The Holocaust

A cattle car used by railway companies to transport Holocaust victims in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Railways were essential to the Holocaust – decades later, corporate responsibility continues to be taken

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Monument to the victims of the Babi Yar massacre, Kyiv. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A police force made up of Ukrainians participated in the murder of Jews in the Holocaust

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Non-Jewish Ukrainian writers tried to raise awareness of large-scale Ukrainian collaboration with the Nazis, but the Ukrainian public still does not recognize this, mainly due to the neglect of the Soviet regime and many of the Ukrainian governments.
Sending Jews from one of the ghettos in Poland to Auschwitz. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Defiance against the Holocaust does not mean only uprising and rebellion: remember the daily resistance of the Jews

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Every Holocaust survivor had countless moments in which the story could have ended. The mutual aid - starting with food smuggling, and even in successful local resistance events
A monument to the memory of Janusz Korczak, who perished in the gas chamber in the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942, together with the children of the Jewish orphanage he ran in the Warsaw ghetto. Illustration: depositphotos.com

"By policing history, the Polish government distorts the Holocaust"

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This is what the Polish historian Jan Grabowski writes. The article was published on The Conversation Canada website on February 14, 2023
Vancouver, Canada - September 8, 2021: A view of the 'The Holocaust began with the demonization and marginalization of certain groups' sign during the BC Anti-Vaccine Card rally in front of Vancouver City Hall - photo by Margarita_Young. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Has the fight against antisemitism failed?

The annual report of the "Center for the Study of European Jewry Today" on the state of anti-Semitism in the world reveals: 2021 was a record year for anti-Semitism
A boy raises his hands during the removal of Jews from the bunkers during the suppression of the uprising in Warsaw, 1943. The boy has been identified as Artur Domb Semyontek, Israel Rundel, Zvi Nussbaum or Levi Zelinorger. German Federal Archives / Public domain

How the Jews stopped the typhoid epidemic in the Warsaw Ghetto, under the worst conditions imaginable

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A tombstone in memory of the Jews of Miedel (then in Poland, now in Belarus) who were executed in September 1942. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

The state of Holocaust research and studies in Israel is deteriorating

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Barracks in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Photo: shutterstock

Women adopted different survival tactics than men in Auschwitz

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A 200-year-old inscription in Hebrew that was discovered in the excavations of the Great Synagogue in Vilnius. Photo: Dr. Yochanan Zeligman, Antiquities Authority

A 200-year-old Hebrew inscription was discovered in the excavations of the Great Synagogue in Vilnius

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The late Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel in a photo from 2012. From Wikipedia

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the late Elie Wiesel, in an interview he gave to the website Hadaan in 2008: Scientists must not cooperate with dangerous regimes

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The escape tunnel of the prisoners from Ponar forest was located

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Following a visit to the forest where my mother hid: How did the Jews live before and during the Holocaust?

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Eugen Fischer, from Wikipedia

The story of two Nazi scientists who were never prosecuted

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A demonstration of about ten thousand Kurds in the German city of Hanover, August 16, 2014. The demonstrators shout against the massacres by the ISIS organization of the minority people in Iraq. From Wikipedia

Opinion - have the lessons been learned from the holocaust?

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Demonstration near a synagogue in Oklahoma City, 2009. Photo: Samuel Perry / Shutterstock.com

Anti-Semitism in the world in 2013 penetrates from the extreme fringes on the right and left to the center

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Credit: Wikipedia, from the collections of the Imperial War Museums of Great Britain A facility for disinfecting sick prisoners after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Each of the 60 tables was staffed by two German doctors and two nurses who bathed and disinfected the patients.

Reflections - Medicine in the Holocaust - a view from 2013 / Shmuel Reiss

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A photo of a sign hanging up prohibiting purchases in Jewish stores on the eve of World War II. Taken during a visit to the Anne Frank Memorial Museum in Berlin, March 2013.

A noticeable increase in expressions of anti-Semitism in general and violence against Jews in particular

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Anne Frank Memorial Center used for tolerance education in Berlin, March 2013. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

How did we miss one of the most important lessons from the Holocaust?

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With the help of psychological experiments, it is possible to try and answer the disturbing question, how could it be that the Holocaust happened? How could it be that so many people knew about what was happening in the extermination camps and remained silent? Why only a few?
From the program of the show Stampanio. Photo: The Chamber Theater

Stampanio: A glimpse into the normal life of the Jews in Europe before the Holocaust

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The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, March 2012. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Holocaust Day: Einstein fought anti-Semitism against Eastern European Jews in Berlin

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Josef Mengele, in a document from the Nazi era. From Wikipedia

Josef Mengele: the angel of death from Auschwitz who managed to trick the Mossad

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Niels Bohr. From Wikipedia

In the end, it's a story about two friends.

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The monument erected on the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto by the artist Rapoport. A place where many memorial ceremonies are held. Photo: Avi Blizovsky, November 2009

The anti-Semitic events in the world are on the rise in the last decade

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A yellow patch that the Jews in the areas occupied by the Nazis in Europe and North Africa were forced to wear in order to be recognized

Does academic freedom protect covert holocaust deniers?

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Shaul and Rene Gessner

Plastic

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From the cover of the book Fatal Science published by Magnes

Science in Nazi Germany: between cheerful science and the birth of tragedy

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The mountain of the shoes of the murdered in Auschwitz

An exhibition of photos from the Holocaust era of the Nazi hunter Tovia Friedman will be shown at the Carmel Academic Center

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

The Night of the Long Knives: Hitler's Obsession - or - Logical Act?

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Holocaust deniers will speak to Oxford students

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New findings were revealed in a unique archaeological dig being conducted in the Sobibor extermination camp

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A researcher from the University of Haifa: Many of the Nazi doctors believed that they were doing the right thing

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The incidence of cancer in Holocaust survivors is greater than in their peers who stayed in Israel during the Holocaust

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In the SS they did not speak, in the West they did not hear - American intelligence excuses the failure to decipher the secrets of the

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And where was God in the Holocaust?

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Cosmic scene with DNA, stars, solvents and atomic circles in oral flow.

Holocaust views/incarnations

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Historian: 150 thousand Jews served in the Nazi army

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Genocide

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It is enough to blame the Gentiles

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