Top stories published by Memory & Action in August of 2022

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Aug 15, 2022

Rare Color Photos Show Ghetto in Different Light

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Memory & Action

Aug 12, 2022

How the Nazis Manipulated the Masses

The Nazis adapted age-old antisemitic lies and stereotypes to dehumanize Jewish people and…

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Memory & Action

Aug 12, 2022

A group of Jewish refugee children wait in the port of Lisbon to board the SS Mouzinho, which took them to the United States in 1941.

Refugees in Search of a Safe Haven

Fleeing terror at home, searching for safety and shelter. During the Holocaust, European Jews cried…

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Memory & Action

Aug 12, 2022

Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (left), a former Nazi, receives a federal civilian service award from President Dwight D. Eisenhower circa 1959.

Winning over Nazis to Win the War

After escaping the Nazis, Arno Mayer and other German Jewish refugees learned how to glean…

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Memory & Action

Aug 12, 2022

Halina Litman stands between her aunt, Irena Keh, and mother, Olga Litman, in a prewar photograph, circa 1934–39. Halina’s aunt was killed during the Holocaust.

A Mother’s Love: Sacrifices in Times of War

For as long as there has been war, mothers have risked their lives to protect their…

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Memory & Action

Aug 12, 2022

Nazi Storm Troopers and young German men holding pictures and pamphlets at a public book burning, circa 1933–1940.

Fires of Hate: How the Nazis Targeted Books and Free Thinking

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Memory & Action

Aug 12, 2022

Marion van Binsbergen Pritchard in 1946 (left). Hannah Szenes in 1938.

Subverting Stereotypes: Women Who Resisted

Hannah Szenes was just 23 years old when she parachuted into enemy territory in an…

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Memory & Action

Aug 12, 2022

The White Rose: Young Germans Who Took on the Nazis

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Memory & Action

Aug 12, 2022

Jews in 1941 in Lubny, Ukraine, who were later massacred.

How the War in Ukraine Is Shaped by Its Past

Today, the Ukrainian people are under attack. The story of their nation is forever…

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Memory & Action

Aug 12, 2022

Black jazz musician Freddy Johnson in the foreground; drawing of a man playing the piano by Black artist Josef Nassy in the background

Black Artists under Nazi Persecution

Jazz musician Freddy Johnson refused to let racism in America stall his career. He embraced…

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