World War II and the Holocaust

Holocaust Uncovered (1945) - Warning: Distressing Images

Refik Veseli

In the fall of 1943, Refik Veseli, a sixteen-year-old Albanian photography student, received permission from his parents to hide Mosa Mandil and his family, Jewish refugees from Yugoslavia, in the…

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WWII Holocaust Heroes - Zookeeper's Jan and Antonina Zabinski

As many as 300 passed through the zoo, and many survived the war because of Jan and his wife.

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Italy and the Holocaust

The story of how Elizabeth Bettina's grandparents' small village in Campagna, Italy helped save Jews during the holocaust.

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Arek Hersh

"I was coming out from the school and a few Polish children shouted me "Go back to Palestine". My parents were born, my grandparents were born in Poland and I was born in Poland, a Polish subject,…

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Gas Chambers Discovered at Nazi Death Camp Sobibor

Holocaust Remembrance Day Tel Aviv, Israel

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Holocaust Memorial Day

Holocaust Memorial Day Kindertransport remembered in music

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Rescue of Children

During the Holocaust, countless Jewish organizations and individuals worldwide did what they could to save their brethren. While these rescue efforts were initiated by Jews, most would have had…

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Kristallnacht - The Great Moral test the World Failed

On the night of 9 November 1938, it became open. The destruction of European Jewry had begun with Kristallnacht, Night of the Broken Glass, the nation-wide pogrom against the Jews of Germany and…

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Syndrome K

In the fall of 1943, German soldiers in Italy began rounding up Italian Jews and deporting them—10,000 people were sent to concentration camps during the nearly two-year Nazi occupation. Most never…

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How Ordinary Bulgarians Saved Their Jewish Neighbors

As the deportation of Jews from neighboring countries and territories was underway, the Jews of Bulgaria, a Nazi ally during WWII, were spared.

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It's the Right Thing to Do

Abhorred by the actions of the Nazis, one leader in a distant southwestern Asian archipelago opened the doors of his country to Jews needing to flee their homelands, and saved the lives of…

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The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking

THIRTEEN years ago, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that…

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Raoul Wallenberg

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the capture of Raoul Wallenberg by the Russians.

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The Jews in Poland

The Jews had established a physical presence in Poland back to the days of the first century, and it was an important central trade and commercial route for business.

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