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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.
On April 18, 2007, in a DRVH ceremony held in the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, President George W. Bush delivered an address that linked definitions and words—including the "new word", genocide, that had come out of the Holocaust experience—to the challenge to remember: [11] This is a place devoted to memory.
7 March 1936 Germany remilitarization of the Rhineland. Using the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance as a pretext, Hitler ordered the Wehrmacht to march 20,000 German troops into the Rhineland. The United Kingdom and France did not resist German actions. 29 March 1936 The SS-Totenkopfverbände is established. [26] 6 June 1936
The International Holocaust Remembrance Day, or the International Day in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, is an international memorial day on 27 January that commemorates the victims of the Holocaust, which resulted in the genocide of one-third of the Jewish people along with countless numbers of individuals of other minority groups, by ...
The festival’s final day, called “the day the music died” by the San Francisco Examiner and “Apocalypse Woodstock” by MTV News, appeared to suffer from similar issues as its chaotic 1994 ...
A Holocaust memorial day or Holocaust remembrance day is an annual observance to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust, the genocide of six million Jews and of millions of other Holocaust victims by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. Many countries, primarily in Europe, have designated national dates of commemoration.
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The "Peanuts" comic strip celebrated its 74th anniversary this year, having made its debut on Oct. 2, 1950.For the last seven-plus decades, the series has delighted audiences through various forms ...