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In Memory of Frank Lautenberg
by David P. Rosenberg, M.P.A., Reference Services Research Coordinator, Center for Jewish History
Frank Lautenberg, the last World War II veteran in the United States Senate (he served from 1982-2001 and 2003-his death, today June 3, 2013), played an important role in allowing many Soviet Jews to come to America. His “Lautenberg Amendment” in 1990 relaxed certain standards for…
Portrait of a group of young men posing with oars on a dock at summer camp. Records of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of the City of New York. American Jewish Historical Society.
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Helene Mayer, Nazi Germany’s Jewish Olympian
By Bear Smith, Reference Services Librarian
Helene Mayer, Nazi Germany’s Jewish Olympian
The 1936 Summer Olympics were, famously, held in Berlin while Germany was under Nazi rule. The Games had not been awarded to the Nazis, though. The International Olympic Committee had awarded the games to Germany in 1931, two years before Hitler’s rise to chancellor and the eventual Nazi takeover of the country….