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    Escaping the Holocaust

    Chiune 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…

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    U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Remembrance Ceremony

    The 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…

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    Representatives Pelosi and Chu on Honoring Holocaust Rescuers

    Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Judy Chu (D-CA) held a news conference to honor Holocaust rescuers.

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    The Escape Artist

    Author and Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland detailed the life of Rudolf Vrba, who spent two years at Auschwitz and became the first Jew to break out of the concentration camp. The Museu…

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    Holocaust Survivor Anna Grosz

    Holocaust 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…

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    President Biden Yad Vashem Wreath-Laying Ceremony

    President Biden participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Israel.

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    The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz

    Journalist Charlie Inglefield and Yifat Cohen-Meir, daughter of Holocaust survivor Thomas Geve, reflected on Mr. Geve’s over 80 illustrations he made as a young adult that document his life …

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    War and Genocide

    Historians Alexandra Richie and Michael Neiberg discussed war and genocide. This program was part of the 14th annual International Conference on World War II hosted by the National World War…

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    A Train Near Magdeburg

    Author Matthew Rozell recounted U.S. 743rd Tank Battalion’s interception of a train with 2,500 people being transported to a concentration camp and the reunion of the troops and survivors si…

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    The Light of Days

    Judy Batalion recounted the Jewish women who served as resistance fighters against the Nazis in Poland during World War II. This was a virtual event hosted by the Museum of Jewish Heritage i…

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    Author Discussion on Women Heroes of World War II

    Judy Batalion, the daughter of Holocaust survivors and author of The Light of Days, and Rebecca Donner, author of All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, shared the stories of women who fough…

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    Holocaust Survivor Peter Feigl

    During 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…

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    The Holocaust: One Family's Survival Story

    In observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the National World War II Museum hosted an online event with survivor Steven Hess. Hess and his sister Marion are one of the few set…

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    Young Americans' Reponse to the Nazi Threat

    The 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…

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    Teaching the Holocaust

    The National World War II Museum hosted a panel discussion on Holocaust denial and the importance on continued education and scholarship of World War II history. This talk was part of the mu…

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    Quest for Justice after the Holocaust

    In 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…

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    The Ravine

    National Book Award-winning historian Wendy Lower recounted the mass killings in Ukraine that occurred during the Holocaust. This was a virtual event hosted by Harvard Book Store in Cambridg…

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    The Holocaust at the Local Level

    Omer Bartov talked about the Holocaust experience in one Eastern European town that had been a community of Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews. Mr. Bartov is the author of Anatomy of a Genocide: Th…

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    Nuremberg Prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz

    At 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…

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    "Americans and the Holocaust" Exhibit, Part 1

    Curator Daniel Greene gave a tour of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit which uses films, artifacts, and documents to explore how the U.S. public and government officials re…

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