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A middle school project teaching tolerance in a small Tennessee city turned into a world-renowned memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. Poster from 2004 documentary film. The Paper Clips Project, by middle school students from the small southeastern Tennessee town of Whitwell, created a monument for the Holocaust victims of Nazi Germany. It ...
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.
In all, the Germans murdered 6 million Jews from all over Europe, annihilating two-thirds of Europe's Jews and one-third of all Jews worldwide. In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as ...
Thomas "Toivi" Blatt (born Tomasz Blatt; April 15, 1927 – October 31, 2015) was a Holocaust survivor, [2] writer of mémoires, and public speaker, who at the age of 16 escaped from the Sobibór extermination camp during the uprising staged by the Jewish prisoners in October 1943.
Nicholas Winton remained guarded about his work during the Holocaust, and it was only after his wife discovered a notebook of his work in 1988 did the world learn of his brave wartime efforts.
Two weeks later, Jews from Nyíregyháza began being sent to Auschwitz in cattle cars. Erika, her mother and her mother’s sister-in-law, Klara, were the only members of Jolán Petrover Hornstein ...
Plumber. Sent on the death march; escaped when a Soviet tank blew a hole in the building he was in. His mother, father and sister Hana were gassed at the camp. Boris Braun [50] [51] [52] August 20, 1920: January 11, 2019: 104 Jewish 1943 – January 17, 1945 University professor. His mother and father were killed during the Holocaust. Sent on ...
In 1942, I.G. Farben began building its own concentration camp, Buna-Monowitz, to accommodate additional workers. This camp relied on both Allied prisoners of war and laborers from Auschwitz.