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The Astonishing Reunion between a Jewish Soldier and His Parents in a Nazi Ghetto
The Astonishing Reunion between a Jewish Soldier and His Parents in a Nazi Ghetto
Perhaps it was Manfred Gans’s cherished childhood memories in Borken, Germany, that drove his desperate search for his parents after the…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 23
Hannah Szenes: The Young Poet and Parachutist Who Risked Her Life to Help Fellow Jews during World…
Hannah Szenes: The Young Poet and Parachutist Who Risked Her Life to Help Fellow Jews during World…
Before leaving for a perilous mission into Nazi-occupied Hungary, Hannah Szenes handed a piece of paper to her comrade. It contained a…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Mar 5
James McDonald Warned the World about the Nazi Threat to Jews
James McDonald Warned the World about the Nazi Threat to Jews
He Later Supported Israel as a Permanent Safe Haven
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 10, 2023
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A Nanny’s Promise to Save a Young Boy during the Holocaust
A Nanny’s Promise to Save a Young Boy during the Holocaust
Before the war, Catholic nanny Gertruda Babilińska cared for Michael Stołowicki, the young son of a Jewish family living in Warsaw. She…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Out of the Shadows: Stories of Sexual Violence in the Holocaust
Out of the Shadows: Stories of Sexual Violence in the Holocaust
It’s a story you may not know. During the Holocaust, sexual violence was used to terrorize, control, and dehumanize Jewish people. In the…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Irena Sendler: Risking Her Life to Save Others
Irena Sendler: Risking Her Life to Save Others
During World War II, Polish social worker Irena Sendler leveraged her vast network to smuggle food, medicine, and supplies into the Warsaw…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Confronting Complicity: Exploring Ordinary Germans’ Roles in the Holocaust
Confronting Complicity: Exploring Ordinary Germans’ Roles in the Holocaust
The boys in this photo were more than just neighbors — they were playmates, even friends before the Nazis took power. Unbeknown to them…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Surviving Auschwitz: A Child Emerges from the Holocaust
Surviving Auschwitz: A Child Emerges from the Holocaust
It’s some of the most indelible Holocaust imagery: a group of children wearing striped uniforms pulling back their sleeves to reveal…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Preying on Young Minds and Normalizing Extremism
Preying on Young Minds and Normalizing Extremism
By the time he turned 15, Peter Becker proudly considered himself “150 percent Nazi.” Peter grew up in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Genocide Prevention
Reliving Trauma Again and Again in Pursuit of Justice
Reliving Trauma Again and Again in Pursuit of Justice
A Yezidi woman documents her own people’s testimony about genocide.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Oct 6, 2023
How the Earthquake Compounded Syrians’ Trauma, While the World Stood By
How the Earthquake Compounded Syrians’ Trauma, While the World Stood By
February’s massive earthquake brought already grievous suffering to a new level in northwest Syria, an area held by the opposition to…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Mar 14, 2023
What Uyghur Americans Want You to Know about the Olympic Games
What Uyghur Americans Want You to Know about the Olympic Games
And why what is happening in China may be genocide
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Feb 14, 2022
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