The monument commemorates victims of the massacre carried out on July 10, 1941, when Polish residents of Jedwabne, a small town located in then German-occupied Poland, participated in the murder of ...

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When eight-year-old Emanuel “Manny” Mandel and his mother escaped German-occupied Budapest in summer 1944, their tense journey did not go as expected. Nazi and ...

A controversial move at the Games was the benching of two American Jewish runners, Marty Glickman and Sam Stoller. Both had trained for the 4x100-meter relay, but on the day before the event, they ...

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The collection consists of three photograph albums and a Nazi swastika pennant. ... Nazi swastika pennant that was inserted inside one of the photo albums George Bernard Niewenhous ...

US Holocaust Memorial Museum educators and historians created these lesson plans for use in secondary classrooms. Most are multidisciplinary and adaptable for different grade levels and class lengths.

After plans collapsed to hold the 1940 Winter Games at St. Moritz, Switzerland, Hitler gained an unexpected opportunity to return the Olympics to Germany. In June 1939, Garmisch-Partenkirchen was ...

Albert Garih and his twin brother were born June 24, 1938, in Paris, France, to Benjamin and Claire (née Alfandari) Garih. Albert’s twin died in infancy. Natives of Constantinople (now Istanbul, ...