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1. Bystanders
witnessed by “bystanders,” much was different about the Holocaust. Leaders of ... ”? The term “bystander” is used in the context of the Holocaust in two ways. The first refers to external ... culminated in mass murder and genocide. The Holocaust was a series of ... from the rest of the population. Many people became “bystanders” to this ever-radicalizing program long
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2. How Was the Holocaust Possible?
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the Holocaust possible? No one questions the decisive role of German chancellor Adolf Hitler and other ... The Role and Motivations of Ordinary People By -
3. Kristallnacht burning of Bielefeld synagogue while bystanders watch
of the Bielefeld synagogue on fire interspersed with shots of bystanders watching it burn from open ... Brief shot of crowds at a swimming pool (see notes about the history of this footage). Title on
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4. Millennials and the Holocaust
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Holocaust is part of the mandatory school curriculum. Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia have ... social-studies standards that include the study of the Holocaust. There are hundreds of Holocaust memoirs ... left, and on the far right. With the help of the internet, the voice of Holocaust denial is amplified -
5. "Bystanders, Victims, and Perpetrators"
"A descriptive analysis of individual choices and moral responsibility in the case of an informal ... network of Protestants trying to rescue Jews in the surroundings of Antwerp and Louvain between 1942 and ... United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jan Maes ... Consists of one manuscript, 79 pages, entitled "Bystanders, Victims, and Perpetrators: A
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6. The Kiddush Cup
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palm of his hand with his thumb resting against the brim of the cup, his head held high, eyes half ... the other festive traditional activities, was carried out in proper order. Any bystander would have ... cup in the flat palm of his hand with his thumb resting against the brim of the cup, his head held -
7. SS and the Holocaust
Germany's Axis partners, and tens of thousands of civilian bystanders in Germany and the other Axis ... state apparatus for authority to direct efforts towards a “solution” of the so-called Jewish question in
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8. Introduction to the Holocaust
? The Holocaust (1933–1945) was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million ... .1 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum defines the years of the Holocaust as 1933–1945. The ... . Geography of the Holocaust How did Nazi Germany and its ... of Jews’ property, personal belongings, and valuables was a key part of the Holocaust
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9. Public Radio Special: Confronting Hatred 70 Years After the Holocaust
: Since the Holocaust, there have been many studies on bystander behavior. A number of famous experiments ... discussion of dangerous ideology must be informed by the Holocaust. The Holocaust epitomizes unchecked hatred ... during the Holocaust. But the administration of any policy on a broad scale requires the participation of ... Holocaust on the basis of no information whatsoever. How else do you describe a man like this but to
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10. Bringing the Lessons Home Program
founded on two core principles: The history and lessons of the Holocaust are relevant to today’s world ... By encouraging young people to examine the implications of the Holocaust for their own lives, the ... bystander.” —Class of 2015 Ambassador, Eastern Senior High School Graduate, Duke University Student “The ... thought-provoking, nuanced lessons about both the why and how of the Holocaust. Opportunities for Students
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11. Why I Feel that We Must Move On with the German People
Holocaust happened. How is hatred ingrained in the minds of an entire people from infancy? How can a child ... asking myself ever since I was old enough to fathom the enormity of the Holocaust. I don’t think I could ... see the indifference of bystanders. Of course, there are always exceptions—such as Sophie Scholl and ... the summer of 2013, I traveled to Berlin to find out how today’s Germans feel about the Holocaust, and
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12. One of Many Tours
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help thousands of people from all over the world, and the steel donor desk where Holocaust ... long walk from the Metro to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The hike would entail ... frozen by the time I got to the Raoul Wallenberg Place entrance of the Museum. I got up anyway -
13. Bridges
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they were simply bystanders. I must have purchased the ashtray in one of the souvenir shops on ... ended up cluttered on the floor. On one occasion, I decided it was a perfect time to throw out some of ... my mind. In the middle of this little ashtray was a painting of the Alte Nahebrücke in the town of -
14. People Have Choices
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and acts all the time. Decisions are important, naturally some more so than others. The actions of ... the decisions and actions of people become much more important in troubling times. As is well known ... Hungary was an ally of Germany in World War II. When the Hungarian leader Miklós Horthy realized that -
15. Letter to Tansi
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We, the survivors who volunteer at the United States Holocaust Museum, often receive letters from ... students who wish to engage with a Holocaust survivor as part of a school project. Tansi is a 15-year-old ... I am so proud of you for doing Bollywood dancing for ten years and being part of the Bollywood dance -
16. Democratic Republic of Congo: Rising Concern about the Banyamulenge’s Situation
They do not necessarily reflect those of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. What is the ... discusses ongoing violence and risk of future mass atrocities against the Banyamulenge ethnic group in the ... Ntanyoma is a PhD candidate at the Erasmus University Rotterdam/Institute of Social Studies. He is an
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17. Prisoners of the Camps
concentration camps. After the war, Niemoeller's condemnation of bystanders to Nazi policies will become a call ... of the Camps As the Jews were the main targets of Nazi genocide, the victims of the killing
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18. Donate to the Collections
music, and oral testimonies, to document the events of the Holocaust, from Jewish and non-Jewish victims ... collection of moving image documentation of Holocaust history to make it the largest central repository ... depicting life before the Holocaust, wartime experiences, and the reconstruction of life after the war. Be ... photographs, as well as the larger context of the individual or family’s Holocaust experiences. If you are not
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19. Oral history interviews of the Germany Documentation Project
recording the testimonies of witnesses, bystanders, collaborators, and perpetrators in Holocaust-related ... In March 1999, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch began the project of ... Oral history interviews of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Germany Documentation
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20. Oral history interview with Edith Palkowitz
and their collaborators or witnessed the events of the Holocaust ... miles with her aunt and grandmother to a sports stadium; the reaction of bystanders who viewed the march ... Katherine Saint John, on behalf of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Branch ... The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on
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21. Women’s Experiences of Genocide
the commission of a prohibited act with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical ... organized mass killings, of which men are more likely to be the victims. Non-killing acts of genocide—those ... . The failure to acknowledge the multi-faceted female experience of genocidal violence has led to a ... difficult to prevent and punish the crime of genocide. How are women targeted as victims in genocide
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22. Susan Darvas
. One day, a young German officer knocked on the door of the apartment. He was the boyfriend of one of ... . A few weeks later, members of the Arrow Cross Party, Hungarian fascists, rounded up all of the Jews ... out of the Jewish house and into a building ostensibly under the protection of the Spanish government ... in another part of the city. Conditions in the building were terrible. There were eight families
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23. References
Nazi Persecution: Bureaucracy, Business and the Organization of the Holocaust (New York: Berghahn Books ... Bystanders: Conscience and Complicity during the Holocaust (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999). [7] Cole ... Doris Bergen, War and Genocide: A Concise History of the Holocaust (New York: Rowman and Littlefield ... the Holocaust: Crimes of the Local Police in Belorussia and Ukraine, 1941–44 (New York: St. Martin
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24. Defining the Challenge
speak of the victims of genocide and mass atrocities, their numbers too staggering to count. Individual ... the challenges of bureaucracies and budgets, policies and political will. But we must never lose sight ... of the evil inherent in the subject matter and the human beings who suffer as a result of that evil ... . In the last century, tens of millions of people lost their lives in episodes of mass killings
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25. Harvey Meyerhoff
States Holocaust Memorial Museum, April 22, 1993 Mr. President, His Excellency, the President of the ... not sufficient to remember the past, we must learn from it. The story of the Holocaust is not simply ... people did not do at all—the indifference of the bystanders who watched as their neighbors and friends ... Remarks of Harvey Meyerhoff, Chairman of the Council, at the Dedication Ceremonies for the United