Holocaust Victims and Survivors
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023, Holocaust survivors shared their stories at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
354 viewsOn International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2023, Holocaust survivors shared their stories at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
354 viewsThe U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum highlighted stories of Jewish people who defied the Nazi regime to celebrate the holidays amid occupation and the Holocaust.
204 viewsThe 1936 Olympic Games were held in Berlin, Germany, despite concerns about the racist Nazi government and Adolf Hitler. In an event hosted by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, participant…
930 viewsChiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania during World War II. Unbeknownst to his government, he issued hundreds of transfer visas to Jewish families trying to escape Nazi occupie…
426 viewsThe U.S. Holocaust Museum held its annual remembrance ceremony honoring the Holocaust’s estimated 12 million victims. The program included a keynote address on combating antisemitism from Am…
192 viewsGeneral Mark Milley, chair of the Join Chiefs of Staff, spoke about the Ritchie Boys, a World War II U.S. military intelligence unit which included many Jewish refugees from Nazism. This eve…
585 viewsHolocaust survivor Anna Grosz recalled her family’s experiences after Hungary annexed a portion of Romania that included their hometown, and then imposed anti-Semitic laws. The family was co…
2,096 viewsDuring World War II, over one million African Americans served in the armed forces. Washington Post writer DeNeen Brown and education consultant Lynn Williams discussed the challenges these …
550 viewsGeneral Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered that the horrors of the Holocaust be documented as World War II came to an end, determined that the evidence be preserved for future generations. It was …
1,736 viewsDuring the summer of 1942, Nazis and French collaborators began rounding up Jews living in the unoccupied region of France and deporting them to concentration camps in Poland. While he was a…
339 viewsThe U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum hosted an online panel discussion titled, “How Did Young Americans Respond to the Nazi Threat?” Museum historians Edna Friedberg and Rebecca Erbelding wer…
236 viewsIn a 1961 televised proceeding seen around the world, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was put on trial in Israel for his role in the Holocaust. Historians Edna Friedberg and Elizabeth White…
164 viewsEntertainer Josephine Baker, Baltimore resident Virginia Hall, and Muslim pacifist Noor Khan were recruited as spies during World War II. CIA Museum Deputy Director Janelle Neises and profes…
1,199 viewsThe U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum hosted a panel discussion looking at the continuing quest to bring former Nazis to justice. They explored questions raised by recent trials, such as if per…
548 viewsAt age 27, Benjamin Ferencz served as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials for the case against 22 leaders of the Einsatzgruppen, which were mobile Nazi death squads responsible…
2,271 viewsThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., hosted a commemorative ceremony to remember those who perished and to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day - observed…
451 viewsHolocaust survivor Halina Yasharoff Peabody recalled her family’s experiences after the Soviet Union’s 1939 invasion of Poland and eventual German occupation. Her father was deported to Sibe…
820 viewsHolocaust survivor Theodora Klayman recalled her family’s experiences after Nazis forces invaded Yugoslavia in 1941. Three-years-old at the time, she was visiting her grandparents in a small…
448 viewsHolocaust survivor Albert Garih recounted his family’s experience after the Nazi invasion of France in 1940. When he was about four-years- old, his father was deported to a forced labor camp…
406 viewsHolocaust survivor Irene Weiss recalled what happened to her family after Nazi Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939. She was 13 when her family was forced into an overcrowded ghetto and th…
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