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Auschwitz through the Lens of the SS: Photos of Nazi Leadership at the Camp
In January 2007, the Museum acquired a personal album containing 116 photographs taken in 1944 of SS officers at Auschwitz-Birkenau—providing a rare and chilling look at the camp’s Nazi leadership.
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Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of Liberation
In 2015, the world marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi concentration camps by Allied forces. Explore unique items in the Museum's collection that shed light on the experiences of liberators and survivors, and consider what this watershed moment means for us today.
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Do You Remember, When
A teenager in Berlin before he was deported to Auschwitz, Manfred Lewin created a keepsake book to memorialize his relationship with Gad Beck and the community of Jewish youth from which the two young men drew their strength and their solace.
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Holocaust by Bullets
Working closely with Museum staff and using the Museum’s archives to aid his search, Father Desbois and his team have crisscrossed the countryside in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Moldova, Lithuania, and Romania in an effort to locate every mass grave and site at which Jews, Roma, and other victims were killed during the Holocaust.
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Music of the Holocaust: Highlights from the Collection
For many victims of Nazi brutality, music was an important means of preserving and asserting their humanity. Like “audio snapshots,” works of music from the Holocaust offer a telling glimpse into the events and emotions their creators and first audiences experienced firsthand.
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Offenbach Archival Depot: Antithesis to Nazi Plunder
During the Holocaust much of Jewish cultural heritage was destroyed, but at war’s end Allied forces uncovered huge stores of looted books, often lying strewn in makeshift depots. Learn about the identification and restitution efforts that followed.
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Remembering D-Day
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, France, opening a long-awaited second front in western Europe. Explore this turning point in World War II through the oral histories, diaries, and paintings of those who lived it.
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Sephardic Communities and the Holocaust
Increasing public interest in the fate of Jews of Spanish and Greek descent living in southeastern Europe has prompted the Collections Division to scout out new sources of material about these communities and reexamine older collections in order to identify those that bear witness to the experience of Sephardi Jews.
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Silent Witness: The Story of Lola Rein and Her Dress
As a child, Lola Rein survived the Holocaust by hiding in a hole in the ground for seven months, wearing her only possession—a dress sewn by her mother. Now part of the Museum’s collection, this dress bears silent witness to Lola’s extraordinary story.
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The Alfred Rosenberg Diary
After a nearly 17-year search, the diary of Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg became part of the Museum’s collection. Available online for the first time, it can help shed light on the mind-set of a Holocaust perpetrator.
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