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9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

Yemima Hovav

Hedy Lamarr at age 7 1. Hedy Lamarr׳s parents came from a bourgeois Jewish background. Her father was born in Lvov, Poland, and her mother in Budapest. Assimilation was their fast track to economic security;...

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A Beautiful Mind – Hedy Lamarr

Yemima Hovav

Actress Hedy Lamarr may have owed her fame to ״standing still and looking stupid,״ but she was anything but. This assimilated Jewess combined aspects of her colorful past to patent something that could have torpedoed...

actorsArticlesHollywoodHolocaust dayIssue 32 | June 2016ViennaWomenWWII

Fight for the Spirit – Holocaust Leadership

Isaac Hershkowitz

Though physical help was largely beyond their power, Jewish religious leaders in the Holocaust sought to ease their followers’ spiritual pain, saving Judaism as well as Jews Isaac Hershkowitz The Holocaust challenged the humanity of...

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20th century

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

A Beautiful Mind – Hedy Lamarr

Fight for the Spirit – Holocaust Leadership

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20th century

9 Things You Didn’t Know About Hedy Lamarr

A Beautiful Mind – Hedy Lamarr

Fight for the Spirit – Holocaust Leadership

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