Impact of the Holocaust

1933-1945. The Holocaust was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its World War II collaborators killed approximately six million European Jews. The victims included 1.5 million children and resulted in killing of two-thirds of the nine million Jews in Continental Europe.

Dientje Kalisky, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Dientje Kalisky, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Dientje Kalisky was born in Holland in 1938. Her grandfather and aunt were sent to a concentration camp and never returned. "When I was four we went into hiding. My parents didn't explain what was...

Peter Becker, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Peter Becker, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Peter Becker was born in Munich in 1929. At the special Nazi school he attended, students were taught to be political or military leaders and that Hitler was the savior who would lift Germany up. In...

Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Peter Becker, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Peter Becker, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Max Krautler | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Max Krautler | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Born in 1917 in Poland, Max Krautler lived there until the outbreak of the war. He grew up amidst anti-Semitism and rumors of Hitler in the newspaper prior to the war. His family was moved into a...

Leo Diamantstein, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Leo Diamantstein, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Living in constant fear, the Diamantstein family fled from place to place—to a large Jewish community in Frankfurt; to the apartment of friends in Milan, Italy; to Como, Italy, escaping barefoot in...

Leo Diamantstein, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Leo Diamantstein, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Paula Popowski | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Paula Popowski | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Paula Popowski was born in Poland in 1923 in a predominantly Jewish city. "I came from a very orthodox family. I didn't socialize with Gentiles. Jews and Gentiles didn't mix in public school." In the...

Lon Redman | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Lon Redman | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

In April 1945, just before the war's end, Lon Redman encountered his first concentration camp—Flossenburg. There was no organized resistance against the American soldiers. They easily evacuated the...

Martha Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Martha Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Martha Bauer and her family lived in Belgium. When Hitler took over, children were taught to hate all Jews. She was careful with childhood friendships and would not even walk with non-Jewish friends...

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