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 [...]
Holocaust Eyewitness Diaries
The United States Holocaust memorial Museum (USHMM) isproud to feature a riveting collection of diaries kept by Holocaust victims, liberators, and other eyewitnesses. In their own words and images, they express the suffering, the humanity, and the incredible resilience that drove them to write.
These journals personalize the Holocaust with unique stories of life [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
2010 HOLOCAUST DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE, APRIL 11–18
Source for information USHMM
“When I was liberated in 1945 by the American Army, somehow many of us were convinced that at least one lesson will have been learned—that never again will there be war, that hatred is not an option, that racism is stupid…. I was so hopeful.”
— Holocaust [...]