Displaying: 1 10 of 10 matches for “history of the museum”
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1. Oral History: Stefan Kucharek
. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation ... Małkinia. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, Stefan began working for the local railroad ... doing track maintenance. He soon got a job driving trains full of Jewish victims into the trainyard of
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2. Oral History: Steven Fenves
Memorial Museum, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation ... ordered Jews in the town of Subotica deported. As Steven Fenves and his family were forced out of their ... apartment, local townspeople heckled and attacked them and looted their belongings. Despite the threat of ... violence from the mob, the family’s cook quickly gathered some of their treasured belongings. She
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3. Oral History: Juozas Aleksynas
—before finally blaming God for their murders. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby ... Civilians Oral History: Juozas Aleksynas First you shoot the father . . . the child, he does not feel ... anything. Juozas Aleksynas had served in the Lithuanian military before the German invasion of 1941
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4. Oral History: Halina Błaszczyk
after the war. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation ... conquered vast areas of eastern Europe during the war. German forces looked to local police in the region
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5. Oral History: Regina Prudnikova
belongings. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation ... a nanny. Following the invasion of 1941, Lithuanian soldiers helped the Germans shoot Jews
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6. Oral History: Norbertas Jokūbauskas
that there was nothing he could do to help her. US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the ... Oral History: Norbertas Jokūbauskas 3Nb4inf2y8w Indifference from Friends, Kindness from Strangers
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7. Nazism in the News
histories, film footage, and photographs of the Nazi book burnings in the Museum's collections. History ... American households received one. US press coverage included reports on the Nazis’ persecution of Jews
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8. The St. Louis
St. Louis passengers, 254 were murdered in the Holocaust. Voyage of the St. Louis View oral histories ... about, film footage and photographs of, and artifacts from the “St. Louis” in the Museum's collections ... Voyage of the "St. Louis" View oral histories about, film footage and photographs of, and artifacts from ... Germany, for Havana, Cuba, carrying 937 passengers, most of them German Jews. When the ship arrived in
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9. Boycott the Olympics?
histories, film footage, and photographs from the Nazi Olympics in the Museum’s collections. The Nazi ... debated whether to boycott the Games as a protest against Nazism, with 43 percent of Americans supporting ... a boycott. Jeremiah Mahoney, the president of the Amateur Athletic Union, contended that Germany ... Jewish-led conspiracy of “radicals and Communists.” In December 1935, the Amateur Athletic Union narrowly
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10. Attacks on Jews Shock Americans
film footage and photographs of Kristallnacht in the Museum’s collections. ... Germany and Austria on the night of November 9–10, 1938, an event known as Kristallnacht. Units of the ... unleashed a series of attacks against the Jewish population in Germany and its recently incorporated ... territories. Learn more in the Holocaust Encyclopedia. Explore our Collections View oral histories about and