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276. Women survivors in Bergen-Belsen watch British troops forcing former SS guards to bury corpses in a mass grave.
not subjected to forced labor. However, beginning in the spring of 1944 the situation deteriorated ... Army retreated in the face of the advancing Allies, the concentration camps were evacuated and their ... prisoners sent to Belsen. The facilites in the camp were unable to accommodate the sudden influx of ... thousands of prisoners and all basic services -- food, water and sanitation -- collapsed, leading to the
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277. German-Jewish leader, Julius Brodnitz, attends a sporting event in 1934.
became one of the most eminent German-Jewish attorneys. He also was active in Jewish communal causes ... He became a founding member of the Centralverein, an organization dedicated to combating antisemitism ... -1936). He also served on the board of ORT. After the rise of Hitler, Julius Brodnitz became a ... founding member of the National Representation (Reichsvertretung) in 1933. Though not a Zionist, he
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278. Ardeatine Caves Massacre
dispersed into the crowd of bystanders and evaded capture. The targeted police unit, a battalion of the 11th ... World War II on the side of the Axis. Italy Surrenders to the ... Allies Following the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 and the subsequent vote of no ... -confidence against Mussolini at the meeting of the Fascist Grand Council on July 25, King Victor Emmanuel III
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279. Antisemitism in History: Nazi Antisemitism
In the context of the economic depression of the 1930s, the Nazi ... Party gained popularity in part by presenting "Jews" as the source for a variety of political, social ... Hitler's theories of racial struggle and the "intent" of the Jews to survive and expand at the expense of ... and mandated the total separation of "Aryans" and "non-Aryans." On November 9, 1938, the Nazis
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280. Nazi Propaganda
study of the truth, in so far as it favors the enemy, and then set it before the masses with academic ... Following the Nazi seizure of power ... . There were several audiences for Nazi propaganda. Germans were reminded of the struggle against foreign ... Nuremberg Race Laws of September) and in 1938 (prior to the
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281. Rescue in Denmark
Nor did they do anything to help Jews and other victims of Nazi policies. Throughout the Holocaust ... Jews would have survived the Holocaust in Denmark. There are numerous stories of brave ... millions of people silently stood by while they saw Jews, Roma (Gypsies), and other "enemies of the Reich ... being rounded up and deported. Many of these bystanders told themselves that what they saw happening was
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282. German soldiers force Jewish men to perform calisthenics on Eleftheria (Freedom) Square in Salonika.
In the first large scale public action against the Jews of Salonika, General Kurt von Krenzski, the ... In the first large scale public action against the Jews of Salonika, General Kurt von Krenzski, the ... (Freedom) Square on the morning of 11 July 1942 to register for work details. Instead of receiving work ... Italian soldiers humiliated them in front of the non-Jewish population by forcing them to perform
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283. German soldiers force Jews assembled on Eleftheria (Freedom) Square to perform calisthenics.
In the first large scale public action against the Jews of Salonika, General Kurt von Krenzski, the ... In the first large scale public action against the Jews of Salonika, General Kurt von Krenzski, the ... (Freedom) Square on the morning of 11 July 1942 to register for work details. Instead of receiving work ... Italian soldiers humiliated them in front of the non-Jewish population by forcing them to perform
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284. A large crowd gathers in an auditorium for a rally for sign blood and soil
his leadership in the May 1940 invasion of France and the April 1941 Balkans campaign. In June 1941 ... Hitler" [In memory of my service with the SS bodyguards of Adolf Hitler]. The original owner of the ... album is thought to be Gerhard Pleiss. The album was brought this back from Europe by the father of the ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Wendie Theus
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285. A Jewish born woman in hiding conducts a school orchestra in a Catholic school near Budapest.
Judit Schichtanz is the daughter of Lorand and Ella (Lichtig) Schichtanz. She was born April 14 ... 19 Judit Schichtanz is the daughter of Lorand and Ella (Lichtig) Schichtanz. She was born April 14 ... teacher. The Jewish family was quite assimilated and always had a Christmas tree at home. After one of ... occupation of Hungary in March 1944, but two months later, on May 17, Lorand was drafted into the Hungarian
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286. Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler holding his daughter Gudrun while seated in an audience.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister ... Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister of the ... Interior of Nazi Germany from 1943 to 1945. Himmler, born in Munich, was the son of a pious Catholic ... the Eleventh Bavarian Regiment. After World War I Himmler studied agriculture at the Munich School of
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287. German spectators at a Nazi rally stand alongside a monument decorated with Nazi flags and a swastika emblem in Berlin.
footage of wartime Europe to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. ... and culture of individuals and communities in a variety of countries around the globe. He never ... received formal training as a photographer, but learned during the course of his many travels. Bryan ... soldiers from the battlefield of Verdun to hospitals. During his college years Bryan started making
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288. Reichstag Speech
genocide. To justify the murder of the Jews both to the perpetrators and to bystanders in Germany ... Adolf Hitler tells the German public and the world that the outbreak of war would mean the end of ... European Jewry—the "annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe." Inspired by Hitler's theories of ... racial struggle and the supposed "intent" of the Jews to survive and expand at the expense of Germans
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289. Reichsfuehrer-SS Heinrich Himmler holding his daughter Gudrun at a function at her elementary school in Berlin-Dahlem.
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister ... Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945), Reichsfuehrer-SS, head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS, and Minister of the ... Interior of Nazi Germany from 1943 to 1945. Himmler, born in Munich, was the son of a pious Catholic ... the Eleventh Bavarian Regiment. After World War I Himmler studied agriculture at the Munich School of
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290. Students at a school for Jewish DPs in Munich, attend a demonstration calling for free immigration to Palestine.
Grigory (now Zvi) Griliches is the son of Yefim and Clara Griliches. He was born September 12 ... 1931 Grigory (now Zvi) Griliches is the son of Yefim and Clara Griliches. He was born September 12 ... In August 1941, soon after the German invasion of Lithuania, the family was forced to move to a one ... family from deportation during the Great Action of October 1941. During his first two years in the
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291. Documenting Life and Destruction
volumes that provide firsthand accounts of the lives of those who suffered through the Holocaust, those ... ) The Diary of Samuel Golfard and the Holocaust in Galicia, Wendy Lower (2011) Jewish Responses to ... ) The Holocaust in Hungary: Evolution of a Genocide, Zoltán Vági, László Csősz, and Gábor Kádár (2013 ... of Alfred Rosenberg and the Onset of the Holocaust, Jürgen Matthäus and Frank Bajohr (2015) Nazi
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292. Frequently Asked Research Questions
shall never be a bystander"? On January 27, 1998, Yehuda Bauer, professor of Holocaust studies at the ... current members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council? Who has served as the Museum ... States, at the presentation of the report of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust, September 27 ... and charged it with issuing a report on the state of Holocaust remembrance and education in the United
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293. Last Chapter
Holocaust. It covers the postwar quest to render justice to those who carried out the murder of millions of ... innocent civilians and the efforts of Holocaust survivors to build new lives in Europe, Israel, and the ... were bystanders who did little to deter the Nazis or to aid Jews or other victims of Nazi persecution ... The final floor of the Permanent Exhibition addresses the liberation of the Nazi camps and the
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294. Rwanda’s Genocide: 15 Years Later
April 7, 2009 marked the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Joined by an international ... audience, Rwandans across the country gathered to commemorate the deaths of between 500,000 and a million ... remember, but also of the future he is trying to build for the country: “This is the constant underlying ... our future.” April 7, 2009 marked the 15th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Joined by an
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295. Raul Hilberg (1926–2007)
Bystanders—The Jewish Catastrophe 1933–1945 (1992) and Sources of Holocaust Research (2001), helped establish ... field of Holocaust studies, and a key figure in the establishment and development of the United States ... Nazi records seized by the US Army. These microfilms became the basis of most Holocaust research for ... “rescue the evidence” of the Holocaust through archival microfilming. Professor Hilberg spent most of his
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296. Miles Lerman (1920–2008)
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum deeply mourns the passing of Miles Lerman, Holocaust ... survivor, partisan fighter in the forests of Poland, international leader in the cause of Holocaust ... as well. In this way, the lessons of the Holocaust will be applied once again as we seek to create a ... remembrance, and a founding father of the Museum. Mr. Lerman served on the Museum’s Council for 23 years
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297. Simon-Skjodt Center Deputy Director Addresses UK Parliament Members on Syria
thank the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Syria and the All-Party Parliamentary Group of Friends of ... serve as the Deputy Director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the United ... States Holocaust Memorial Museum. I would like to thank Caesar for entrusting us with his file in the ... of the brutality of the regime for those held under detention. The images he smuggled out help to set
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298. Museum Hosts Expert Panel on Incitement and Free Speech
protagonists of the show model the behavior of “active bystanders”—those who resist violence and encourage ... genocide. The focus of the discussion was how to address inflammatory language with policies and practices ... need to develop strategies to identify—and prevent—the most extreme cases of hate speech, as well as ... ways to address the root causes of hatred and racism without relying on legislation and criminal law
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299. 2014 Sudikoff Seminar
February 20–21, 2014 In February 2014, the Center for the Prevention of Genocide convened a diverse and ... dynamic group of three dozen international experts from the fields of government, technology, business ... built upon the findings of the 2009 Sudikoff Seminar, “Speech, Power, Violence,” which identified the ... need to more clearly define the types of hate speech associated with collective violence and the
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300. Simon-Skjodt Center Director Kikoler Addresses International Religious Freedom Summit
Holocaust Memorial Museum, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, it is a deep honor to be able ... Holocaust the persecution began with the targeting of the disabled, then focused on the Jews, the Roma ... remember: what hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander ... Director Naomi Kikoler at the International Religious Freedom Summit. On behalf of the United States