My Sister’s Eyes - Resources 

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KAPLAN FAMILY

“Jewish Members of Lodz City Council, 1919-1939.” Welcome to Jewish Lodz.  Accessed February 20, 2017. http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Lodz/noted.htm#Community Leaders.

KRAKOWIAK FAMILY

“Makbi.” Virtual Shtetl. Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/term/446,maccabi-in-poland/

“Ha Shomer Hatzair.” Jewish Virtual Library. Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/hashomer-hatzair. 

“85 years, one kibbutz.” Ynet News. Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3360367%2C00.html. 

PRE-WORLD WAR II

“Nazi Laws on Jews Put into Effect.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA). Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.jta.org/1935/09/17/archive/nazi-laws-on-jews-put-into-effect. 

“Berlin, Preparing for Olympics, Removes Last Anti-Jewish Signs.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.jta.org/1936/04/09/archive/berlin-preparing-for-olympics-removes-last-anti-jewish-signs. 

“40 Private Refugee Bodies Form United Front at Evian.”  Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Accessed March 12, 2017. http://www.jta.org/1938/07/08/archive/40-private-refugee-bodies-form-united-front-at-evian.

WORLD WAR II

“Battle of Bzura River.” Youtube. Accessed February 20, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKejEKt70FA. 

Engelking, Barbara, and Jacek Leociak; translated by Emma Harris. The Warsaw Ghetto: A guide to the perished city. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. Print.

“Jewish Congress Urges World Action Against Treatment of Jews in Poland.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.jta.org/1939/12/07/archive/jewish-congress-urges-world-action-against-treatmen-of-jews-in-poland.

BORDEAUX, FRANCE

Sousa Mendes Foundation. Accessed February 20, 2017. http://sousamendesfoundation.org/ 

“Bordeaux Crowded with Refugees; Jewish Groups Plan Emergency Offices.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.jta.org/1940/06/05/archive/bordeaux-crowded-with-refugees-jewish-groups-plan-emergency- offices

http://www.historynet.com/lisbon-harbor-of-hope-and-intrigue.htm offices. 

“Barbed Wire Thrown Around Warsaw Ghetto.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.jta.org/1939/11/21/archive/barbed-wire-thrown-around-warsaw-ghetto#ixzz2qxxOrHxe.

PORTUGAL

“Jews Press Efforts to Escape from France; 760 More Reach Portugal.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.jta.org/1940/07/14/archive/jews-press-efforts-to-escape-from-france-760-more-reach-portugal. 

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.jdc.org/. 

“Portugal Fears Loss of Freedom if Nazis Drive for Gibraltar; Gestapo Lists Jews.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.jta.org/1940/07/15/archive/portugal-fears-loss-of-freedom-if-nazis-drive-for-gibraltar-gestapo-lists-jews. 

“Nazis Let Jews Leave Poland on Payment of $750.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.jta.org/1941/01/17/archive/nazis-let-jews-leave-poland-on-payment-of-750-emigration-from-lithuania-spurred. 

“Britain Will Allow Stranded Polish Jews to Enter Jamaica.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.jta.org/1942/01/09/archive/britain-will-allow-stranded-polish-jews-to-enter-jamaica. 

“JDC Arranges Emigration of Polish-Jewish Refugees from Lisbon to Jamaica.” Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.jta.org/1942/01/12/archive/jdc-arranges-emigration-of-polish-jewish-refugees-from-lisbon-to-jamaica.  

GIBRALTAR CAMP,  JAMAICA, BWI

Cooper-Clark, Diana. Dreams of Re-Creation in Jamaica: The Holocaust, Internment, Jewish Refugees in Gibraltar Camp, Jamaican Jews and Sephardim. Victoria: FriesenPress, Inc., 2017. Print.

“Polish-Jewish Refugees in Jamaica Seek Permanent Haven Elsewhere” Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.jta.org/1942/04/07/archive/polish-jewish-refugees-in-jamaica-seek-permanent-haven-elsewhere. 

The Center for Jewish History. YIVO Institute. HICEM Archives. Accessed February 20, 2017. http://www.cjh.org/, https://www.yivo.org/. 

OTHER

“Passengers sailed SS Serpa Pinto, destination Jamaica: January 24th, 1942 (id: 31562).” Accessed February 20, 2017. https://resources.ushmm.org/vlpnamelistimages/ReferenceCollection/AC0366/AC0366.PDF. 

“Children During The Holocaust.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Accessed February 20, 2017. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005142.