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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 days following the horrific atrocities.

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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.

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Christian Teacher Saving Lives of Jews

Jane Haining was a rural farmer’s daughter from Dumfriesshire, Scotland who excelled in foreign languages in school and started her career in the threadmaking…

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Emotional Reunion of Siblings Separated During the Holocaust

After 65 years, Holocaust survivor Hilda Schlick (formerly Glasberg) is tearfully, joyfully reunited with her brother, Simon Glasberg.

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Speaking to us from the Past: Colorizing Photos from the Holocaust

Turkish artist Yusuf Tolga Ünker colorizes black and white photos from the Holocaust.

Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz

On January 27, the free world celebrated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz by the Soviet army.

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Before the Death Camps: Hitler's Hidden Holocaust

Before the death camps there were the killing fields - mass graves of executed men, women, and children.

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Gisella Perl

Gisella Perl was born into a Jewish family in Hungary in 1907, and aspired to medical school despite the reluctance of her father who did not want her to lose her Jewish faith in a secular medical…

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Gertrude Luckner

Gertrud Luckner was born in the year 1900 in Liverpool.

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My Diary of a Nazi Death Camp Childhood

In 1944, Helga Weiss came to terms with the idea of dying – with one important condition. She was only 14 years old and had never been strongly religious, but as she waited in a queue at Auschwitz…

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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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Half the World Doesn't Know About the Holocaust

A shocking new study across 100 countries showed that 1 in 4 people are anti-Semitic!

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102-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Meets Nephew for the First Time

An emotional reunion between 102-year-old Holocaust survivor Eliahu Pietruszka and his nephew Alexandre Pietruszka.

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Beit Shalom Congregation in Kiev Honors the Memory of Holocaust victims

This year on January 27, the world commemorated not only the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, but also the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

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George Dilsizian

Georges Dilsizian fled to France in the end of the 19th Century because of the Turkish persecution of the Armenians. He got married and had thirteen children. His son André married Lea Albohair,…

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Martin Kapel: German, Poland and England

Martin was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1930. As the son of Polish parents Martin was legally classed as a Polish citizen by the nationality laws of both Poland and Germany. This fact was to become…

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How Denmark Saved its Jews During the Holocaust

One of the lessons to be learned form the Shoah is the extent to which human courage and caring, as evidenced by those who reached out to help the Jews, makes a difference.

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Hitler and the Mufti of Jerusalem

Benjamin Netanyahu recently spoke about how the Nazis were incited by the Grand Mufti to eliminate European Jews.

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Children During the Holocaust

Children were especially vulnerable in the era of the Holocaust. The Nazis advocated killing children of "unwanted" or "dangerous" groups in accordance with their ideological views, either as part of…

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Helena Sitkowska

In 1939 Helena Sitkowska was a widow, a retired teacher, and a mother of two: 15-year-old Andrzej and 10-year-old Magda. The family lived in Bielany, a precinct of Warsaw. Before, in the 1930s, they…

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