Vladka meed biography of nancy
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Description:
Electronic data compiled from multiple lists of Lithuanian Jews in Nancy Schoenberg's "Lithuanian Jewish Communities"
Compiler:
Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors
Index Date:
Before 19 Jun 1998
Primary Source Document Date:
1991
Event Date:
Between Jun 1943 - 1946
Number of Persons (Exact):
5772
Associated Place:
Lithuania
Notes:
Created from information in Nancy and Stuart Schoenburg, Lithuanian Jewish Communities, New York and London: Garland, 1991, USHMM Library call number DS135.L5 S38 1991
Keyword:
Religious community
Description:
Electronic indices of Holocaust survivors and victims, from various sources.
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Hope Amid Destruction
Tishah Be’av, which begins immediately after this Shabbat, is a moment on the Jewish calendar when we pause to reflect on the nature, impact, and significance of destruction. I’ve spent 33 years working at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, so naturally I’ve thought intensely about what the catastrophic destruction of European Jewry means for me, for Jews, and for humanity.
Destruction can teach us why freedom, justice, and human dignity are important—and fragile. And, that when freedom and justice are denied and dignity is threatened, we still retain certain powers over our own humanity.
That lesson has been brought home to me over and over again in my career, learning from the responses of both victims and survivors of the Holocaust. The assault on them was so horrific, so devastating, and so complete, it seems as if they had no agency. That, of course, is precisely what the Nazis wanted the Jews to think.
The Jews were faced with very few choices, and those they had have rightly been called “choic
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