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Jews were highly overrepresented in positions of economic and political power as well as cultural influence at least into the 1940s. It was also a government that aggressively attempted to destroy all vestiges of Christianity as a socially unifying force within the Soviet Union while at the same time it established a secular Jewish subculture so that Judaism would not lose its group continuity or its unifying mechanisms such as the Yiddish language.

With the notable exception of Lenin (Vladimir Ulyanov), most of the leading Communists who took control of Russia in 1917-20 were Jews. Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein) headed the Red Army and, for a time, was chief of Soviet foreign affairs. Yakov Sverdlov (Solomon) was both the Bolshevik party's executive secretary and -- as chairman of the Central Executive Committee -- head of the Soviet government. Grigori Zinoviev (Radomyslsky) headed the Communist International (Comintern), the central agency for spreading revolution in foreign countries. Other prominent Jews included press commissar Karl Radek (Sobelsohn), foreign affairs commissar Maxim Litvinov (Wallach), Lev Kamenev (Rosenfeld) and Moisei Uritsky.6
Lenin himself was of mostly Russian and Kalmuck ancestry, but he was also one-quarter Jewish. His maternal grandfather, Israel (Alexander) Blank, was a Ukrainian Jew who was later baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church.7

PHOTOS FROM THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING THAT TOOK PLACE BETWEEN April 19-May 16, 1943

Jews captured during the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising are marched off to the Umschlagplatz for deportation. The original German caption reads: "March to the rail station." [Photograph #34082
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Jews captured during the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising are led away from the burning ghetto by SS guards. [Photograph #26536]
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SS troops arrest the Jewish department heads of the Brauer armament factory during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. [Photograph #26534]
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An SS Sergeant (Oberscharfuehrer) interrogates religious Jews captured during the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The original German caption reads: "Jewish rabbis." [Photograph #26539
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Jews captured during the Warsaw ghetto uprising are marched to the Umschlagplatz for deportation. [Photograph #26537]
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Jews captured by the SS during the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising are lined up against a wall prior to being searched for weapons. The original German caption reads: "Before the search." [Photograph #26563]
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DEPORTATIONS FROM THE WARSAW GHETTO

Jews during a deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto. [Photograph #05554]
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Jews who have been rounded-up for deportation in the Warsaw ghetto walk along a street to the assembly area. [Photograph #50329]
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THE LODZ GHETTO

Jewish police escort a group of women who have been rounded up for deportation in the Lodz ghetto. [Photograph #24416]
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Women twist straw into rope in the courtyard of the straw shoe factory in the Lodz ghetto. [Photograph #95197A]
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Group portrait of employees of the postal service in the Lodz ghetto. Herbert Grabe, the head of the Post Office, is sitting third from the left in the front row. [Photograph #24634]
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Jewish women iron sheets in either the laundry or a clothing factory in the Lodz ghetto. [Photograph #24628]
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Workers operate sewing machines in the saddle-making workshop of the Lodz ghetto. [Photograph #95181B]
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Workers sort coils of straw in the factory for straw shoes of the Lodz ghetto. [Photograph #95199A]
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NOT EVEN GHETTO CHILDREN LOOK EMACIATED – these children are below 10 y. old:
Children from the Marysin colony who were rounded-up during the "Gehsperre" action in the Lodz ghetto, march in a long column towards a deportation assembly point. [Photograph #50328]
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VARIOUS OTHER GHETTOS


Jews at forced labor constructing the wall around the Krakow ghetto. [Photograph #39064]
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Four young Jewish women pose wearing armbands in front of the home of Renie Scheinberg in the Borislaw ghetto. [Photograph #05076]
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Group portrait of Czech political prisoners who shared a cell bloc in Theresienstadt. [Photograph #42523]
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Musical performance in the Kovno ghetto. [Photograph #10920]
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