persecution
Perpetrators and victims—stories about man's inhumanity to man
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Anguish during the bombing of Berlin
Watching from afar as British ‘heavies’ are lobbed into Berlin's neighborhoods
from Another Time, Another Place
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Escape from Berlin—last good chance to get out
Our reconstructed timeline: How Elly and Helga Ringel were smuggled with SS escort out of Germany and across the Belgian border in October 1938…
from Ruby Family History Project
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Final days in Kovno
The amazing story of the unrelated Rabinowitz family in the days before the liquidation of Kovno. Two sons survived to make their lives in Israel…
from Ruby Family History Project
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Ghosts of Weißensee—the cemetery played on
How did Betty Katz meet her end in February 1942?
from Ruby Family History Project
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If walls could talk—75 years in a Parisian villa
Insider dealings in the French jewelry trade. Swank cocktail parties for the Nazi elite. A rough-cut Jewish jeweler and his ebullient new wife.…
from Ruby Family History Project
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Margot Dränger's survival story
Helga's second cousin suffered unimaginable traumas in and around Krakow from 1939 to 1945. She survived and gave testimony later in life
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Motives for mercy—the consuls of Toulouse
In July 1940, consular officials from three nations conspired to open an escape route for Jews out of occupied France. Why did they do it?
from Ruby Family History Project
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Our family during the Nazi years in Berlin
During the first five years of Hitler's reign of terror, Jewish families of Berlin faced one repression after another.
from Ruby Family History Project
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Rose Ratner's scar—the 1881 pogrom in Rostov
The Tulbowitz tavern in Novocherkassk was overrun by Cossacks during the Rostov pogrom of 1881
from Ruby Family History Project
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The Clerc jewelry aryanization files
The Clerc jewelry assets were seized and resold to an Aryan buyer. The Nazis kept perfect records of the transactions.
from Ruby Family History Project
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The Kaufhaus at Schloßstraße 97
In 1907, Moritz Feidt built a department store in Berlin Stieglitz. It still stands today
from Another Time, Another Place
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Bilingual blogging—my French collaborator
Historical blogging makes strange bedfellows. A French jewelry critic and I were both interested in the history of the Clerc jewelry business…
from Ruby Family History Project
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Lest we forget—Ringel Holocaust testimony
Rosa Shatner, née Ringel, and her lovely daughter Margot perished in a Serbian death camp. Rosa's son Ze'ev Sharon gave testimony in…
from Ruby Family History Project
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Tiegenhof and Elbing
After her husband's death, Frederike Wohlgemuth returned with her children to her old home town. Later, her sons entered business as mill owners…
from Ruby Family History Project
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