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Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) commemorates the tragic loss of life in the genocides of World War II, in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur. HMD is held on 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Berkenau.
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The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants commended the Czech government on Monday night for the stiff penalties handed out to Miroslave Dano, Libor Mirga and Petr Hricko for vandalizing the Holocaust Memorial at Terezin.
The three were convicted for causing more than $100,000 worth of damage when they stole 824 [...]
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Here's a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. 1984 Nov. 8: A cold rain mixed with tears Nov. 7 as San Francisco's controversial memorial to the 6 million victims of the Holocaust was formally...
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A ditch in a Jewish cemetery, a hotel basement, a house that was anything but a home. All may seem innocuous today to passers-by in Haltern Am See, Germany, but the life of a Jewish family was forever changed in these spots 70 years ago. Holocaust survivor Alexander Lebenstein visited the locations last summer with family and friends, reliving the past in which his life was uprooted during Kristallnacht—the anti-Jewish pogrom in Nazi Germany...
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A BIG THANK YOU TOTHE U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM(In Hebrew: תוֹדָה!) Our friends at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) have added a new set of photographs commemorating the Srebrenica genocide. New photographs have been licenced from an acclaimed photographer Tarik Samarah. These photos are added in addition to a set of highly educational Srebrenica genocide videos, known as Eyewitness Testimonies, and now they bear a permanent...
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In Berlin, a ceremony has been held in memory of the homosexuals and lesbians who were persecuted in Nazi Germany. Wreaths were laid at the monument to gay holocaust victims in the Tiergarten park.
Seventy-five years ago, the Gestapo - the Third Reich’s secret police - were ordered to begin arresting all homosexuals. Speaking at the ceremony, the Berlin police chief described the holocaust as ‘the darkest chapter in German history, partly...
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Harry Potter actor Dan Radcliffe has lent his voice as narrator to a short film entitled The Legacy of Hope for the 2010 Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Our Order Partner DanRadcliffe.com reports that the film focuses on the survivors of the Holocaust during World War II and their stories. This film can be viewed online via the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust website right here.In a press release,...
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