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We can see five jewish female track runners at a meet

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Jewish children at school or in the synagogue. They could be at Hebrew school learning the Talmud.

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In Night, like these children, Ellie also studied the Talmud in the synagogue. "During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep of the destruction of the Temple,” (14). This quote shows how strongly he believed before experiencing the hardships of the Holocaust.

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We can see common religious attire. It also appears to be a religious convention with rabbis and priests.

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Children learning manual work with what looks like their father.

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Traditional Jewish Wedding. We can see that everyone is smiling and what looks like is there best attire.

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A Hasidic rabbi and his followers take the waters in Marienbad.

In the center is Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter (the Gerer rebbe 1905-1948) and to his left is his son Rabbi Yisrael Alter and to his right are his other two sons Rabbi Mayer Alter and Rabbi Simcha Bina Alter.

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Classic Jewish Music during the Holocaust

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Classic Jewish Music during the Holocaust

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Jewish Music from the Era of the Holocaust | Music Documentary

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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1439 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1439

Carol Steinhardt discusses her childhood in a village near Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; her education; the antisemitism she experienced; her experiences in November 1938 during Kristallnacht; her time in a police station with her other schoolmates; her father's arrest; her deportation to a labor camp in Berlin in 1941; the work she performed in a munitions factory; being transferred to Auschwitz in 1943; the conditions in Auschwitz; suffering from illness; her experiences in Auschwitz and her despair; being transferred to Majdanek; the psychological aftermath of her experiences in the camps, as well as her decision to speak in public about that time.

Some video files begin with 10-60 seconds of color bars.

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jewish Family and Children's Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties

Record last modified: 2022-07-28 20:13:36
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47746

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Oral history interview with Carol Steinhardt

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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1439 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1439 Carol Steinhardt discusses her childhood in a village near Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; her education; the antisemitism she experienced; her experiences in November 1938 during Kristallnacht; her time in a police station with her other schoolmates; her father's arrest; her deportation to

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Professional tennis match being played prior to the Holocaust. Everyone is in very nice attire. It appears that hats are very in style.

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All male soccer team from Grodno, Poland.

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Another Jewish soccer team. All players are wearing some sort of collared shirt

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A co-ed tennis team. Everyone is wearing very nice clothing. Not Hasidic Jews who split males and females.

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All male Mazeikiai, Lithuanian soccer group prewar

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https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/sport/index.asp

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In Night, despite Ellie and his family being devoted Orthodox Jews, Ellie is drawn to learning the ancient Jewish tradition of mystical interpretation of the Bible, Kabbalah. Ellie befriends a shy foreign jew in his community and begins learning the Kabbalah from him until he is ultimately deported for being a foreigner. “I continued to devote myself to my studies, Talmud during the day and Kabbalah at night.” (p.8) Religion was a big part of Ellie's, similar to many of his Jewish pears. However this part of there identity was stripped away during the Holocaust

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This is a Kabbalistic prayer book from Italy in 1803. It can be found in the Jewish Museum of Switzerland, in Basel. This would have been a similar book Ellie would have used to study the Kabbalah.

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The eight-day Jewish celebration known as Hanukkah commemorates the rededication during the second century B.C. of the Second Temple in Jerusalem. We can see that it is the fourth day of Hannukah because the menorah has four candles lit.

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A large family group celebrates the Passover in Lodz, Poland

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My number is 174517; We have been baptized, We will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die

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In Night Elie also describes the dehumanization tactics brought upon Jews in concentration camps, such as having tattoos of numbers instead of names. "We were told to roll up our left sleeves and file past the table. The three "veteran" prisoners, needles in hand, tattooed numbers on our left arms. I became A-7713. From then on, I had no other name." (42)

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Another connection we made was with the activities that would be conducted as you arrived at the concentration camps. Stripped naked and forced to have your head shaved. "Belt and shoes in hand, I let myself be dragged to the barbers. Their clippers tore out our hair, and shaved every hair on our bodies." (35)

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https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/en

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https://www.ushmm.org/