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This instilled a feeling of confidence in a young Jewish child who also felt slightly out of place in a largely non-Jewish milieu. At the age of nine, Sugarman recalled a kid at school asking her if she was a monkey (“because I looked so different”) and being confused when someone asked her about “Jewish Land.” “I couldn’t work it ...
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- Therese Giehse
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Sugarman has not yet explored her Jewish roots explicitly in her work but says that as she gets older, the artist in her “wants to be truer to my own soul”.
Mar 27, 2013 · She was referred to Sugarman by her rabbi in Texas, and by October of that year, she was being interviewed for the position. “She was just like the Pied Piper,” Epstein smiled. “Not only was she educationally smart and Jewishly smart, she was ‘parent-smart’ – she would engage parents and get their encouragement to go forth.”
- In The Ghettos
- In The Killing Centers
- Non-Jewish Children
- In Concentration and Transit Camps
- In Occupied Poland and The Occupied Soviet Union
- Resistance and Rescue
- After The War
In the ghettos, Jewish children died from starvation, exposure, and a lack of adequate clothing and shelter. The German authorities were indifferent to this mass death. They considered most of the younger ghetto children to be unproductive and hence “useless eaters.” Because children were generally too young to be used for forced labor, German auth...
Camp authorities sent the majority of children directly to the gas chambers upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenauand other killing centers. SS and police forces in German-occupied Poland and the occupied Soviet Union shot thousands of children at the edge of mass graves. Sometimes the selection of children to fill the first transports to the killing c...
Non-Jewish children from certain targeted groups were not spared. Examples include Romani (Gypsy) children killed in Auschwitz; 5,000 to 7,000 children killed as victims of the “euthanasia” program; children murdered in reprisals, including most of the children of Lidice; and children in villages in the occupied Soviet Union who were killed with th...
The German authorities also incarcerated a number of children in concentration camps and transit camps. SS physicians and medical researchers used a number of children, including twins, in concentration camps for medical experiments that often resulted in the deaths of the children. Concentration camp authorities deployed adolescents, particularly ...
In their “search to retrieve ‘Aryan blood,'” SS race experts ordered hundreds of children in occupied Poland and the occupied Soviet Union to be kidnapped and transferred to the Reich. The children were to be adopted by racially suitable German families. Although the basis for these decisions was “race-scientific,” often blond hair, blue eyes, or f...
In spite of their acute vulnerability, many children discovered ways to survive. Children smuggled food and medicines into the ghettos, after smuggling personal possessions to trade for them out of the ghettos. Children in youth movements later participated in underground resistance activities. Many children escaped with parents or other relatives—...
After the surrender of Nazi Germany, ending World War II, refugees and displaced persons searched throughout Europe for missing children. Thousands of orphaned children were in displaced persons camps. Many surviving Jewish children fled eastern Europe as part of the mass exodus (Brihah) to the western zones of occupied Germany, en route to the Yis...
May 20, 2004 · The partcipation of Jews in WW2. My name is Martin Sugarman and as Archivist of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (AJEX) - founded in 1923 - of the UK, and including the ...
Jun 27, 2016 · One night, some 30 years ago, Kenneth Rendell followed the owner of a military shop outside London through a side door into the store. It was pitch black, and Rendell bumped into something. “I ...
Based on numerous sources and stories found in the Bible and Talmud, certain educational and moral concepts have been developed to help guide Jewish parents to properly bring up their children. A few will be presented here, in brief form. Avoid Favoritism. A Jewish parent must be sensitive to be consistent and fair with all his or her children.
