VIRGINA BEACH—Dec. 23, 1938: Alice Rice wanted to intercede on behalf of her Czech relatives. All she got in return was a reference to the requirements of the 1917 Immigration Act. ow.ly/uaou30mWMpG

WIEN—24. Dec. 1938: Die Polizei war ein zentrales Organ des NS-Staats. Sie um Hilfe bitten zu müssen, war keine angenehme Aufgabe. ow.ly/FmVg30mWMpd

VIENNA—Dec. 24, 1938: Police authorities being a central organ of the Nazi regime, turning to them for help was not a pleasant assignment. ow.ly/Fk4m30mWMpF

LEIPZIG—Dec. 25, 1938: When the furrier Siegmund Fein finally left Germany, he had lost his health and his property. ow.ly/Mduy30mWMpD

LEIPZIG—25. Dec. 1938: Als der Pelzhändler Siegmund Fein Deutschland schließlich verließ, hatte er Gesundheit und Besitz eingebüßt. ow.ly/jHJ730mWMpc

ARGENTINA—Dec. 26, 1938: Max Busse in Buenos Aires wanted to help his sister in Germany, but Argentine immigration policy left him little room to do so. ow.ly/TTgv30mWMpC

ARGENTINIEN—26. Dec. 1938: Max Busse in Buenos Aires wollte seiner Schwester in Deutschland helfen, aber die argentinische Einwanderungspolitik ließ ihm wenig Raum dazu. ow.ly/GBeD30mWMp6

VIENNA—Dec. 27, 1938: 16-year-old Heinz Ludwig had to go to England on his own, but there is hope that his family will soon be in safety, too. ow.ly/quwZ30mWMpA

WIEN—27. Dec. 1938: Der 16jährige Heinz Ludwig musste allein nach England reisen, aber es besteht Hoffnung, dass auch seine Familie bald in Sicherheit ist. ow.ly/CBoy30mWMp4

PALESTINE—Dec. 28, 1938: In fact, Stella would have preferred to live in England or America, but when the Mussolini Regime demanded that foreign Jews leave the country, Palestine was her only choice. ow.ly/OhXV30mWMpy

PALÄSTINA—28. Dec. 1938: Eigentlich wollte Stella lieber in England oder Amerika leben, aber als das Mussolini-Regime ausländische Juden zum Verlassen des Landes aufforderte, war Palästina ihre einzige Wahl. ow.ly/5cCe30mWMp0

SCHWANDORF, BAYERN—29. Dec. 1938: Die Schrecken der Novemberpogrome waren noch frisch, ihr Mann und ihr Sohn in einem Konzentrationslager. Lillian Friedmann brauchte keine weiteren Anreize zur Auswanderung. ow.ly/QU1S30mWMoZ

SCHWANDORF, BAVARIA—Dec. 29, 1938: With the horrors of the November Pogroms still fresh and her husband and son in a concentration camp, Lillian Friedmann needed no further incentive to make provisions for emigration. ow.ly/NeVx30mWMpx

PARIS—Dec. 30, 1938: Due to the central role of the press in streamlining public opinion, the free press was among the first targets of the Nazis. Forced into exile, the journalist Ernst Feder was surrounded by numerous people sharing the same fate. ow.ly/anGj30mWMpv

PARIS—30. Dec. 1938: Die freie Presse war unter den ersten Angriffszielen der Nazis. Ins Exil gezwungen, war der Journalist Ernst Feder von vielen Schicksalsgenossen umgeben. ow.ly/BgKM30mWMoV

NEW YORK—31. Dec. 1938: Rabbiner Prinz aus Berlin sah das neue Radioprogramm des German-Jewish Club als „Erziehung zu Menschen der Freiheit“. Besonders wichtig aber sei es, die Vergangenheit hinter sich zu lassen und wieder glücklich zu sein. ow.ly/SDIX30mWMoS

NEW YORK—Dec. 31, 1938: Rabbi Prinz from Berlin saw the new radio program of the German-Jewish Club as “an instrument of education as people of freedom.” But especially important, he thought, it was to leave behind the past and be happy again. ow.ly/seo130mWMpt

Why didn't LBI's 1938Projekt reveal what happened to the German and Austrian Jews struggling for survival in 1938? Renee Ghert-Zand explains how not knowing the full story can help students understand the past. timesofisrael.com/online-1938-pr…

I’m humbled. Items from the destroyed synagogue in Pforzheim are now memorialized in my residence. The Bloch family gave prayer books and a piece of a pew to the “1938 Projekt”, which documents the perspectives of Jews who suffered persecution at a turning point in history.