An Annual Commemoration The United Nations has designated January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, as a time to remember the six ...

Alfred Münzer was born in 1941 to a Jewish family during Nazi Germany’s occupation of the Netherlands. Trying to keep the family safe, his parents arranged to ...

In 1945, the world faced a near-impossible task.

In anticipation of both the Winter Olympics and the Summer Games, Hitler directed that signs stating "Jews not wanted" and similar slogans should be removed from primary traffic arteries. In some ...

Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Shots of Locations, Łódź ... Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection ... Claude Lanzmann spent twelve years locating and interviewing survivors, perpetrators, eyewitnesses .

Professional boxing was among the few integrated sports in the United States, and prize-fighter Joe Louis was a hero to American Blacks. On June 19, 1936, after rain postponed the fight a day, the ...

10. Colored pencil drawing of the final red train cars passing through a concentration camp gate murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp. It depicts a line of red cattlecars entering the gate of a ..

Jewish resistance during the Holocaust is still mostly understood as rare armed-group opposition in the Nazi-occupied east. New research based on a broader definition of resistance, including ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history. It serves as this country’s memorial to the ...