<< Previous | Displaying results 51-75 of 153 for "%E9%A9%AC%E7%BB%8D%E5%B0%94%E7%BE%A4%E5%B2%9B%E8%B5%8C%E5%9C%BA%E7%BD%91%E5%9D%80%2C%E7%BD%91%E4%B8%8A%E5%8D%9A%E5%BD%A9%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8%E7%BD%91%E5%9D%80%E3%80%90%E5%A4%8D%E5%88%B6%E6%89%93%E5%BC%80%EF%BC%9Awww.788yule.com%E3%80%91%E9%A9%AC%E7%BB%8D%E5%B0%94%E7%BE%A4%E5%B2%9B%E7%BD%91%E4%B8%8A%E8%B5%8C%E5%9C%BA%E5%9C%B0%E5%9D%80%2C%E7%BD%91%E4%B8%8A%E5%8D%9A%E5%BD%A9%E7%BD%91%E7%AB%99%2C%E7%BD%91%E4%B8%8A%E5%8D%9A%E5%BD%A9%E7%BD%91%E5%9D%80%2C%E9%A9%AC%E7%BB%8D%E5%B0%94%E7%BE%A4%E5%B2%9B%E5%8D%9A%E5%BD%A9%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8%2C%E7%BD%91%E4%B8%8A%E5%8D%9A%E5%BD%A9%E7%BD%91%E7%AB%99%2C%E9%A9%AC%E7%BB%8D%E5%B0%94%E7%BE%A4%E5%B2%9B%E7%BD%91%E4%B8%8A%E8%B5%8C%E5%9C%BA%2C%E7%BD%91%E4%B8%8A%E5%8D%9A%E5%BD%A9%E5%B9%B3%E5%8F%B0%2C%E5%9C%A8%E7%BA%BF%E8%B5%8C%E5%8D%9A%E7%BD%91%E7%AB%99%2C%E7%9C%9F%E4%BA%BA%E5%8D%9A%E5%BD%A9%E6%B8%B8%E6%88%8F%E5%A4%A7%E5%8E%85%EF%BC%9Awww.788yule.com%E7%BD%91%E5%9D%80KM00yBB0sBMBVyBy" | Next >>
On December 17, 1944, one day after the beginning of the Battle of the Bulge, a Waffen SS unit captured and murdered 84 US soldiers. This atrocity is known as the “Malmedy Massacre.”
The 101st Airborne participated in major WWII campaigns and is recognized for liberating the Kaufering subcamp of Dachau in 1945.
The Oranienburg concentration camp was established as one of the first concentration camps in Nazi Germany on March 21, 1933. Learn more
A letter written by the Berlin transit authority (Berliner Verkehrs Aktiengesellschaft) to Viktor Stern, informing him of his dismissal from his post with their agency as of September 20, 1933. This action was taken to comply with provisions of the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. On April 7, the German government issued the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums), which excluded Jews and political opponents…
The Nazi regime established the Buchenwald camp in 1937. Learn about the camp’s prisoners, conditions there, forced labor, subcamps, medical experiments, and liberation.
Jeno was the youngest of five children born to Jewish parents living in a suburb of Budapest. His father was a wholesale merchant who sold beer to restaurants and stores. After receiving a university diploma, Jeno became a pharmacist. He and his wife, Aranka, and their two children, Eva and Andras, shared a large old house in Ujpest with Jeno's father and other members of the extended family. 1933-39: Jeno's friends and family have helped him raise the large amount of money he needs to lease his own…
Dora, her parents, brother, aunt, uncle, and two cousins lived together in her grandfather's home in Essen, Germany. The Ungers were an observant Jewish family, and when Dora was 8, she began to regularly attend meetings of Brit HaNoar, a religious youth organization. 1933-39: In October 1938 a teacher, with tears in her eyes, came to Dora at the municipal pool, saying "Jews cannot swim here anymore." Just weeks later, on November 9, Jews were arrested and their property destroyed. A neighbor tried to…
Jeno moved to Szentes from a tiny farming community near the city of Szolnok, where he and his two brothers had been born to Jewish parents. Jeno owned a store that carried groceries and hardware items. He lived in the southeast Hungarian town of Szentes. Jeno and his wife, Juliana, had two married daughters, Barbara and Margit. Their son, Desider, was a dentist in Szentes. 1933-39: Jeno and his wife work hard in their store. The Depression of the 1930s was devastating, but things are starting to get a…
Learn about conditions and the treatment of prisoners in Ravensbrück, the largest concentration camp for women in the German Reich.
To perpetrate the Holocaust, Nazi Germany relied on the help of allies and collaborators from across Europe, including governments, institutions, and individuals.
Parents, children, and rescuers faced daunting challenges once the decision was made for a child to go into hiding during the Holocaust.
Klaus Barbie, chief of the Gestapo in Lyon, France, was nicknamed the "Butcher of Lyon" for his brutal actions towards Jews and members of the French Resistance.
In 1942, Hana was confined with other Jews to the Theresienstadt ghetto, where she worked as a nurse. There, amid epidemics and poverty, residents held operas, debates, and poetry readings. In 1944, she was deported to Auschwitz. After a month there, she was sent to Sackisch, a Gross-Rosen subcamp, where she made airplane parts at forced labor. She was liberated in May 1945.
The Uckermark camp was one of the so-called youth protection camps that the Nazi regime established for young people who were alleged to have strayed from Nazi norms and ideals.
At the Berga-Elster subcamp of Buchenwald, prisoners were forced to do dangerous and brutal work in tunnels to support fuel production for the German war effort.
In 1939, the Nazis established the Mannschafts-Stammlager (Stalag) IX B camp in Germany. Learn more about the camp’s history, prisoners, and liberation.
Belzec was the first of three killing centers in Operation Reinhard, the SS plan to murder almost two million Jews living in the German-administered territory of occupied Poland.
Learn about conditions and forced labor in Dora-Mittelbau, the center of an extensive network of forced-labor camps for the production of V-2 missiles and other weapons.
From April to July 1994, extremist leaders of Rwanda’s Hutu majority directed a genocide against the country’s Tutsi minority. Learn more
Despite terrible living conditions and the constant threat of deportation, there was a highly developed cultural life in the Theresienstadt camp-ghetto. Learn more.
The Medical Case, or Doctors Trial, was Case #1 of 12 Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings against leading German industrialists, military figures, SS perpetrators, and others.
Adolf Hitler was determined to overturn the military and territorial provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. Learn more about Nazi German territorial aggression before WWII.
Learn about the German annexation of Austria, the establishment of Nazi camps, Kristallnacht, and deportations from Austria during the Holocaust.
The Mauthausen concentration camp was established following the Nazi incorporation of Austria in 1938. Learn about the harsh conditions in the camp.
We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies and the Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. View the list of all donors.