Holocaust
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Box Car
How did the Nazis transport people to the death camps? They used railroad Box Cars, which were essentially freight cars that trains used to transport cargo. These cars had no ventilation and no sanitation facilities.
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British Schindler Nicholas Winton Dies at 106
Most of us have heard of Oscar Schindler, especially because of the movie Schindler's List.
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Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz
On January 27, 2015, the free world celebrated the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz by the Soviet army.
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Child Holocaust Survivor Describes Rescue by Righteous Among the Nations
Lea Paz, née Weitzner, was born in 1930 in Lwow. This is her story.
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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
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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 through the ashes, and gaze
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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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Did Jews Fight the Nazis During WWII?
Did Jews go like sheep to the slaughter during World War II?
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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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Dr Michal Majercik
Janka-Hetty Fisch of Bratislava was seven years old in 1939 when Slovakia became an "independent" state under the patronage of Nazi Germany. Numerous anti-Jewish decrees were imposed on the Jewish community. Her family was evicted from
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Everyday Life in the Ghettos
What was it like for the Jewish people who were forced into ghettos by the Nazis?
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Glimpses of Jewish Life Before the Holocaust
What was life like in Jewish communities in Europe before the Holocaust?
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Hitler's "Great Man": Reversing the Legacy
In 1925 Adolf Hitler published his notorious two-volume manifesto titled Mein Kampf (My Struggle). It was an autobiographical book written in prison. This publication outlined Hitler’s ideology and aggressively
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Holocaust Remembrance
Holocaust Remembrance
with Otto Starr
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Holocaust Remembrance with Marie Silverman
Marie Silverman shares her story
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Martin Kapel: Germany, Poland and England
Martin Kapel 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 significant in Martin's
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Nuremberg Symposium: Intro to Nuremberg Laws
In 1933 the Nazi party seized control of the government in Germany. Overnight Germany was no longer a free democratic country, but had become a police state.
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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 little success without the assistance of
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Rescued by an Egyptian in Berlin
Dr. Mohamed Helmy was born in Khartoum in 1901 to Egyptian parents. In 1922 Helmy went to Germany to study medicine and settled in Berlin. After he completed his studies, he went to work at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, but was
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Righteous among the Nations - Corrie Ten Boom
At Least There Is Hope for a Tree . . . There is a young carob tree that isn’t quite leafy enough to offer much shade yet, but its space along the Avenue of the Righteous offers visitors another type of (dis)comfort: reflection.
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