'In het jaar waarin we 75 jaar bevrijding herdenken staat architect Jacques Prins ook stil bij plaatsen van herinnering. In dit boek brengt hij 40 van deze plekken, verspreid over Europa en uit de naoorlogse periode samen, gedocumenteerd in tekst, tekeningen en foto's. Bij al deze plekken is het doel steeds zonder te reconstrueren toch het gevoel van beklemming en onthechting op de bezoeker over te ...

Description of most of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room

"Each year, millions of people visit Holocaust memorials and museums, with the number of tourists steadily on the rise. What lies behind the phenomenon of "Holocaust tourism" and what role do its participants play in shaping how we remember and think about the Holocaust? In Postcards from Auschwitz, Daniel P. Reynolds argues that tourism to former concentration camps, ghettos, and other places associated ...

Omslagtitel. - Geen titelpag. 46 p. : ill., portr. ; 21 cm

"The United States and the Nazi Holocaust is an invaluable synthesis of United States policies and attitudes towards the Nazi persecution of European Jewry from 1933 right up to the modern day. The book, which includes 20 illustrations, weaves together a vast body of scholarly literature to bring students of the Holocaust a balanced, readable overview of this complex and often controversial topic. ...

TR.17 - Documentation from the Archive of the Main Commission for Investigation of Crimes against the Polish People, the Institute of National Remembrance in Poland
 
 In the Record Group there is documentation gathered by the Main Commission for Investigation of Crimes against the Polish People, which was active in Poland after World War II.
 
 The Commission gathered much documentation ...

403 pages, [24] pages of color plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

This thesis focuses on national Holocaust museums and memorials in Europe, in specific regards to the national Holocaust museums of Belgium and France, and the national Holocaust memorial of Germany. This dissertation begins with a brief overview of the scholars used within each chapter, along with a discussion on the development of national Holocaust museums in Europe in the introduction chapter. ...

The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by the Nazis as part of the secretive Operation Reinhardt -- with intent to carry out the mass murder of Polish Jewry. Following the construction of the extermination camp at Belzec in south-eastern Poland from November 1941 to March 1942, the Nazis planned a second extermination camp at Sobibor, and the third and deadliest camp was built ...

The first Jews arrived in Uruguay at the end of the 19th century from neighboring countries. From the twentieth century began to arrive from overseas pushed by the crisis of the Ottoman Empire and the persecution of the Tsarist Empire. Later the Jews came from Hungary, and finally from Germany with the assumption of Hitler to power in January 1933 in Germany. The degree of religiosity was an especially ...

Official Czech newsreel folowing the assassination of Heydrich. The Czech government proclaims their loyalty to the Germans in a remembrance ceremony. “Cesky ZVUKOVÝ TÝDENÍK” “Prag-Praha” “KTULIA AKTUALITÀ” Church of Our Lady Before Tyn in Prague - a mass demonstration in Old Town Square on June 2, 1942. Stage with Czech coat of arms. Crowd. Astronomical Clock Tower. People stand and sit on the Jan ...

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Tekst in het Nederlands en Engels. 398 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Omslagtitel. - Geen titelpag. 64 p. ; 30 cm.

Corporatienaam later: Yad Vashem, Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. v. : Ill. ; 24 cm.

Congress mandated the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to lead the nation in annual civic commemorations of the victims of the Holocaust, called Days of Remembrance. The Days of Remembrance give us all an oppotunity to advance the Museum's primary mission to inform Americans about this unprecedented tragedy, to commemorate those who suffered, and to inspire visitors to contemplate the moral ...

Copyright Holder: Dr. Zwi Barnea

This speech by the German Federal President, Roman, Herzog, was made to support his decision to designate 27 January as Holocaust Remembrance Day. The text of this version came from the German Embassy in London.

Copyright Holder: Congregation Shaarey Tikvah

Consists of a copy of a news release entitled "Informations Bulletin" published by Rat der Jüdischen Gemeinden in Bömen und Mären zu Prag in March 1959. The release describes a variety of Holocaust remembrance events concerning the Jewry of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the Holocaust. Among the topics mentioned are the killing of thousands of Czechoslovakian Jews in the gas chamber ...

Herman Wouk's sweeping epic of World War II, which begins with The Winds of War and continues in War and Remembrance, stands as the crowning achievement of one of America's most celebrated storytellers. Like no other books about the war, Wouk's spellbinding narrative captures the tide of global events - the drama, the romance, the heroism and the tragedy of World War II - as it immerses us in the lives ...

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Folder. [6] p. ; 21 cm.