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Launched on December 16, 1945, the Battle of the Bulge was the last major German military offensive in western Europe. By January 1945, the German military effort had failed.
A lawyer, Belle Mayer worked for the General Counsel of the US Treasury, Foreign Funds Control Bureau. She was among the attorneys who prepared the indictment against the German I.G. Farben chemical company at the Nur...
Belzec was among the killing centers the SS established for the mass murder of European Jews. Between March and December 1942, approximately 434,500 Jews were deported and killed there. Explore this gallery to learn about some of the exper...
Belzec was among the killing centers the SS established for the mass murder of European Jews. It was one of four camps linked to Operation Reinhard, the plan to murder almost two million Jews living in the so-called Generalgouvernement. Between Ma...
Belzec was among the killing centers the SS established for the mass murder of European Jews. Between March and December 1942, approximately 434,500 Jews were deported and killed there. Learn about the experiences of some of the men, women...
Benjamin Meed, Holocaust survivor and leader of the survivor community, was a founder of the U...
With the end of World War II and collapse of the Nazi regime, survivors of the Holocaust faced...
Blanka Fischer Rothschild (1922–2010) grew up as an only child in a close-knit, affluent Jewish family in Łódź, Poland. Her father died in 1937. A few months after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Blanka, her mother, Anna, and other relatives were imprisoned in the Łódź ghetto. Blanka and her mother remained in the ghetto for more than four years. During the liquidation of the ghetto in August 1944, they managed to escape transport to Auschwitz. In fall 1944, they were deported to…
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