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 ...

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Halina Litman Yasharoff Peabody was born Halina Litman on December 12, 1932 to a liberal Jewish family in Kraków, Poland. Her father, Izaak Litman, was a dentist. Her mother, Olga Schreiber, had been ...

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 ...

Pete grew up in Essen, a major industrial city on Germany’s Ruhr River. His father worked as a cattle hide dealer for an international trading company in nearby Mühlheim. His mother was a designer for ...

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 ...

Young twins sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau were sometimes spared immediate death for a gruesome fate: to become the subjects of medical experiments by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. One fellow Jew saw their ...

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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 ..