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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 [...] Holocaust Bystanders Bystanders may have remained unaware, or perhaps were aware of victimization going on around them, but, being fearful of the consequences, chose not to take risk to help Nazi victims. Cynthia Ozick writes, Indifference is not so much a gesture of looking away–of choosing to be passive–as it is an active disinclination to feel. Indifference [...] Many original pictures taken from the web (most of from Yad Vashem)about Crystal Night,Dachau,Bergen Belsen,Auschwitz,Warsaw Ghetto,Poland,Slovakia,Hungary,Paris(exh ibition of French children deported 11400),Lodz,Kovno,Hitler, Himmler and Goebbels. Share and Enjoy: Miep Gies, the last survivor among Anne Frank’s protectors and the woman who preserved the diary that endures as a testament to the human spirit in the face of unfathomable evil, died Monday night, the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam said. She was 100. The British Broadcasting Corporation said Mrs. Gies suffered a fall late last [...] Trailer from the Holocaust survivors documentary “Broken Silence”. From Steven Spielberg and Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation comes Broken Silence, a series of five films about human courage, heroism, and triumph over intense adversities during World War II. Directed by five great directors: Luis Puenzo, Pavel Chukhraj, János Szász, Vojtech Jasny e Andrzej Wajda; [...] January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated this day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD), an annual day of commemoration to honor the victims of the Nazi era. Every member nation of the U.N. has an obligation to honor [...] |
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