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The Jewish Cemetery - Virginia City 1862. —. The Jewish cemetery is located a few miles north of where you stand. It was the norm for organizations to have separate cemeteries. However the commonalities of the Comstock population are of more significa…
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Little Camp (Buchenwald Concentration Camp). —. On this site was the infamous "Little Camp". Separated by only a barbed-wire fence from the Main camp, its inmates were subjected to the greatest suffering of all those at Buchenwald. Begun in …
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Lt. Col. John Henry Patterson. —. John Henry Patterson was born in Ireland on November 10, 1876. He was an Irish Protestant who had a thorough knowledge of the Bible, and was sympathetic to the Jewish people in biblical times and to the Zionist idea. …
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North Dakota Jewry. —. Jews have been part of North Dakota's social, economic, agricultural and political life since territorial days. Between the 1880's and the 1920's, aided by the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Society, primarily Russian and Ro…
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Temple Aaron 1889. —. Jews have been part of Trinidad's social, economic and political life since first arriving as traders along the Sante Fe Trail. Maurice and Isaac Wise opened a store on Main Street in 1867. The Jaffa Brothers' Trading Company was…
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Temple Israel: A Frontier Synagogue and Museum. —. The Jewish Settlement The group of Jews in Leadville traced their roots to Germany. They tended to be assimilationists and practiced Reform Judaism, including worship services largely in English, wom…
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Hebrew Cemetery: Final Resting Place of Leadville Jews. —. The Hebrew Cemetery . The Hebrew Benevolent Association established the Hebrew Cemetery in January,1880, in the Southwest corner of Leadville's Evergreen Cemetery with the transfer of 101,000…
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Georgia Anti-Lynching Memorial. In respectful memory of the thousands across America, denied justice by lynching; victims of hatred, prejudice, and ignorance. Between 1880-1946, ~570 Georgians were lynched..
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Rosa Parks. . Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913 - 2005) was an iconic activist during the mid twentieth century civil rights movement. Born in Tuskegee, Parks later moved with her mother to Pine Level located near Montgomery, Alabama. She was encouraged by t…