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A Nanny’s Promise to Save a Young Boy during the Holocaust
A Nanny’s Promise to Save a Young Boy during the Holocaust
Before the war, Catholic nanny Gertruda Babilińska cared for Michael Stołowicki, the young son of a Jewish family living in Warsaw. She…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Out of the Shadows: Stories of Sexual Violence in the Holocaust
Out of the Shadows: Stories of Sexual Violence in the Holocaust
It’s a story you may not know. During the Holocaust, sexual violence was used to terrorize, control, and dehumanize Jewish people. In the…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Irena Sendler: Risking Her Life to Save Others
Irena Sendler: Risking Her Life to Save Others
During World War II, Polish social worker Irena Sendler leveraged her vast network to smuggle food, medicine, and supplies into the Warsaw…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Confronting Complicity: Exploring Ordinary Germans’ Roles in the Holocaust
Confronting Complicity: Exploring Ordinary Germans’ Roles in the Holocaust
The boys in this photo were more than just neighbors — they were playmates, even friends before the Nazis took power. Unbeknown to them…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Surviving Auschwitz: A Child Emerges from the Holocaust
Surviving Auschwitz: A Child Emerges from the Holocaust
It’s some of the most indelible Holocaust imagery: a group of children wearing striped uniforms pulling back their sleeves to reveal…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Preying on Young Minds and Normalizing Extremism
Preying on Young Minds and Normalizing Extremism
By the time he turned 15, Peter Becker proudly considered himself “150 percent Nazi.” Peter grew up in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
The Last Goodbye: Separating to Save Their Children
The Last Goodbye: Separating to Save Their Children
They dressed their children — some just babies — in their best clothing, lovingly packed toys and family photos, and prepared to say…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
The Night of Broken Glass: A Warning of Future Nazi Crimes
The Night of Broken Glass: A Warning of Future Nazi Crimes
Starting on November 9, 1938, the Nazis orchestrated a wave of nationwide violence targeting Jewish communities. Rioters destroyed…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Native American Soldiers: Warriors and Witnesses to the Holocaust
Native American Soldiers: Warriors and Witnesses to the Holocaust
Comanche code talker Charles Chibitty was one of many Native Americans who used their languages to communicate secret messages that stumped…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
A Story of Survival Told through Generations
A Story of Survival Told through Generations
Lilly’s young granddaughter, Miriam, couldn’t help but ask about the tattoo on her arm. The series of numbers was inked on Lilly’s body at…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Daring Teachers Who Made a Difference
Daring Teachers Who Made a Difference
Surrounded by starvation and death, children in the Łódź ghetto had a hard time imagining their future. But Jewish headmistress Stella Rein…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
A Jewish Boy Survives in Hiding: Not Far from Anne Frank’s Annex
A Jewish Boy Survives in Hiding: Not Far from Anne Frank’s Annex
Leo survived the Holocaust in hiding with strangers as a toddler — in Amsterdam, the same city where Anne Frank hid and was later…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Pride Month: Defying the Nazi Campaign to Control Sexuality
Pride Month: Defying the Nazi Campaign to Control Sexuality
Berlin was known as the gay capital of the world until Nazis began terrorizing LGBTQ+ people and shut down the Eldorado Club in 1933. But…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
A Dangerous Blessing: Pregnancy and Motherhood in the Holocaust
A Dangerous Blessing: Pregnancy and Motherhood in the Holocaust
Two months pregnant, Priska Löwenbein clung to her husband inside the railcar. In a last act of hope, they named their baby before arriving…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
An Heiress Turned Rescuer during the Holocaust
An Heiress Turned Rescuer during the Holocaust
She was a multimillionaire at age 11, but as she got older wanted no part of life as a socialite. Living in Vienna as the Nazis seized…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Victimized Twice: Holocaust Survivors in Ukraine
Victimized Twice: Holocaust Survivors in Ukraine
Vanda Vasil’eva and her mother, Maria, hid when the Nazis rounded up and killed thousands of Jews in Mariupol. Seven months later…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
The Moment She Lost Her Family Captured in a Photo
The Moment She Lost Her Family Captured in a Photo
The scene is seared in Irene’s memory. One minute she was holding hands with her younger sister. The next, a Nazi officer separated them…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
May 22
Hope during the Holidays
Hope during the Holidays
While hiding from Nazi persecution of Jews, two-year-old Norbert Obstfeld and his mother, Lea, celebrated Christmas with their rescuers…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jan 15, 2023
Adoption Month: From Strangers to Family
Adoption Month: From Strangers to Family
A notice on the shoe factory’s bulletin board prompted the British couple to volunteer. They knew little; a Jewish child fleeing Nazi…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jan 15, 2023
Disability Awareness Month: “Science” That Maimed
Disability Awareness Month: “Science” That Maimed
In 1942, Nazi doctors subjected Jadwiga Dzido to barbaric “medical” experiments at the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany. She was…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jan 15, 2023
A Divided America Responds to Nazi Persecution
A Divided America Responds to Nazi Persecution
Reports out of Germany in the late 1930s and early 1940s showed that life was increasingly dangerous for Jews. Some Americans urged the US…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jan 15, 2023
Hispanic Americans Sacrificing to Serve Their Country
Hispanic Americans Sacrificing to Serve Their Country
Tony Acevedo was a devoted American despite the discrimination he faced because of his Mexican heritage. He was among more than 500,000…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jan 15, 2023
The Foot Soldiers of White Supremacy
The Foot Soldiers of White Supremacy
In August 2017, white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the removal of Confederate statues. Their flaming…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Jan 15, 2023
Refugees in Search of a Safe Haven
Refugees in Search of a Safe Haven
Fleeing terror at home, searching for safety and shelter. During the Holocaust, European Jews cried out to the world for help, desperate to…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Aug 12, 2022
Winning over Nazis to Win the War
Winning over Nazis to Win the War
After escaping the Nazis, Arno Mayer and other German Jewish refugees learned how to glean information from the enemy as part of a secret…
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Aug 12, 2022
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