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…
426 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 viewsRepresentatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Judy Chu (D-CA) held a news conference to honor Holocaust rescuers.
630 viewsAuthor 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…
816 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 viewsPresident Biden participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem, Israel.
311 viewsJournalist 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 …
126 viewsHistorians 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…
340 viewsAuthor 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…
708 viewsJudy 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…
369 viewsJudy 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…
409 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 viewsIn 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…
383 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 viewsThe 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…
233 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 viewsNational 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…
502 viewsOmer 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…
794 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 viewsCurator 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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