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Rebecca Judith Ish-Kishor (25 March 1892 – 1971) was an American writer of Jewish children's historical fiction. [1] She was born in Boston in 1892, the daughter of Zionist leader Ephraim Ish-Kishor . She was raised in London before returning to the U.S. to study at Hunter College in New York.
Her older sister, Judith Ish-Kishor, was a pioneering writer of Jewish children's literature in English. [2] Sulamith began writing at age 5 and had several of her poems printed in British publications by the time she was 10. [1] When Sulamith was 13, her family moved to New York City (like the family in her novel Our Eddie). [1]
The prison was built as part of a system of similar prisons in the region in the 1930s during the Soviet era. [2] [5] University of Oxford scholar Judith Pallot described the prison as being "stuck in time for 50 years." [2] Inmates are housed dormitory-style with 100 bunk beds in a large room. [2] Personal belongings are not permitted. [2]
Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British television film which aired on ITV and CBS. [1] It is the story of the mass escape from the Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor, the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps (uprisings also took place at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka).
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Megiddo Prison is an Israeli prison facility located near the Megiddo Junction. [1] The prison itself was built over the ruins of the Jewish village of Othnai, which was later replaced by a Roman army camp. Remains of one of the oldest churches in the world have been found there. [2] [3]
Ish Kabibble, stage name of Merwyn Bogue (1908–1994), American comedian and cornet player; Ish Ledesma (Ismael Angel Ledesma, born 1952), American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer; Ishan Morris, stage names iSH, or Ish Morris, Canadian singer and actor; Ish Polvorosa (Esmilzo Joner Polvorosa, born 1997), Filipino volleyball player
The story focuses on Lt. Margaret Ann "Maggie" Jessup, the head army nurse who survived the camp and testified against the Japanese. She lobbied for awards of valor to be given to the women prisoners, in front of the United States Congressional subcommittee years later as a colonel.