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'Everything was just fine until ... Hitler came to power.'

In Susan Taube's hometown of Vacha, Germany, Jewish-owned shops were boycotted, townspeople hurled insults at their Jewish neighbors, and Jewish children were barred from school activities.

'Everything was just fine until ... Hitler came to power.' In Susan Taube's hometown of Vacha, Germany, Jewish-owned shops were boycotted, townspeople hurled insults at their Jewish neighbors, and Jewish children were barred from school activities.
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Polish resistance member Jadwiga Dzido was cruelly experimented on at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She later testified at a trial of 23 German doctors and administrators, which began in 1946. Her testimony helped convict the lone female doctor on trial. 📷: NARA

Polish resistance member Jadwiga Dzido was cruelly experimented on at the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She later testified at a trial of 23 German doctors and administrators, which began #OTD in 1946. Her testimony helped convict the lone female doctor on trial. 📷: NARA
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Lawyer Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew, escaped the Nazis, but lost most of his family in the Holocaust. He coined the word genocide, meaning the intentional destruction of a group. in 1948, the UN adopted the Genocide Convention, recognizing genocide as a crime. 📷: United Nations

Lawyer Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew, escaped the Nazis, but lost most of his family in the Holocaust. He coined the word genocide, meaning the intentional destruction of a group. #OTD in 1948, the UN adopted the Genocide Convention, recognizing genocide as a crime. 📷: @UN
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During Hanukkah in 1931, Rabbi Akiva Posner’s family placed a menorah in the window—an outward sign of their faith. Through the panes, a swastika flag is seen on a Nazi Party office. The family fled Nazi Germany in 1933 with the candleholder. Their descendants still light it.

During Hanukkah in 1931, Rabbi Akiva Posner’s family placed a menorah in the window—an outward sign of their faith. Through the panes, a swastika flag is seen on a Nazi Party office. The family fled Nazi Germany in 1933 with the candleholder. Their descendants still light it.
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in 1941, the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, prompting the United States to enter World War II. When US troops finally landed in Europe in 1943, the Nazis and their collaborators had already killed millions of Jews. 📷: NARA

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Despite staying mostly within the walls of her deaf Jewish school, Ruth Stern still encountered the harsh realities of life as a Jew in Nazi Germany. “There were signs everywhere saying, ‘Verboten,’ meaning ‘not allowed.’' 📷: Courtesy of Ruth Stern

Despite staying mostly within the walls of her deaf Jewish school, Ruth Stern still encountered the harsh realities of life as a Jew in Nazi Germany. “There were signs everywhere saying, ‘Verboten,’ meaning ‘not allowed.’' 📷: Courtesy of Ruth Stern
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in 1942, the Council for Aid to Jews ('Żegota')—a secret rescue organization supported by the Polish government-in-exile—was established. Co-founder Władysław Bartoszewski and other Żegota members risked their lives to provide fake IDs to tens of thousands of Jews. 📷: JHI

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“The Nazis took all the Jewish businesses away,” remembered Holocaust survivor Irene Frank.

in 1938, the German government issued the Decree on the Utilization of Jewish Property, forcing Jews to liquidate their businesses or sell them to non-Jews.encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…

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On International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we recognize the first victims of the Nazis’ systematic mass murder—people with disabilities. In 1939, the Nazis began a “euthanasia” program targeting anyone deemed “unworthy of life.” This propaganda reads: 'Life without hope.'

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85 years ago, the first group of Jewish refugee children arrived in Great Britain as part of one of the largest international efforts to rescue children from the Nazi threat. Before the outbreak of WWII halted the program, 10,000 children were saved.

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'In Lithuania there are no more Jews.'

in 1941, SS officer Karl Jäger reported that his unit and its Lithuanian auxiliaries had shot some 130,000 Jews, mostly in German-occupied Lithuania. 📷: Wikipedia

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Norbert Wollheim helped thousands of Jewish children flee Nazi Germany, but he could not save his own son. Watch live today at 1 p.m. ET to learn Norbert’s story and hear about the Kindertransport, one of the largest international efforts to rescue children from the Nazi threat.

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'No matter how painful it is, I share the truth of what I experienced during the Holocaust. ... The world needs my voice.' Ruth Cohen survived Auschwitz as a teenager, but lost her mother and brother in the gas chambers.

This , help share stories like Ruth's.

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Solly Perel, a Jewish teen, survived by posing as a student at a Hitler Youth school. There, he saw the absurdity of Nazi racial theories when a teacher singled him out as a model 'Baltic Aryan.' If they had known the truth, the Nazis would have murdered Solly for being Jewish.

Solly Perel, a Jewish teen, survived by posing as a student at a Hitler Youth school. There, he saw the absurdity of Nazi racial theories when a teacher singled him out as a model 'Baltic Aryan.' If they had known the truth, the Nazis would have murdered Solly for being Jewish.
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In November 1944, the Nazi SS began dismantling Auschwitz-Birkenau’s gas chambers and crematoria in an attempt to erase the evidence of mass killings. Erich Kulka was one of the prisoners forced to help dismantle these structures.

In November 1944, the Nazi SS began dismantling Auschwitz-Birkenau’s gas chambers and crematoria in an attempt to erase the evidence of mass killings. Erich Kulka was one of the prisoners forced to help dismantle these structures.
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In the Theresienstadt ghetto—established in 1941—Jewish prisoners received meager rations. Using a secret code, Hildegard Gutfreund wrote to her sister, Renée, in Vienna asking her to send food. Hildegard and her son, Kurt, survived.

In the Theresienstadt ghetto—established #OTD in 1941—Jewish prisoners received meager rations. Using a secret code, Hildegard Gutfreund wrote to her sister, Renée, in Vienna asking her to send food. Hildegard and her son, Kurt, survived.
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Holocaust survivors Rae Goldfarb and her mother, Dina, celebrated their first Thanksgiving a week after arriving in the United States. “It is very memorable to me because it was a dual celebration for us. We were grateful to finally join my aunt and find a permanent home.”

Holocaust survivors Rae Goldfarb and her mother, Dina, celebrated their first Thanksgiving a week after arriving in the United States. “It is very memorable to me because it was a dual celebration for us. We were grateful to finally join my aunt and find a permanent home.”
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When 9-year-old Frank Liebermann broke his arm, his mother was desperate to find a doctor to help him. The first she turned to told her, 'I don't treat Jews.'

Frank's mother eventually found a doctor about 20 miles away who was willing to risk his reputation to treat Frank.

When 9-year-old Frank Liebermann broke his arm, his mother was desperate to find a doctor to help him. The first she turned to told her, 'I don't treat Jews.' Frank's mother eventually found a doctor about 20 miles away who was willing to risk his reputation to treat Frank.
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