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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Raoul Wallenberg and Rescue of Jews in Budapest
The story of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who worked to save Hungarian Jews from deportation to Nazi extermination camps late in World War II.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Camps
Extensive site created by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to explain the people involved with the Nazi concentration/death camps. Learn about who was targeted, and how those who led the camps were ultimately punished. Site provides...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Persecution of Soviet Prisoners of War
This article details the Nazi treatment of Soviet prisoners of war in World War II. Though it is not frequently discussed, there were almost as many Soviet prisoners killed by the Nazis as there were Jews.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Propaganda
Article about the Nazis' systematic use of propaganda as a way of controlling the ideas of the German people prior to, and throughout World War II. Propaganda was primarily created against Jews, Communists, and any groups which were not...
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Jewish Virtual Library: Jews Disbelieving Reports of Extermination
Essay describing how many Jewish people in Germany did not initially believe reports of Jewish extermination due to Nazi control of the press.
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The History Place: The Triumph of Hitler: Nazis Boycott Jewish Shops
Describes the political and cultural makeup of the Jewish population of Germany at the beginning of Hitler's regime and the boycott of Jewish stores in April 1933. This was followed by laws and regulations discriminating against Jews.
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Jewish Virtual Library: The Situation of the Jews in Warsaw After the Occupation
Essay describing life for the Jewish people living in German occupied Warsaw, Poland.
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Jewish Virtual Library: Nazi Concentration Camps
This page has links to detailed pages on all of the concentration, labor, and extermination camps used by Hitler and the Nazis in WWII. These camps were used to round up and exterminate the millions of Jews and other minorities in Europe...
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Jewish Virtual Library: Reinhard Heydrich
A detailed biography of "the Hangman" of World War II Nazi Germany.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Mosaic of Victims
An analysis of the scope of Nazi persecution during World War II, including the Jews, Poles, Roma, and any groups people who did not support the Nazi cause.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Westerbork
Article about the camp at Westerbork, the Netherlands, originally created by the Dutch to intern Jewish refugees, but later used as a transit camp by the Nazis, a holding place for Jews being sent to other concentration camps.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Drancy
A description of the Nazi development and use of Drancy, a former police barracks in Paris, as a transportation camp for deporting Jews to extermination camps.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Jasenovac
Article about the concentration camps established by the Nazis in the area around Jasenovac in Croatia, and their use in eliminating political and religious opponents, as well as Jews shipped in from other places in Eastern Europe.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Killing Centers: An Overview
A disturbing accounting of the Nazis' Final Solution, the extermination camps where millions of Jews and others were gassed during the Holocaust. Included are hyperlinks to photographs, personal stories, and film footage.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Adolf Eichmann: Timeline
Follow a chronology of Adolf Eichmann's life and his participation in the "Final Solution" of the Nazis.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Voyage of the St. Louis
A very informative article about the voyage of the SS St. Louis. Find out about the refugees on the ship, what happened to them, and how their treatment reflected world concern about those fleeing from Nazi persecution.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Rescue
In spite of the great risk, many non-Jewish people across Europe undertook rescue operations, both great and small, to hide or remove people persecuted by the Nazis, especially Jews. This article discusses some of the most notable efforts.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Forced Labor
A description of the role forced labor played in the Nazi treatment of Jews and Russian POWs during World War II.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Kovno
This article chronicles both the plight and the resistance of the Jews in the Lithuanian city of Kovno during World War II.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Discovered
During the war, the Gestapo tried many means to locate Jews in hiding, even recruiting other Jews as informers. Sometimes hidden Jews were discovered accidentally during a raid.
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Jewish Virtual Library: Death Marches
This Jewish Virtual Library site describes the death marches that Nazi-held prisoners like the Jews, the Russians, and other minorities were forced to take from one concentration camp to another. On these marches the prisoners died...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Story of Raphael Lemkin
An article about Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew who emigrated to the U.S. at the beginning of World War II. As a lawyer and scholar, he documented Nazi atrocities and coined the word "genocide."
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Hardships
Describes the hardships children faced in trying to hide from the Nazis, whether openly with false identity papers, or in a hiding place. These included hiding their Jewish faith and practices, being victimized by unscrupulous 'rescuers'...
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The History Place: The Defeat of Hitler: The Final Solution
Describes the German flood of anti-Jewish propaganda and the brutal methods used by the Nazis against the Jews in order to achieve their Final Solution.