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When Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler became German chancellor on January 30, 1933, no step-by-step blueprint for the genocide of Jews as a “race” existed. After the outbreak of World War II, millions of Jews came und...
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Consideration of American responses to Nazism during the 1930s and 1940s raises questions about the responsibility to intervene in response to persecution or genocide in another country.
Persecution of Jews and other targeted groups was already government policy in Germany once the Nazis were in power in 1933. But following the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, war provided the opportunity and motivation for more ext...
The aftermath of the Holocaust raised questions about the search for justice in the wake of mass atrocity and genocide. The World War II Allied powers provided a major, highly public model for establishing internati...
Learn more about the shared foundational element of eugenics on the history of racial antisemitism in Germany and racism in the United States
Learn about some aspects that are similar and some that are different in the history of racial antisemitism in Germany and racism in the United States.
This discussion question focuses on the history of racial antisemitism in Germany and its relationship to racism in the United States.
View of residents and horse-drawn wagons on market day in Eyshishok prior to World War I. Economic life in Eyshishok revolved around the market square and the weekly market that was held there on Thursdays. The marketplace square in the center of town was home to many of the town’s shops and businesses. Clientele included the Jewish and Polish townspeople and the Polish peasants.
Yaffa Sonenson (now Eliach) feeds chickens in front of her family’s summer home in Tetlance on June 23, 1941. Behind the camera is her grandmother Alte Katz, who owned a photo studio in Eyshishok. Yaffa survived the Holocaust in hiding, but her grandmother was murdered.Years later, Yaffa set out to recapture memories of life in Eyshishok before the Holocaust. Over 15 years, she traveled around the world in search of photographs of the community. More than 1,000 of the images she collected are now…
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