Holocaust

• 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

• Holocaust Remembrance Day

  Israel became a nation after the horrors done to the Jewish people during the Holocaust.

• Holocaust Remembrance with Marie Silverman

  Marie Silverman shares her story

• Holocaust Survivors - Liberated but Not Free

  This video starts with a touching story about some of the survivors rescued from Auschwitz.  It also brings up a good point by reminding us that while many people were able to celebrate the end of the war, the end came too late for

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• Holocaust Testimony - Otto Starr

  The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. 

• How Denmark Saved its Jews During the Holocaust

  One of the lessons to be learned from 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.

• How Did a Chinese Diplomat Save 10,000 Jews in WWII

  In this video “How Did a Chinese Diplomat Save 10,000 Jews in WW2? | Unpacked” you will learn about how a man with no Jewish ancestry was able to do so much for those who did. Although he did a lot to help the Jewish people

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• Israel Honors Chiune Sempo Sugihara for Saving Jews

  Israel named one of its streets after Chiune Sempo Sugihara. Chiune was a Japanese diplomat who was very helpful in saving the lives of many Jews during World War II. (“Israel Names Street after Japanese Diplomat…”, 2016) We can learn

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• Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust

  Did you know, that the Germans forced Jews into Ghettos?  What is a ghetto? I always thought it was just a place were poor people lived.  I had not ever thought of the ghetto as being a designed and orchestrated area to confine certain

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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.

• 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.

• Righteous Among the Nations: John Weidner

  John Weidner was born in Belgium but moved to France when the Nazis invaded western Europe.

• Senator Rick Scott Donates Portion of Salary to Florida Holocaust Museum

  The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg FL proclaimed:

  We’re proud to announce that Senator Rick Scott and Mrs. Ann Scott have chosen to donate a portion of his quarterly salary to The Florida Holocaust Museum in memory

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• Sir Nicholas Winton

  Man saves hundreds, and now unknowingly is sitting among them.

• Sir Nicholas Winton: The Life of a Holocaust Hero

  Sir Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds from the Nazis, died in 2015 at age 106.

• Sol Urbach - Saved by Oskar Schindler

  Holocaust survivor Sol Urbach remembers Oskar Schindler, who was granted the honorific title Righteous among the Nations.