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The Woodstock Music and Art Fair, commonly referred to as Woodstock, was a music festival held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, [6] [7] 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock.
The images were taken within 15–30 minutes of each other by an inmate inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only as Alex, a Jewish prisoner from Greece, the photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando , inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers.
“No Child’s Play” – Children in the Holocaust: Creativity and Play Archived 5 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine an online exhibition by Yad Vashem; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Article Children during the Holocaust; and online exhibitions Life in the Shadows; and Give Me Your Children
“Woodstock ’94 feels much more like an attempt to create some kind of dialogue with Woodstock ’69,” Riley says. “There’s some of the same performers there, there’s some of the same ...
The Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews during World War II, in the systematic genocide known as the Holocaust, which wiped out two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.. The regime and its allies ...
Unofficial photographs of the Holocaust were taken by, among others, Hubert Pfoch , [5] Joe Heydecker , [13] Willy Georg [14] and Walter Genewein . [15] The prisoners of Mauthausen reenact their welcome to the US liberating troops in May 1945. Aerial view of Auschwitz taken by the British RAF in August 1944.
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The Holocaust (/ ˈ h ɒ l ə k ɔː s t / ⓘ), [1] known in Hebrew as the Shoah (שואה), was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population.