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Overview V: Resisters | Holocaust

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Overview V: Resisters | Holocaust
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"You had to keep it in your mind: 'I'm going to live. I'm going to survive.' If you lost the will, that was it. You had to have a strong will to survive." —Pincus Kolender, Charleston, Advice on How...
Map - Holocaust Deaths

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Map - Holocaust Deaths
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The map shows the numbers of Jews killed by the Nazis in each country.
Overview IV: The Holocaust

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Overview IV: The Holocaust
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"One day we heard someting that was very disturbing to all of us. We heard for the first time about Auschwitz in Poland. That's where the killing was done. That we would be sent there, and that we...
Overview III: Prewar Nazi Germany | Holocaust

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Overview III: Prewar Nazi Germany | Holocaust
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"I felt like this can't be happening. Why would it be happening? People acted worse than animals, and it was people I knew. What happens to people to bring something like this on?"—Trude Heller...
Overview II: Hitler's Rise | Holocaust

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Overview II: Hitler's Rise | Holocaust
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In general the art of all great popular leaders at all times consists in not scattering the attention of a people but rather in concentrating it always on one single opponent. —from Mein Kampf by...
Overview I: A Short History of Anti-Semitism | Holocaust

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Overview I: A Short History of Anti-Semitism | Holocaust
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"I think the Holocaust happened because someone said, 'You're different, you don't belong.' " —High School Student "When our children were young, they always used to ask how come people have...
Holocaust Timeline

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Holocaust Timeline
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Learn the series of events that led to the Holocaust and related events that occurred during this period.. 1933 January 30: Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany. March 5: Hitler receives strong vote...
Holocaust Glossary | Holocaust Forum

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Holocaust Glossary | Holocaust Forum
Learn key terms from the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism. Acts or feelings against Jews; takes the form of prejudice, dislike, fear, discrimination, and persecution. Aryan. A term used by the Nazis to mean a...