Home Guard
A British civilian defense organization during World War II, the Home Guard was Britain's “last line of defense” against a feared German invasion and consisted of men excluded from military service due to age or other considerations.
Operation "Pied Piper"
In September 1939, the British government ordered large-scale evacuations from urban areas anticipated as targets of Nazi air raids. Approximately half of the c. 1.5 million people who evacuated from cities throughout Great Britain were children.
Evian Conference
A conference convened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from July 6-15, 1938 in Evian-les-Bains, France, to discuss which countries could receive Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution in Europe. […]
Oranienburg concentration camp (Germany)
Concentration camp established in March 1933 in the small city of Oranienburg some 12 miles north of Berlin. One of the earliest Nazi concentration camps, Oranienburg was initially run by the SA and was known for the brutal mistreatment of prisoners, who were primarily political opponents of the Nazi regime. The camp was closed in 1934. In 1936, the SS established the Sachsenhausen concentration camp just outside of Oranienburg.
Torah
The foundational religious text of Judaism, the Torah consists of the five books of Moses, which correspond to the first five books of the Christian Bible.