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Varian Fry: Taking a Stand Against the Nazis

Varian Fry (1907–1967) was an American journalist who helped anti-Nazi refugees escape from France.

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Anne Frank - The Only Known Video

Perhaps one of the most well-known persons who perished in the Holocaust is Anne Frank, due to the diary she wrote, which was published as a book and also became a movie.

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Surveys Show Shocking Lack of Holocaust Knowledge in Europe & North…

How much do you know about the Holocaust?

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Does Nothing Remain? Holocaust Survivors' First Moments of Liberation

In this video Dr. Na’ama Shik provides an introduction to the complexity of liberation and the physical and emotional state of the survivors during the early…

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I Survived Two Concentration Camps

93-year-old Eva Behar was taken to Auschwitz from her home in Romania in 1944.

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Liberators and Survivors: The First Moments

The liberation of concentration camps by the US Army at the end of WWII is an excellent entry point for US history into the study of the Holocaust.

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The Great Deportation of the Warsaw Ghetto - Abraham Lewin's Diary

The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of all ghettos established by the Nazis.

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The Story of Adolfo Kaminsky

Adolfo Kaminsky was a courageous member of the French Resistance who dedicated three decades of his life to forging identity papers – illegally, of course - to…

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Holocaust Remembrance with Marie Silverman

Marie Silverman shares her story

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Wannsee: The Road to the Final Solution

They met on January 20, 1942, at a luxury villa on park-like grounds overlooking Lake Wannsee, a recreation site a half-hour’s drive from Berlin.

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Dear Mirele - A letter of the Holocaust From a Mother to a Daughter

This is a heartwarming letter written by a mother to her daughter at the height of the Holocaust.

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The Lack of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust

Many factors made Jewish resistance to the Nazis during the Holocaust both difficult and dangerous.

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The Muslim Country that Saved Jews During the Holocaust

Turkey, a Muslim country, surprisingly did more to spare European Jewry from the Holocaust than the United States or Great Britain, saving the lives of…

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Gertrude Luckner

Gertrud Luckner was born in the year 1900 in Liverpool.

Historic and Unprecedented Events

So much is happening in Israel right now this update is needed.

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Holocaust Glossary

The following is intended to provide a frame of reference for discussion. Anti-Semitism Anti-Semitism is a prejudice and/or discrimination against Jews. Anti-Semitism can be based on hatred against…

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Family Reunited After a Pendant Identical to Anne Frank's is Found

A peculiar triangular pendant probably no longer than an inch in any direction, strikingly similar to a pendant known to be owned by world-known Holocaust victim Anne Frank, was recovered during…

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Rev Chris Edmonds/Jewish Leader Summit 2016

Pastor Chris Edmonds of Piney Grove Baptist Church on Maryville, Tennessee, is the son of the World War II hero, Master Sergeant Roddie Edmonds, who saved nearly 200 Jewish prisoners of war from a…

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This Teacher Outsmarted Hitler and His Nazi Regime

In Nazi Germany, when bullying, discrimination, and violence become everyday realities for Jewish children, Leonore Goldschmidt defies the system and opens her own private school for Jewish youth.

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Saved by Oscar Schindler

Testimony of holocaust survivor Sol Urbach.

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Holocaust Testimony. Jackie Albin

Jackie Albin’s Holocaust Testimony at Beth-El Shalom

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. SS and police units deported 265,000 Jews to the Treblinka killing center…

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A Survivor's Story, in Another Dimension

Pinchas Gutter sat in an armchair surrounded by hundreds of LED lights.

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The Jewish Ghettos of World War II

The ghettos of World War II were established by the Nazis to create a total confinement for the Jewish population, turning entire neighborhoods into a prison unlike the ghettos of centuries past.

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Nazi Anti-Jewish laws

Shortly after Hitler's appointment as Reich Chancellor on January 30, 1933, the Reichstag (German parliament) began to institute a series of anti-Jewish decrees. Sections of these laws are quoted…

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Eli Eli - Hannah Szenes Senesh

Eli Eli - Hannah Szenes Senesh - Sang in Hebrew & English - Holocaust Remembrance

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I Survived Two Concentration Camps

93-year-old Eva Behar was taken to Auschwitz from her home in Romania in 1944.

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Holocaust in North Africa

This is a forgotten tragedy. It was part of the Holocaust, but it didn’t occur in Europe…

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Germans Restore 1936 High Jump Record

NEW YORK – Gretel Bergmann matched a German high jump record on June 30, 1936.Two weeks later, the 5 feet, 3 inches she jumped in Stuttgart, Germany, was all but obliterated and she was kicked off…

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