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unusual facts about Jewish ghettos in Europe



Jewish emancipation

Before the emancipation, most Jews were isolated in residential areas from the rest of the society; emancipation was a major goal of European Jews of that time, who worked within their communities to achieve integration in the majority societies and broader education.

Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki

Holocaust survivor Yehudis Pshenitse has recounted the efforts of a parish priest from Nowy Dwór to save her life after the murder of more than 2000 Jews in Rembertów ghetto in August 1942.

The Golem: How He Came into the World

Architect Hans Poelzig designed the sets, a reproduction of the medieval Jewish ghetto of Prague.


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