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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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World War II and the Holocaust

A brief synopsis of German occupation and then defeat.

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A Cherished Sweater: Kristine Keren's Green Sweater

For Kristine Chiger (later Kristine Keren post-war), then a 7-year old Jewish girl whose family was relocated to the Lvov ghetto, one piece of material comfort she clung to over the years was a minty…

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Adolf Eichmann Exhibit at Holocaust Museum St Petersburg FL

Born near Solingen, Germany to a Protestant family, Adolf Eichmann, nicknamed “Little Jew” by his friends and classmates due to his physical complexion, spent his childhood years in Linz, Austria.

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Rose Lipszyc

Rose Lipszyc was born to a Jewish family in Poland in 1929, and lived a life of relative peace, stability, and childhood innocence until the Nazis deported her family to the ghettos where her parents…

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Hitler Statue Placed Outside Warsaw Ghetto Stokes Outrage

JTA — An Italian artist placed a statue of Adolf Hitler in a building outside what used to be the Warsaw Ghetto. The statue, which depicts Hitler kneeling and is titled "Him," is part of a new…

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Dachau and Yad Vashem

Dachau, Munich Area, Germany: The barracks and lavatories were drab grays and browns, concrete and bricks, lifeless, seemingly unfit for human use. One could still run fingers over the “ovens” and…

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A Story from Yad Vashem

This April, Yad Vashem hosted a seminar for history teachers from Arab communities in Israel. The seminar brought together over 140 teachers from across the country, who were welcomed by Yad Vashem's…

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France to Return Art Stolen by Nazis

The French government has launched a new bid to return paintings stolen by the Nazis to their rightful owners - or, given the seven decades that has passed - their descendants. Depicting the Normandy…

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Why do People Still Deny the Holocaust

Did the Holocaust really happen?

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Holocaust - We Remember

As holocaust survivors are dying, it is important that we never forget.

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U.S. & Israeli Military Bands Surprise Holocaust Survivor

75 years ago today, the US Armed Forces liberated the Nazi concentration camp Dachau. Today is also Israel's 72nd Independence Day. ‬

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My First Kaddish

On March 19, 1942, I was sent by the Judenrat (the Jewish Council) to build underground storage facilities.

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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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