Holocaust

During the Holocaust, Nazi Germany exterminated some 6 million Jews, as well as millions of Roma people, political dissenters, homosexuals and others, in one of the most horrific war crimes ever committed.

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During the Holocaust, Jewish photographer Henryk Ross used his camera as a tool of resistance against the Nazi regime by documenting the harsh realities inside the ghetto of Lodz, Poland.

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Auschwitz, in the village of Brzezinka, Poland, built in 1942 during the Holocaust. (Credit: Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

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During the Holocaust, Jewish photographer Henryk Ross used his camera as a tool of resistance against the Nazi regime by documenting the harsh realities inside the ghetto of Lodz, Poland.

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Jews wearing Star of David badges, Lodz Ghetto, Poland, World War II, 1940-1944. The Nazis forced Jews into over-crowded ghettos from which thousands were deported to the death camps.

Anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitism, sometimes called history’s oldest hatred, is hostility or prejudice against Jewish people. The Nazi Holocaust is history’s most extreme example of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism did not begin with Adolf Hitler—Anti-Semitic attitudes date back to ancient times.

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Kristallnacht: What Happened on the ‘Night of Broken Glass’

The “Night of Broken Glass” was a Nazi pogrom that foreshadowed the Holocaust.

The Shocking Liberation of Auschwitz: Soviets ‘Knew Nothing’ as They Approached

While some had been driven from the camp, thousands of emaciated prisoners had been left behind to die.

A mother sits with five of her children at a Displaced Persons Camp in Europe.

After WWII, Survivors of Nazi Horrors Found Community in Displaced-Persons Camps

In the wake of the Holocaust, the Allies set up the camps throughout Europe to offer temporary homelands to traumatized populations.

Holocaust Remembrance Day

History Shorts: The Moment Behind International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Of all the horrific days throughout the Holocaust, the day many choose to remember it by is the anniversary of a liberation.

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3 Heroes of the Holocaust

Carl Lutz

Carl Lutz

Lutz, a Swiss diplomat stationed in Budapest, was credited with saving 60,000 Hungarian Jews from deportation to concentration camps using protection letters.

Stanislawa Leszczyńska

During her two-year incarceration at Auschwitz, the Polish midwife delivered 3,000 babies at the camp in unthinkable conditions. She was instructed to murder the newborns, but refused.

Virginia Hall

Virginia Hall

Hall organized sabotage and rescue operations across Vichy France, paving the way for the Allied invasion at Normandy. She became so notorious to Nazi leaders that the Gestapo dubbed her “the most dangerous of all Allied spies.”

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Of all the horrific days throughout the Holocaust, the day many choose to remember it by is the anniversary of a liberation.

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Joshua Kaufman shares his outlook on life since being liberated from Dachau on April 29, 1945.

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As Allied troops move across Europe, they encounter the horror of thousands of prisoners in Nazi camps.

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