Word: jew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crossfire. An effective melodrama about some drunken soldiers and a murdered Jew, with a notable performance by Robert Ryan (TIME...
...Jew-baiter Bilbo had the first of his operations at New Orleans' Jewish Touro Infirmary...
...shocked. . . . The Government has not so much credit left in the world that it can afford to squander it in acts of unpremeditated folly." Added the News Chronicle: "British conduct ... is moving rapidly to the ultimate stage of lunacy. . . . No one but a fool would try to compel a Jew to go to Germany of all countries...
...three ships steamed off toward Germany, a frail little man in a shabby black suit stood on Port-de-Bouc's tiny quay, looking longingly after the ships. A Polish Jew who had emigrated to Strasbourg, Josef Hochowitz had two children aboard the ships, Israel (24) and Rebecca (22). Once he had lost them to a German concentration camp, but in 1945 the family was reunited. Now he had lost them to Zionism. Two months ago, exclaiming, "We want to go to our real country," the children had left, and at Sete boarded the Exodus...
...austere rabbi (who had no children) had taken Josef to task: "You must know home for a Jew is Palestine. That is something to be struggled for ... to pave the way for the children of Israel." Now, as he prepared to board the Strasbourg train to tell his wife that Rebecca and Israel were not coming, Josef had his answer. From one of the steaming, sweating shipholds, they had finally sent him a message: "We will meet again in Palestine or never...