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Israel kidnaps Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust

...Holocaust. For the first time, the persecution of the Jews was widely discussed. Eichmann was sentenced to death and hanged on 1 June 1962. Israel kidnaps Adolf Eichmann, architect of the Holocaust
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Foundation of Yad Vashem

...Holocaust, for instance by organising exhibitions. Yad Vashem also honours those who saved or helped Jews during the Holocaust. They receive the title of ‘Righteous Among the Nations’, a medal, a cert...
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Ghettos in occupied Poland

...Holocaust Memorial MuseumA German police officer kicks a Jewish man into a truck, to send him to forced labor.Krakow, Poland, 1940 - 1941.Photo Collection: USHMM United States Holocaust Memorial Museu...
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Auschwitz is liberated: Otto Frank is free

...Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mark ChrzanowskiCorpses of prisoners who died during the camp evacuation.Auschwitz-Birkenau, January 1945.Photo Collection: USHMM / United States Holocaust Memor...
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Trawniki: training camp for camp guards

...Holocaust Memorial MuseumA section of Camp Trawniki. 1941-1944.Photo collection: USHMM United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumAuxiliary troops from Trawniki at the ‘Umschlagplaz’ in Warsaw, during the...
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Jewish refugees in Amsterdam

...Holocaust Memorial Museum/ Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive. Film: Outtakes March of Time After the Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass) in November 1938, many ...
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Adolf Hitler publishes ‘Mein Kampf’

...Holocaust), it does show that he had already developed a hatred of Jews at this time. On 18 July 1925, Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf (‘My Struggle’) was published. He wrote it in prison, where he was serv...
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Otto Frank starts a lawsuit in defence of the diary

...Holocaust never took place. By casting doubt on the testimonies, they hope to show that the Nazis were not as bad as they are portrayed. They often use seemingly scientific arguments that are difficul...
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Jewish children rescued from the Hollandsche Schouwburg

...Holocaust Memorial Museum Since the Hollandsche Schouwburg was too small for the large number of people who had been arrested, the children were put in a nursery which was located opposite the Schouwb...
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Radio Oranje: ‘The voice of the Netherlands at war’

...Holocaust Memorial Museum / courtesy Hans AussenWriter A. den Doolaard on Radio Oranje. He is known for his passionate delivery. 1943.Photo collection: Nationaal Archief, The HagueAmsterdam notice of ...
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Overview of Holocaust victims by country

...Holocaust victims by country
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Major raid in Paris

...Holocaust Memorial Museum In the course of a two-day raid in Paris and the surrounding area, the French police arrested more than 13,000 foreign Jews by order of the Nazis. Among them were 4000 childr...
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Murder of the disabled

...Holocaust Memorial Museum / Karl & Wolfgang SchuhmannDeparture of patients from the Liebenau psychiatric hospital to Hartheim Castle. The papers of the men are checked and they get a stamp on thei...
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