I Will Survive! Holocaust Dance Tribute
On a recent trip to Europe, a family of three generations, (a Holocaust survivor, his daughter and his grandchildren) dance to Gloria Gaynor’s pop song – ‘I Will Survive’ at concentration camps and memorials throughout Europe.
This dance is a tribute to the tenacity of the human spirit and a celebration [...]
1938 Holocaust Video
The Story of Helen and Ross Baker
Helen and Ross Baker were Americans living in Vienna when the Nazis annexed Austria in March 1938. With a diary and a Kodak movie camera, they recorded a stirring firsthand account of their experiences during this tumultuous time.
Museum staff compiled some of this material [...]
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 [...]