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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Raoul Wallenberg and Rescue of Jews in Budapest
The story of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who worked to save Hungarian Jews from deportation to Nazi extermination camps late in World War II.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Displaced Persons
Article about the establishment of centers for displaced persons, especially Jews who survived the Holocaust, and about the subsequent emigration of most of those people in the decade following the end of World War II.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Timeline
A chronology of the conspiracy theory deliberately created in a book, probably by Russian secret police in the late 19th century, and how that text has been used in the last 100+ years by various groups to justify antisemitic actions.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: White Rose
A brief history of "The White Rose," a student resistance group in Germany during World War II.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Hadamar Trial
Article about the first trial in the US zone in Germany for massed atrocities. In the Hadamar Trial, those responsible for the euthanization center at Hadamar were tried for the killing of foreign prisoners, because laws did not yet...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Propaganda
Article about the Nazis' systematic use of propaganda as a way of controlling the ideas of the German people prior to, and throughout World War II. Propaganda was primarily created against Jews, Communists, and any groups which were not...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Jasenovac
Article about the concentration camps established by the Nazis in the area around Jasenovac in Croatia, and their use in eliminating political and religious opponents, as well as Jews shipped in from other places in Eastern Europe.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Ohrdruf
Article about the concentration camp at Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald. Ohrdruf was the first camp to be liberated by the Allied forces, in April 1945.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz
On this comprehensive website is the history of Auschwitz. You can click on maps, photographs, personal histories, and film footage.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Adolf Eichmann
This article details the life of war criminal Adolf Eichmann from his youth to his capture and execution.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Testimonios De Los Sobrevivientes
Available in Spanish only: from the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Historias personales" or "personal stories" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Resistencia Espiritual en Los Ghettos
Available in Spanish only: From the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Resistencia espiritual en los ghettos" or "Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Enciclopedia Del Holocausto: Mauthausen
Spanish content: From the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Mauthausen" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Introduction to the Holocaust
Online museum encyclopedia introduction of the Holocaust. Includes photographs, references for further reading, and links to related materials.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Story of Lola Rein and Her Dress
From The United States Holocaust Museum, the heart-wrenching tale of Lola Rein, a Polish girl who hid in a hole from the Nazis for seven months. Examine the dress she wore, her only remembrance from her mother, and access the Lola and...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Rescue
In spite of the great risk, many non-Jewish people across Europe undertook rescue operations, both great and small, to hide or remove people persecuted by the Nazis, especially Jews. This article discusses some of the most notable efforts.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Liberation of Nazi Camps
Article outlining the roles of the various Allied armies, including the Russian, American, and British forces, in liberating the Nazi concentration camps in the late months of World War II.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Women During the Holocaust
The roles of Jewish women and women of other groups targeted by the Nazis is described, but the article also tells of the roles many women played in the various resistance movements during World War II.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Children During the Holocaust
Read about the plight of children, especially Jewish and Roma children, during the Holocaust
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Jewish Population of Europe, 1933
Data by country of the Jewish population in Europe prior to World War II.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Pogroms
An explanation of the term "pogrom" and examples of pogroms in both 19th and early 20th century Russia, and in Germany and Eastern Europe during World War II.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: The Aftermath of the Holocaust
An article about plight of people, especially Jewish people, who were displaced by World War II and had no homes to return to, and how the world-wide community did, and did not, aid them in the years immediately following the war.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Refugees
An explanation of the plight of refugees, especially Jewish refugees trying to emigrate from Germany just prior to and during World War II.
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American Jewish Historical Society: Timeline of American Soviet Jewry Movement
In the late 1800's and most of the 1900's countries made many efforts to help Jews in the Soviet Union gain freedom to practice their faith. Countries such as the United States and Israel offered exile to many Jews to escape the...