Conducting Research on Jewish Fighters, WWII With a Focus on Ukraine, Belarus and Russia by J.D. Arden, Reference Services Assistant with assistance from Aurora Zinder, Volunteer, and David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History
Above image:Kniga Pamiati Voinov-Evreev and Biographical Dictionary of Jewish Resistance
Carrying Hanukkah gifts to hospitalized servicemen, 1918. American Jewish Historical Society.
“Text on back of photograph: "1918 – Carrying Chanuka gifts to hospitalized servicemen at the Ninth Naval District Hospital, Great Lakes, Illinois. Reading from your left to your right: 1. Louis Diamond (deceased), J.W.B. Field Representative at Great Lakes Naval Training Center ; 2. Mrs. Adolph Epstein (deceased), Racine, Wisconsin ; 3. Mrs….
Women Represented in the Collections: Lucy S. Dawidowicz by Ilana Rossoff, Reference Services Research Intern, Center for Jewish History
Lucy S. Dawidowicz (1915-1990) was a Jewish-American historian well-known for her polemical writings on the devastation of the Nazi genocide and the historical rise of Christian and German anti-Semitism.
Dawidowicz, born Lucy Schildkret to immigrants of Eastern Europe in New York City, was immersed…