Word: pogroms
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Later he joined his father who had succeeded in establishing a travel agency in Warsaw. But disaster once again overtook the family when, in the Polish pogrom of August, 1937, an armed band of roughnecks broke into his father's office and injured the elder Spiegel...
...pathetic 19-year-old youth, whose name is inscribed at the top of a dark page of German history, entered the Reich last week handcuffed to a Gestapo agent and guarded by another. He was Herschel Grynszpan, whose shot in Paris in 1938 set off the greatest Nazi pogrom. Released from the Paris Santé Prison when that capital fell, he reportedly joined the refugee stream, surrendered at Toulon, where he was later sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment by a French court "under German supervision." In Berlin he will face the notorious Volksgericht, which keeps two headsmen busy...
Chaplin throwing platefuls of strawberries & cream and the sight of Jews being shot in the streets do not mix. At one time Chaplin's dictator roars gibberish at crowds, at another he is abashed by Oakie, at a third he malignantly orders a pogrom. Even Chaplin's barber is not of a piece. At the end of the picture the long bewildered little man suddenly launches into a forceful, moving and undoubtedly heartfelt six-minute sermon on democracy...
...Neumann gives the life story of each of the passengers. He arranges these lives in four groups: "The Heirs," "The Confounded," "The Enthusiasts," "Destruction Through the Brain." Heir to the life of the spirit is the ascetic, The Pale One, Moyshe (Moses) Wasservogel, orphaned long ago in a Carpathian pogrom, named by his saviors after "that other who was picked up out of the stream of life." At nine-and-a-half Moyshe knew the Talmud and the Torah, at 15 he was drafted into the Tsar's Army...
Fainting and left for dead on a forced march, saved by peddlers, living among the scribes in a Jewish village, growing old in poverty and unworldliness, Moyshe was miraculously spared in the great pogrom by which in 1919 165,000 Jews in Poland were painfully done to death. It was a sign. From then on his eyes turned toward Jerusalem...