Leonore Lanfer. Black and white photograph circa 1900. Yeshiva University Museum Collections.
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Young men and women working on writing for publications at Camp Wel-Met, 1948. Photograph by Heinz H. Weissenstein. National Jewish Welfare Board Records. American Jewish Historical Society.
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Adah Isaacs Menken. Photo: American Jewish Historical Society.
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NYT: Italian Praised for Saving Jews Is Now Seen as Nazi Collaborator
NYT: Italian Praised for Saving Jews Is Now Seen as Nazi Collaborator
Information about Giovanni Palatucci, celebrated for saving Jews, is being removed from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in light of evidence that the tales may be untrue.
Centro Primo Levi here at the Center for Jewish History “stated that a research panel of more than…