard Williamson, has made statements denying the Holocaust, announced that it would hold a funeral for…
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ADL Honors Salvadoran Diplomat Who Saved European Jews During the Holocaust

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New York, NY, February 14, 2012 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) posthumously honored Colonel José Arturo Castellanos Contreras, a Salvadoran diplomat who during the Holocaust saved tens of thousands of European Jews by issuing documents identifying them as citizens of El Salvador. The ADL Jan Karski Courage to Care Award, established in 1987 to honor rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust era, was presented February 10 to Colonel Castellanos' daughter, Frieda…
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ADL Honors Dutch Resistance Fighter Who Boldly Saved Jews During Holocaust

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Washington, DC, May 2, 2010 … Jaap Penraat, a Dutch resistance fighter who saved more than 400 Jews during the Holocaust by forging fake documents and guiding them to safety, was honored posthumously by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for his heroism in risking his life to save others. "Jaap Penraat was a person of moral courage and conscience," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director and a Holocaust survivor who was saved by his Polish Catholic nanny, in presenting the award. …
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ADL Honors Woman as Teenage Rescuer of Jews During Holocaust

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New York, NY, February 24, 2010 … Arlette deMonceau Michaelis, who along with her family resisted the Germans and saved Jews in Belgium during the Holocaust, was honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for her heroism in risking her life to save others.  Arlette received ADL's Courage to Care Award, which honors rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust era, during a ceremony at the League's National Executive Committee meeting in Palm Beach, Florida.  "Arlette…
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ADL Honors Hungarian Aristocrat Who Helped Polish And Slovak Jews Flee To Hungary During The Holocaust

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New York, NY, November 7, 2011 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) posthumously honored Count János Esterházy, a Hungarian aristocrat and member of the Slovak Parliament, for his efforts to save Jews during the Holocaust by helping Polish refugees, many of whom were Jews, and Slovak Jews flee to Hungary. The ADL Jan Karski Courage to Care Award, established in 1987 to honor rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust era, was presented to Esterházy's…
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ADL Renames The Courage To Care Award In Honor Of Polish Diplomat Jan Karski

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New York, NY, October 24, 2011 … The Anti-Defamation League's Courage to Care Award, which was established in 1987 to honor rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust, is being renamed in honor of Jan Karski, the Polish diplomat and righteous gentile who provided one of the first eyewitness accounts of Hitler's Final Solution to the West.  A longtime professor at Georgetown University, who died in 2000 at the age of 86, Jan Karski was among the first recipients of the ADL Courage…
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Vatican's Demand That Bishop Publicly Recant Holocaust Denial A "Major Positive Step Forward"

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  New York, NY, February 4, 2009 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today welcomed as a "major positive step forward" the Vatican's demand that Bishop Richard Williamson publicly and unequivocally recant his Holocaust denial if he is ever to regain his clerical responsibilities in the Church. Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:   We sincerely appreciate that Pope Benedict XVI heard our pain and anguish over the acceptance back into…
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