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A Holocaust Before The Holocaust: Elias Tsherikover and the Pogroms in Civil War Ukraine

By Alexander Maro, CJH-NYU Dissertation Completion Fellowship

A Holocaust Before The Holocaust: Elias Tsherikover and the Pogroms in Civil War Ukraine

On a cold winter afternoon in February 1919, several hundred soldiers descended upon the Jewish neighborhoods of the small Ukrainian city of Proskuriv (today Khmel’nyts’kyi, Ukraine). Ten days earlier, Symon Petliura, head of the short-lived Ukrainian People’s Republic, had dispatched to the border city nearly…

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The American Nazi Party’s Abduction of a Jewish Boy in 1961

By Andrew Sperling, Leon Levy Fellow

The American Nazi Party’s Abduction of a Jewish Boy in 1961

On a humid summer’s night in July 1961, thirteen-year-old Ricky Farber and his friends bounced around their suburban neighborhood in Arlington, Virginia. There, they stumbled upon an odd and frightening house draped in massive Nazi battle flags. What happened next would be a source of contention: Farber and…

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Divided Empires, United Families: The Union of Russian Jews and Post-War Family Reunification across the United States and Soviet Union

By Alexandra (Sasha) Zborovsky, Arcadia Graduate Fellow

Divided Empires, United Families: The Union of Russian Jews and Post-War Family Reunification across the United States and Soviet Union

Between 1942 and 1949, the Union of Russian Jews and President Samuel Chobrutsky of the Moscow Jewish Community helped over 15,000 Jewish families across the United States, Mandate Palestine, and South America locate and exchange letters with…

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The Day HIAS’ Ellis Island Agent Disappeared

By Jacob Morrow-Spitzer, Sid and Ruth Lapidus Graduate Fellow

The Day HIAS’ Ellis Island Agent Disappeared

After twelve frantic days of searching for his missing colleague, a weary I. Irving Lipsitch sat down to write a detailed letter to his boss. “I give you herewith the following facts in connection with the matter of Mr. Samuel Littman,” he began, addressing Leon Sanders, president of…

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Young Victims: Child Survivors of the Holocaust

By Ari Winer, Reading Room CLIP Intern

Young Victims: Child Survivors of the Holocaust

By the end of the Holocaust, over 1.5 million children were slaughtered at the hands of the Nazi Party and its collaborators. In ghettos, children were often killed by starvation or disease. In concentration camps, the majority were immediately sent to gas chambers or shot along with their families. However,…

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