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In the Auschwitz concentration camp, Romani children were killed. Meanwhile, five to seven thousand children died as victims of a euthanasia program. Others were murdered in reprisals, including most of the children of Lidice; many children in villages in the occupied parts of the Soviet Union were killed with their parents. [32]
A timeline of the Holocaust is detailed in the events which are listed below. Also referred to as the Shoah (in Hebrew), the Holocaust was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Nazi Germany and its World War II collaborators. About 1.5 million of the victims were children.
Wife and parents were on same transport and were killed. Bereck Kofman: October 10, 1900: 1943: 42 Jewish Hasidic orthodox rabbi, deported to Auschwitz from Drancy internment camp on Convoy No. 12 on July 29, 1942. According to survivor, he was at the camp for one year before his murder by a Kapo on a Shabbat because he refused to work. He was ...
Every Person Has a Name or Everyone Has a Name (he:לכל איש יש שם) is Yad Vashem's commemoration project to document the names of those killed in the Holocaust. The project's goal is to commemorate the victims individually, ensuring that at the very least the names of the millions of Jews murdered in the Holocaust are recorded.
Holocaust survivor Harry Davids has dedicated his life to uncovering the story of the parents he never knew. Born in Nazi-occupied Holland in 1942, Davids was just an infant when his parents were ...
This list includes people from public life who, owing to their origins, their political or religious convictions, or their sexual orientation, were murdered by the Nazi regime. It includes those murdered in the Holocaust , as well as individuals otherwise killed by the Nazis before and during World War II.
A snakeskin wallet that survived the Holocaust. It belonged to Addy Kurc, the grandfather of Georgia Hunter, author of 'We Were the Lucky Ones' and co-executive producer of the Hulu series by the ...
Haim Raanan says he survived two holocausts. The first was as a boy in a Jewish ghetto in Hungary during World War Two. The second was in a kibbutz in southern Israel, hiding in a safe room beside ...