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Descriptions of the death marches from survivors who experienced them and members of the...
SS guards brutally mistreated the prisoners during the death marches. They shot prisoners who...
Benjamin Meed, Holocaust survivor and leader of the survivor community, was a founder of the U...
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.
On June 6, 1944, Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy, France. Commonly known as D-Day, the invasion was one of the most important Allied military operations during World War II.
Explore images related to the June 6, 1944, Allied invasion of Normandy—commonly known as “D-Day."
The Nazis began experimenting with poison gas for the purpose of mass murder in late 1939 with...
The Nazis established five killing centers in occupied Poland. Listen to survivors descri...
Carl Clauberg was a German research gynecologist. During the Holocaust, he conducted medical experiments on the female prisoners at Auschwitz. His mass sterilization experiments caused severe pain and sometimes death. Clauberg also experimented on w...
World War II veterans and their families continue to uncover extremely graphic
These individual and family portraits of members of the Jewish community of Bitola, Macedonia,...
Martin Niemöller was a prominent Protestant pastor in Germany who emerged as an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler. His postwar words, “First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out…” continue to be used in popular culture and public...
The 1936 Olympics in Berlin were the first to employ the torch relay, an Olympic ritual. The Nazi regime used the Olympics to present the false image of a peaceful Germany.
The Chelmo killing center in German-occupied Poland was the first stationary facility where poison gas was used for the mass murder of Jews. The SS and police began killing operations at Chelmno on December 8, 1941. At least 172,000 people were kill...
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