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VICTIMS ... other groups for racial or ideological reasons. Among the earliest victims of Nazi discrimination in ... Reading Altman, Linda Jacobs. The Forgotten Victims of the Holocaust. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 2003
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victims of discrimination and persecution in Nazi Germany were political opponents -- primarily Communists ... were murdered at institutions throughout Greater Germany. The overwhelming majority of T-4 victims were ... murdered in gas chambers; the other victims were killed by starvation, deliberately untreated disease
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million European Jews were dead; more than one million of the victims were children. Even this statistic
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murders, tortures, and other atrocities committed in the name of medical science. The victims of these ... will appear in this courtroom. But most of these miserable victims were slaughtered outright or died in ... " Program, the systematic killing of those they deemed "unworthy of life." The victims included the ... most common victims of experimentation. After almost 140 days of proceedings, including the testimony
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confiscated property, valuables, and financial assets of Holocaust victims into the German war economy. Found
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humanity perpetrated against the nationals of the Allied belligerents. In the cases involving victims who ... officials to German police and military personnel. All of the victims were air force personnel shot down ... surrendering on the battlefield (as in the well publicized Malmedy massacre case, in which the victims were
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all of Europe’s Jews, ultimately killing six million in the Holocaust. Many others also became victims
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than one million of the victims were children. Driven by a racist ideology that viewed Jews as
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Behind Every Name a Story (BENAS) is a project of the Museum's Holocaust Survivors and Victims
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December 8, 1941. During the first five weeks, the victims were Jewish residents of nearby areas in ... grounds of the castle in Chelmno. Guarded by members of the Special Detachment, the victims disembarked ... by asphyxiation. After the victims were dead, the tube was detached from the exhaust pipe, and the ... previously excavated mass graves. Any victims found to be still alive as the corpses were being unloaded were
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installations for killing. Within hours of their arrival at such centers, the victims perished in especially ... of cremated victims from a common pile and placed them in urns to send to the relatives of the ... victims. The families or guardians of the victims received such an urn, along with a death certificate and ... , physicians and institutional administrators falsified official records to indicate that the victims died of
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staff, murdered their victims by using carbon monoxide gas generated by stationary engines and pumped ... prisoners of war in Treblinka II. Property belonging to the victims of the Operation Reinhard camps was ... Trawniki and Poniatowa. The overwhelming majority of victims in the Operation Reinhard killing centers were ... forces liquidated the ghettos and deported Jews by rail to those killing centers. The victims of Belzec
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Soviet Union. These victims included Jews, Roma (Gypsies), and officials of the Soviet state and the ... execution site, where trenches had been prepared. In some cases the captive victims had to dig their own ... graves. After the victims had handed over their valuables and undressed, men, women, and children were ... chassis of a cargo truck which employed carbon monoxide from the truck's exhaust to kill its victims. Gas
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by diesel engines) began at Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, all in Poland. As victims were "unloaded ... guards sometimes shouted at and beat the victims, who were ordered to enter the "showers" with raised ... were packed, the faster the victims suffocated. The Nazis constantly searched for more efficient means
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guerilla action. They suggested that the potential victims be drawn from individuals already condemned to ... originally suggested. ARDEATINE CAVES: THE VICTIMS On the following day, March 24, 1944, personnel from the ... the victims. Priebke and Hass had received orders to select the victims from prisoners who had already ... victims. ARDEATINE CAVES: THE SHOOTINGSThose slated for killing arrived at the caves with their hands tied
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The Nazis subjected millions of people (both Jews and other victim groups) to forced labor under ... Solution," victims of Nazi policies of deportation for forced labor.
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. Resident physicians and staff directly killed the majority of these victims, among whom were German
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Killing Squads (Einsatzgruppen)Expansion of the Concentration Camp SystemKilling CentersAdditional Victims
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organizations. As for myself, I have been involved in the efforts to help Sudanese victims for some years. It ... ,000 victims, innocent men, women and children, could have been averted. Why wasn’t it?” His answer was honest ... . Not to assist Sudan’s victims today would for me be unworthy of what I have learned from my teachers ... kill and die. Should the Sudanese victims feel abandoned and neglected, it would be our fault – and
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know how to remember the victims, their solitude, their helplessness? They left us without a trace, and ... everybody. Whoever kills, kills more than his victims. We didn't even talk. Some of us tried. No one wanted ... , the killers killed, the victims perished. We must remember the old men and women whispering ancient ... relate about a time of fear and darkness when so many, too many victims felt abandoned, forgotten
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hidden from view of victims waiting in the reception area. A narrow enclosed path called the "tube ... later months, as transport arrivals became more chaotic due to increased awareness of the victims of ... victims in mass graves. Other prisoners selected for temporary survival worked in the administration ... ” of new arrivals. They also sorted the possessions of the murdered victims in preparation for
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force. The reception area held the railway siding, ramp, barracks where the victims undressed, and ... warehouses for the victims' possessions. The killing area included gas chambers, mass graves, and barracks ... at a time entered the reception area, where the camp guards ordered victims out of the trains and ... the killing area. They removed bodies from the gas chambers and buried the victims in mass graves
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labor. It occasionally functioned as a killing site to murder victims who could not be killed at the ... property and valuables taken from the Jewish victims at the killing centers. The SS considered the killing
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1945, the facility claimed the lives of an additional 4,400 victims by lethal overdoses of medication ... prosecutors, however, found a loophole. Among the Hadamar victims were 476 Soviet and Polish forced laborers

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