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The 2011 Days of Remembrance begin this Sunday, May 1. Why do we remember? The President’s Commission on the Holocaust states: “Remembering can instill caution, fortify restraint, and protect against future evil or indifference.” Over the coming days, our US Holocaust Museum will provide many opportunities for you to participate in the Days of Remembrance, [...] 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; [...] Memories of the Holocaust: Ben Helfgott ‘When I heard what happened to my father, I was alone. I cried for 24 hours’ One morning, four days before Christmas in 1942, Nazi soldiers went to the synagogue in the Polish town of Piotrków, where 560 Jews were crammed, and demanded that 50 strong men accompany them to the [...] Memories of the Holocaust: Sabina Miller Sabina Miller never did find out what happened to the young woman she only knew as Ruszka. They both spent the winter of 1942-43 sheltering in a hole in the forests of northern [...] |
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