Part
I.
The
Holocaust in The New York Times 1933 – 1947
Much has been written concerning the
type and extent of coverage of the Holocaust provided by the press, in general,
and The New York Times, in
particular. The latest book published on
this subject is Laurel Leff’s Buried by the Times: the Holocaust and
America’s Most Important Newspaper. A useful bibliography is Queensborough
Community College Holocaust Resource Center and Archives’ The New York Times
Articles on the Holocaust 1933 – 1947 (2001).
The purpose of this bibliography is
to give access to the full-text of the actual articles that appeared in the New
York Times between January 1, 1933 and December 31, 1947. The following sources were used:
1) Dr. Leff kindly made available the list
of articles used in her study.
2) All
entries in Queensborough Community College Holocaust Resource Center and Archives’
The New York Times Articles on the Holocaust 1933 – 1947 (2001).
3) Searching
Proquest’s The Historical New York Times database.
4) Searching
the annual index of The New York Times from 1933 through 1947.
Approximately 4,000 articles have
been identified. Each one can be viewed
by clicking on The Historical New York Times that follows each entry (A
subscription is required to access this
database). Significant articles are
identified with an asterisk (*).
Compiled by
Dr. Allan Mirwis, Readers Services Librarian,
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1933/01 08. p. 22. 2 Cuban Savants Flee to
Legation. HAVANA, Jan. 7 -- Dr. Gustave Cuervo Rubio and Dr. Domingo
Ramos, professors of the University of Havana, have taken refuge in the
Uruguayan Legation under the asylum doctrine adopted by the seventh Pan
American Conference at Havana in 1928, it was learned today. HNYT
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1933/01 15. p. 15. Restores Professor Attacked
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1933/02 03. p. 13. Reassures Jews Here. HNYT
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1933/02 08. p.
9. Nazis Belabor Foes while Asking Unity. |
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1933/03 03. p.
4. Weizmann Assails Reich Anti-Semites. |
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1933/03 03. p.
5. Nazis Act to Curb the Foreign Press. |
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1933/03 06. p.
7. Offices of Jews Raided. HNYT
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1933/03 10. p. 13. All Jewish Merchants Jailed
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1933/03 11. p.
9. Hitler Orders Curb on Reich Rowdyism. |
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1933/03 13. p.
6. Nation-Wide Protest on Hitler Demanded. Plans for a
concerted, nationwide expression of indignation at the anti-Semitism of Adolf
Hitler and his party were formulated yesterday by the national executive
committee of the American Jewish Congress at the Hotel Commodore. HNYT
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1933/03 13. p.
6. Poles in |
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1933/03 13. p. 15. Hitler Denounced in Purim
Sermons. The festival of Purim, described in the Book of Esther as the
celebration of the deliverance of the chosen people from Haman in |
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1933/03 15. p. 10. Charge Terrorism by Nazi
Troopers. VIENNA, March 14 -- Reports of the torturing of Communist,
Socialist, Radical and Jewish Deputies, newspaper men, lawyers and writers
are printed daily in the newspapers of Vienna, which has become for Germany
as for the Balkan nations an asylum for refugees. HNYT
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1933/03 16. p. 13. German Jews' Flight into |
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1933/03 17. p.
9. German Veterans Hear Jewish Plea. |
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1933/03 17. p.
9. Nazis Ban Concert by Bruno Walter. |
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1933/03 17. p. 10. Farmers in |
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1933/03 17. p. 15. Dr. Einstein Urges Hitler
Protests. Albert Einstein appealed yesterday for the moral intervention
of the world against Hitlerism in |
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1933/03 18. p.
6. Nazis Press Policy of Racial Purging. |
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1933/03 19. p. 29. 150 Oppositionists Arrested
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1933/03 19. p. 29. Plan Protest on Hitler. HNYT
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1933/03 20. p.
5. Nazi Foes here Calmed by Police. More than 1,500
representatives of Jewish organizations milled about the entrance to the
Hotel Astor last night seeking admittance to a conference called by the
American Jewish Congress to formulate plans for a nation-wide expression of
indignation against the anti-Semitism of Adolf Hitler. HNYT
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1933/03 21. p. 10. Boycott Advocated to Curb
Hitlerism. A strict boycott against German merchandise to serve as
protest against Nazi anti-Semitism was urged last night by former
Representative William W. Cohen at a meeting of the executive advisory
committee of the Jewish War Veterans of the |
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1933/03 21. p. 10. Nazis Hunt Arms in Einstein
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1933/03 21. p. 11. Calls on Churches to Oppose
Hitler. It is a duty of organized Christianity to take up the fight
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1933/03 21. p. 11. Polish Jews Condemn |
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1933/03 21. p. 11. Terror in |
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1933/03 22. p.
8. Nazi Persecution Stressed by Wise. |
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1933/03 22. p. 8. Urges Jews here to Act. HNYT
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1933/03 23. p. 10. German Paper here Scores
Hitler Rule. The following editorial, expressing a German-American viewpoint
of the conditions in |
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1933/03 23. p. 10. Protest on Hitler Growing
in Nation. The protest against the persecution of Jews in |
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1933/03 23. p. 11. Hope seen for End of Nazis'
Attacks. |
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1933/03 23. p. 11. Reich is Worried Over our
Reaction. |
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1933/03 23. p. 12. Ask House to Order a
Protest to Reich. |
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1933/03 24. p.
2. House Hearing Set on Reich Visa Move. |
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1933/03 24. p.
2. Nazis Resentful at Agitation here. |
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1933/03 24. p.
2. Polish Envoy in Reich Charges 25 Attacks. |
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1933/03 24. p.
3. City Protest Urged Over Nazi Policies. Action by the City of
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1933/03 24. p.
3. Hints Expulsion of Eastern Jews. HNYT
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1933/03 24. p.
3. Nazi Attacks Stir British Catholics. |
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1933/03 24. p.
3. O’Brien Reviews 4,000 Hitler Foes. The hurried call of the
Jewish War Veterans to "our former comrades in arms to make common cause
with us in a protest parade" was answered yesterday by 700 members of
their own organization, 400 of the American Legion, 200 of the National War
Veterans, 100 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and 100 of the Seventy-seventh
Division, supplemented by 500 marchers representing religious, civic and
fraternal organizations of the metropolitan district. HNYT
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1933/03 25. p. 10. Churches Protest on
Anti-Semitism. Protest against the discrimination against Jews under the
Hitler regime in |
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1933/03 25. p. 10. Move for Boycott Gaining in
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1933/03 26. p. 27. Boycott Divides Jews in |
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1933/03 26. p. 28. Rabbis Denounce Hitler in
Sermons. Protests against anti-Semitism in Germany, as manifested since
the rise to power of Adolph Hitler, found expression here yesterday in
sermons at Jewish services, in further plans for the protest meeting to be
held tomorrow night in Madison Square Garden and in resolutions and
statements by various organizations. HNYT
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1933/03 26. p. 29. |
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1933/03 26. p. XX4. Half Million Jews Affected
by Hitler Furor in |
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1933/03 27. p.
4. 250,000 Jews here to Protest Today. More than 250,000 Jews
in this city and 1,000,000 throughout the country will join in protest
meetings today against the persecutions and discriminations practiced against
Jews by the Hitler Government in |
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1933/03 27. p.
4. Attacks on Jews Scored in Pulpits. Condemnation of the
persecution of the Jews in |
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1933/03 27. p.
5. Equality for Jews in Reich Demanded. |
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1933/03 28. p. 11. Argentine Jews Protest. HNYT
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1933/03 28. p. 11. Calls |
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1933/03 28. p. 11. Prof. Einstein Hopes for
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1933/03 28. p. 12. Lehman Appeals to German
People. ALBANY, March 27 -- Addressing a mass meeting at the Capitol
Theatre here tonight in protest against the Hitler government's stand on
Jews, Governor Lehman appealed to the German nation to restore complete
religious equality. Speaking as a Jew whose forbears for many generations
lived in |
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1933/03 28. p. 13. Jews Fast in |
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1933/03 28. p. 13. Sirovich Demands Rebuke for
Hitler. WASHINGTON, March 27 -- The situation which has arisen over the
reported mistreatment of Jews in Germany by agents of the Hitler Government,
which has been before the House of Representatives here for a week in the
form of resolutions calling upon the State Department officially to condemn
such tactics, and also in proposed hearings on the resolutions, was climaxed
today when Representative Sirovich of New York bitterly denounced Chancellor
Hitler as "an insult to the great men who have graced that position in
the past. HNYT
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1933/03 28. p. 14. Ex-Crown Prince Denies
Atrocities. Former Crown Prince Frederich Wilhelm of Germany, in a
cablegram made public here yesterday afternoon, likened the reports of German
cruelty to Jews under the Hitler regime to the anti-German propaganda carried
on in America before the United States entered the World War. HNYT
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1933/03 28. p. 14. Suburban Groups Decry Nazi
Raids. Representatives of the Catholic and Protestant faiths joined
Jewish residents of communities throughout the suburban area last night at
meetings held coincident with the gathering in |
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1933/03 29. p.
8. Boycott Manifesto Includes 11 Orders. |
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1933/03 29. p.
8. Einstein Foresees Dangers for Jews. |
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1933/03 29. p.
8. Nationalist Urges Fairness to Nazis. |
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1933/03 29. p.
9. Aldermen Vote Hitler Protest. Without a single dissenting
vote, the Board of Aldermen adopted a resolution yesterday petitioning the
United States Government to make "vigorous and proper
representation" to the German Government against the persecution of Jews
by the Hitler regime. HNYT
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1933/03 29. p.
9. Invite Inspection of German Cities. Denial that "the
slightest acts of terror" had been committed in |
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1933/03 29. p.
9. Simon Is Reassured by Reich On Treatment of British Jews. HNYT
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1933/03 30. p. 12. Reich Warns Window-Breaking
Hits insurance Firms, Not Jews. HNYT
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1933/03 30. p. 12. Says Nazis Want Jobs. HNYT
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1933/03 30. p. 13. American Accuses Nazi of
Beating Him. One passenger who arrived here yesterday on the North German
Lloyd liner |
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1933/03 30. p. 13. Will Send |
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1933/03 31. p. 14. Links Hitler to Cuza. HNYT
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1933/03 31. p. 15. 6,000 Gather in Protest. HNYT
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1933/03 31. p. 15. Boycott Warning Sent from |
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1933/03 31. p. 15. Jews' Jobs Sought for Nazi
Backers. |
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1933/03 31. p. 15. Lords Cheer Plea for Jews
in Reich. |
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1933/03 31. p. 15. Nazis to Photograph Persons
Who Try to Enter Jews' Stores. HNYT
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1933/04 01. p. 10. French Prepare to Boycott
German Goods In Sympathy With Jewish Victims of Nazis. |
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1933/04 01. p. 10. |
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1933/04 01. p. 10. Nazi Rifles Close Stores in
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1933/04 01. p. 10. Nazis Lay Boycott to 'Lies'
of Jews. |
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1933/04 01. p. 10. Nazis Oust Jews from Law
Courts. |
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1933/04 01. p. 10. Says Jewish Blood
'Dominates' German. |
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1933/04 01. p. 10. Whips Crowd Into Frenzy. |
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1933/04 01. p. 11. Hitler Says Jews Get Fair
Treatment. Chancellor Adolf Hitler informed the United German Societies
of New York through, a spokesman yesterday that "German Jews will be
treated like all other nationals in accordance with their attitude to the
national government. HNYT
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1933/04 01. p. 11. |
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1933/04 02. p. 28. Lawyers See Plot in Letter
on Jews. George Z. Medalie, United States Attorney, began an unofficial
investigation yesterday into the source of a mimeographed letter addressed to
all Jews of the New York County Lawyers Association urging them to combat
Hitlerism by electing only Jews as officers of the association next May. HNYT
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1933/04 02. p. 28. Many Jews Flee Reich. HNYT
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1933/04 02. p. 28. Nazis Try to Rule on
Foreign Policy. |
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1933/04 02. p. 29. Nazi Women Urge 'Holy War'
on Jews. HNYT
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1933/04 02. p. 29. Would Curb Polish Jews. HNYT
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1933/04 03. p.
8. Boycott Assailed by German Paper. |
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1933/04 03. p.
8. Drive Opened here to Aid Reich Jews. A nation-wide campaign
for funds to aid the 600,000 Jews of Germany suffering from political
persecution and economic discrimination was launched by the American Joint
Distribution Committee at a conference yesterday afternoon. The relief will
be conducted on a wide basis and as a humanitarian enterprise devoid of any
political character. HNYT
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1933/04 03. p.
8. Germans Fearful Under Nazi Regime. |
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1933/04 03. p.
9. Boycott Of Jews Scored In Pulpits. The Rev. Ignatius W. Cox,
Professor of Ethics at |
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1933/04 03. p.
9. German Group in Plea. HNYT
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1933/04 03. p.
9. Refugee Jews Tax |
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1933/04 03. p. 23. |
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1933/04 03. p. 23. Trade Confidence Hard Hit
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1933/04 05. p. 10. Hugenberg Ousts Jews in
Ministry. |
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1933/04 05. p. 11. Anxiety of M.P.'S Over
Reich Grows. |
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1933/04 05. p. 12. Crowds Re-Enter Stores in |
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1933/04 05. p. 12. French Jews to Press
Boycott Till Reich Ends Discrimination. HNYT
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1933/04 05. p. 12. Jews Fleeing Reich Over
West Frontier. HNYT
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1933/04 05. p. 13. Jewish Business Resumes in
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1933/04 05. p. 13. Nazis Seek to Oust 1936
Olympic Head. BERLIN, April 3 -- The Olympic Games, scheduled to be held
in Berlin in 1936, were drawn into the Nazi’s anti-Semitic campaign when the
Nazi press opened fire on Dr. Theodor Lewald, chairman of the Reich committee
on physical training and a member of the international Olympic committee. HNYT
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1933/04 06. p.
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1933/04 06. p. 10. Hitler Protests are Renewed
here. The American Jewish Congress renewed yesterday its protest against
the continued repression of Jews in |
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1933/04 07. p. 10. Hitler Challenges American
Protests. |
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1933/04 07. p. 10. Stresses Exclusion by Us. |
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1933/04 07. p. 12. Rabbi Asks French Not to
Annoy Nazis. HNYT
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1933/04 07. p. 12. Reich Ban on Kosher
Slaughter Brings Move to Boycott Meat. HNYT
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1933/04 08. p.
8. Nazis Demand Divorce of Jewish Wives By Officials if They Are to
Retain Jobs. |
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1933/04 09. p. 15. Move Industry Halted in |
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1933/04 09. p. 15. Nazis here Score Jews. HNYT
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1933/04 10. p. 19. Hitler Policy Hits German
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1933/04 11. p. 14. Hitler is Likened to
Surf-Board Rider. Hitler is like a Hawaiian surf board rider, cleverly
keeping his place on the crest of a rising wave of nationalism, the Rev.
Everett R. Clinchy, director of the National Conference of Jews and
Christians and author of "The Strange Case of Mr. Hitler," said
yesterday at a luncheon of Advertising Men's Post 209 of the American Legion
at the Western Universities Club, 500 Fifth Avenue. HNYT
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1933/04 11. p. 14. |
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1933/04 11. p. 14. Reich Eases Ban on Jewish
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1933/04 12. p. 16. More Moderation is shown by
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1933/04 12. p. 22. Hitler Policies Scored by
Rabbis. Humanity is at the crossroads, with one way leading to madness
and the other to redemption, declared Rabbi Jonah B. Wise in his Passover
sermon at the Central Synagogue, Lexington Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street,
when he urged the Jewish people to he brave and have faith in the face of the
persecution unleashed against them in Germany under the regime of Adolf
Hitler. HNYT
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1933/04 12. p. 27. Loss of Net Star Faced by |
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1933/04 13. p.
8. Sweep of Officials is Decreed in Reich. |
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1933/04 14. p. 15. Untermyer Urges Anti-Nazi
Boycott. The Minnie Untermyer Memorial Theatre formally became part of
the Hebrew University In Palestine yesterday. Simultaneously, at a luncheon
in his honor here, Samuel Untermyer, the donor, said the regime of Adolf
Hitler had cast a pal over the dedication. HNYT
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1933/04 15. p.
6. 10,000 Jews Flee Nazi Persecution. Ten thousand Jews have
fled from Hitlerite terrorism in |
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1933/04 15. p.
6. Would Name |
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1933/04 15. p.
7. New Protest Called by Jewish Congress. A conference of
Jewish organizations and societies to renew the protest against the
persecutions of Jews in Germany and the mobilization of "vigorous
resistance'' to the anti-Semitic policies and actions of the Nazi government
was called yesterday for Wednesday evening, April 19, by the American Jewish
Congress. HNYT
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1933/04 16. p. 21. 3,000,000 in Reich Feel
'Cold Pogrom'. HAMBURG, April 15 -- The citizens of Hamburg, being urbane
and tolerant, are sending flowers to their Jewish friends and
fellow-residents these days as tokens of their sympathy and continued esteem,
and in part also as a mute protest against the new era of intolerance and
oppression decreed by the triumphant Nazis in the name of national
liberation. HNYT
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1933/04 16. p. 22. Parleys to Decide
Stahlhelm's Fate. BERLIN, April 15 -- Holy Week brought the first lull in
the terrific speed with which the government machinery has been functioning
ever since Jan. 30, when Adolf Hitler's Nazis and the Nationalists joined
hands in the Cabinet of national concentration. HNYT
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1933/04 16. p. 23. Hitler's Anti-Semitism
Assailed. HNYT
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1933/04 17. p.
6. New Curb Urged for Ousted Jews. |
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1933/04 17. p.
6. Unteriyer Scores Congress on Nazis. Criticism of Congress
for the silence of its members concerning anti-Semitism in |
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1933/04 18. p. 10. Jews Combat Nazi Boycott
With World-Wide Chain Letter. HNYT
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1933/04 18. p. 10. |
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1933/04 18. p. 18. |
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1933/04 18. p. 18. Text of Brundage Letter. BALTIMORE,
April 17 (AP) -- The opinion that Hitler's anti-Jewish campaign, may bring a
shift of the 1936 Olympic Games from Germany was expressed by Avery Brundage,
president of the American Olympic Committee, in a letter received here today.
HNYT
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1933/04 19. p. 10. Franck, Physicist, Quits
German Post. |
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1933/04 19. p. 10. Hitler 'Injustice'
Condemned by Bar. The Federal Bar Association of New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut made public yesterday a resolution adopted at a meeting of the
association at the Hotel Commodore extending "deepest fraternal sympathy
to fellow lawyers persecuted in Germany" because of their Jewish faith
and condemning the persecutions and economic destruction to which Jewish
lawyers are being subjected under the Hitler regime as a return to barbarism.
HNYT
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1933/04 19. p. 10. Hitler to Clarify Policy on
Jews. |
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1933/04 19. p. 21. |
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1933/04 20. p. 11. Demand New Move to Aid
Reich Jews. More than 1,000 delegates of 600 Jewish organizations in New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut, representing a membership of 2,000,000, met
in conference at the Hotel Pennsylvania last night under the auspices of the
American Jewish Congress and after renewing in a resolution the protest
against the treatment of Jews in Germany by the Hitler regime, declared for
more drastic measures to bring their plight to an end. HNYT
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1933/04 20. p. 11. Two Nazi Victims Assail our
Consul. A complaint, alleging failure to give protection to two Jews,
residents of Brooklyn and citizens of the United States, who were arrested
and mishandled by Nazis in Berlin during the recent anti-Jewish disorders in
Germany, will be filed today with the State Department against George S.
Messersmith, American Consul in the German capital, it was announced
yesterday at the office of the American Jewish Congress. HNYT
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1933/04 21. p. 10. Chaplains Assail Hitler. HNYT
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1933/04 23. p. E4. An American Speaks. HERMAN
A. METZ and VICTOR RIDDER, two outstanding American citizens, are now in |
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