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He was sent to Budapest in 1942 where he helped Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian veteran of the Spanish Civil War, with saving the lives of 5, 200 Jews from the Holocaust / Shoah by issuing them fake Spanish papers ; as Spain was neutral in the war, this made the difference between life and death for those Jews.
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It was to him that Barton had sent Carl Dill on Dill's release from the prison.
My wife died in childbirth after I was sent away.
Every plane that could fly was sent into the air.
The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??
Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.
At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:
Ann, pleased to see her friend happy, was intrigued by the new fruits a friend of Captain Heard had sent on board for their enjoyment.
As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.
Last, not least, there are some poems which K. King sent me ( addressed to herself ) when I was preparing a fresh volume, asking me to include them.
Without further inquiry, Pike jumped to the conclusion that Robinson was guilty, and, following the honorable route that would eventually lead to the dueling ground, sent a message to Robinson through his friends, demanding that he either confirm or deny his complicity.
Morgan took the suggested steps, but when Mrs. Sanderson appeared, there was nobody with her but her husband, whom he promptly sent to headquarters to be questioned.
His assignment was not a new one because Baker had sent him to the Mexican border in 1916 to investigate lurid newspaper stories about lack of discipline, drunkenness, and venereal disease in American military camps.
The plane was sent back to the United States, for a change, but Castro kept the crazy gunman, who will prove a suitable recruit to the revolution.
Thus, when the Russians sent up their first sputnik, American chagrin was human enough, and American determination to put American satellites into orbit was perfectly understandable.
When he was in the war, he was in Law or Supplies or something like that, and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals -- just like the one we sent in for Trig -- and go away with a real glow.
In fact, he intimated clearly that that was the reason that Wilson had been sent here -- to make a larger contribution of dollar money.
In any event Rector sent him to the local hospital to have it checked, telling him to keep his ears open while he was in the village to see if he could find out what Kayabashi was planning.
To determine the practice and attitude of municipal governments concerning tangible movable property, a questionnaire was sent to all local government assessors or boards of assessors in Rhode Island.
General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.
Beccaria had almost stumbled on a lead to the relationship between electricity and magnetism when a discharge from a Leyden jar was sent transversally through a piece of watch-spring steel making its ends magnetic.
As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.
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Serene ( Mrs. Wilson ), 23, was born in Budapest and raised in Manhattan.
I, for one, rather regret that Schnabel didn't collaborate with the Budapest Quartet, whose rugged, athletic playing was a good deal closer to this pianist's interpretative outlook than the style of the Belgian group.
Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.
* A statue of him was installed in front of one of the houses which Bartók owned in the hills above Budapest.
It was founded by Zsuzsanna Budapest in the United States in the 1970s, and is notable for its focus on the worship of the Goddess ( usually Artemis ; Roman: Diana ), and on feminism.
The revival of Dianic Wicca was practiced on Winter Solstice 1971, in which Zsuzsanna Budapest led a ceremony in Hollywood, California.
At the International Zoological Congress at Budapest in 1927, Mayr was introduced by Stresemann to banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild, who asked him to undertake an expedition to New Guinea on behalf of himself and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
* 2002 – The Budapest Open Access Initiative, one of the cornerstones of the Open access movement, was released to the public.
The station in Budapest was an innovative design.
The usual pattern for building a railway terminus was to conceal the metal structure behind an elaborate facade: Eiffel's design for Budapest used the metal structure as the centrepiece of the building, flanked on either side by conventional stone and brick-clad structures housing administrative offices.
He was born as Pólya György in Budapest, Austria-Hungary to originally Ashkenazi Jewish parents Anna Deutsch and Jakab Pólya who converted to Roman Catholicism in 1886.
20 %- 20 % of the shares were sold to foreign institutional investors and given to the Social Security organizations, 5 % were bought by employees, and 8 % was offered at the Budapest Stock Exchange.
This involves Hungary and Czechoslovakia, and. was agreed on September 16, 1977 (" Budapest Treaty ").
In 1880, he went to Budapest to study with Franz Liszt, only to find out that Liszt was in Weimar, Germany.
Polgár was born on July 23, 1976, in Budapest, to a Hungarian Jewish family.
She was a member of the chess club in Budapest where she would get experience from master level players.
When Tiso proved reluctant to do so on the grounds that the autonomy that had existed since October 1938 was sufficient for him, and to completely sever links with the Czechs would leave Slovakia open to being annexed by Hungary, Ribbentrop had the German Embassy in Budapest contact the Regent, Admiral Miklós Horthy.
Imi Sde-Or ( formerly Imrich Lichtenfeld ) was born in 1910 in Budapest, Hungary and grew up in Pozsony ( today: Bratislava, Slovakia ).
His work on railway electrification was done at the Ganz electric works in Budapest.
Young Jeanneret was attracted to the visual arts and studied at the La-Chaux-de-Fonds Art School under Charles L ' Eplattenier, who had studied in Budapest and Paris.
Polanyi, born Polányi Mihály () in Budapest, was the fifth child of Mihály and Cecília Pollacsek, secular Jews from Ungvár ( then in Hungary but now in the Ukraine ) and Vilnius in Lithuania, respectively.
His research, which was encouraged by Albert Einstein, was supervised by Gusztáv Buchböck, and in 1919 the University of Budapest awarded him a doctorate.
In 2010 there was only one synagogue formally linked with Masorti Olami-Dor Chadash in Budapest.
Stein was born in Budapest into a Jewish family.
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