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 ...

From February 6 to February 16, 1936, Germany hosted the Winter Olympics at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps. Yielding to international Olympic leaders' insistence on "fair play," German ...

This is the fictional story of one family’s experiences during the Holocaust from the perspective of a boy growing up in Nazi Germany. Daniel’s character represents the real experiences of millions of ...

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 ...

Irene Weiss was born Perl Ruchel Fogel on November 21, 1930, in Bótrágy, Czechoslovakia (now Batrad’, Ukraine). Her father, Meyer Fogel, owned a lumber yard. Her mother, Leah Fogel, managed their home ...

For years, they could not speak about the Holocaust. Teenagers Ruth Cohen, Steven Fenves, and Irene Weiss were deported in crowded cattle cars to Auschwitz-Birkenau with 430,000 other Jews from ...

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 ..

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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 ...