How You Can Help Holocaust Survivors
HOW THESE FUNDS WILL BE USED TO HELP HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS
There are over 5,000 frail and lonely Holocaust survivors living throughout New York City.
iVolunteer is a dynamic visitation program that sends volunteers to the homes of Holocaust survivors, providing them with companionship and much-needed assistance. Our volunteers are [...]
Medical Experiments of the Holocaust and Nazi Medicine
People must remember the Holocaust as a insult to humanity. The lives lost were not only great in number, but offered so much to mankind. How the world would have been different if the millions of souls destroyed could have lived.
Doctors have always been thought of as the [...]
Holocaust Doctors Trial: The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings
On December 9, 1946, an American military tribunal opened criminal proceedings against 23 leading German physicians and administrators for their willing participation in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Brigadier General Telford Taylor was Chief of Counsel, during the Doctors Trial. In Taylor’s own words, from [...]
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the main victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany.
The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, in 1945-46, at the Palace [...]
Jewish Ghettos Overview
The term “ghetto” originated from the name of the Jewish quarter in Venice, established in 1516, in which the Venetian authorities compelled the city’s Jews to live. Various authorities, ranging from local municipal authorities to the Austrian Emperor Charles V, ordered the creation of other ghettos for Jews in Frankfurt, Rome, Prague, and [...]
WHY WE REMEMBER THE HOLOCAUST
April 11 – 18, 2010
From April 11 through April 18, the Museum is leading the nation’s annual Days of Remembrance commemorating the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust as well as the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution.
This year marks the 65th anniversary of the end [...]