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Polokwane (UK: / ˌ p ɒ l ə ˈ k w ɑː n i /, [2] meaning "Sanctuary" in Northern Sotho [3] [4] [5]), also known as Pietersburg, is the capital city of the Limpopo Province in South Africa. It is the country's largest urban centre north of Gauteng .
It belongs to a category of the so-called 'roots tourism' usually across parts of Central Europe, [2] or, more generally, the Western-style dark tourism to sites of death and disaster. [ 3 ] The term Holocaust , first used in the late 1950s, was derived from the Greek word holokauston meaning a completely burnt offering to God.
It was the first museum of its kind in the world, [4] devoted entirely to the memory of atrocities committed in the network of concentration, slave-labor, and extermination camps and subcamps of KL Lublin during World War II. The museum performs several tasks including scholarly research into the Holocaust in Poland. It houses a permanent ...
American Friends of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a U.S. based non-profit organization supporting the foundation of the museum. [18] On 17 June 2009, the museum launched the Virtual Shtetl portal, which collects and provides access to essential information about Jewish life in Poland before and after the Holocaust in Poland. The ...
In 1979, Pope John Paul II held a mass in Birkenau and called the camp a "Golgotha of our times". In 1962, a prevention zone around the museum in Birkenau (and in 1977, one around the museum in Auschwitz) was established to maintain the historical condition of the camp. These zones were confirmed by the Polish parliament in 1999.
The Netherlands opened the National Holocaust Museum on Sunday with a ceremony presided over by the Dutch king as well as Israeli President Isaac Herzog, whose presence prompted protest because of ...
Kitty Hart-Moxon, OBE (born 1 December 1926) is a Polish-British Holocaust survivor.She was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 1943 at age 16, (correction: there is a YouTube video where she explains she was 14 but was told to lie and say 16) where she survived for two years, and was also imprisoned at other camps.
The centre was designed by architect, Lewis Levin, who informed his plans by having discussions with survivors of the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide. [10] Railway lines surround the building, drawing images of the Holocaust victims that were deported by train to concentration camps.