“Belated moral condemnation and humane regret are not enough. The historical facts must be made known, the social causes that made them possible must be understood, and we must become aware of our own responsibility for what goes on around us. We do not escape the past by thrusting it to the back of our minds.”

Gerhard Schoenberner
The Yellow Star: The Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933-1945

From 1933 to 1945 the German Government under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, was responsible for an era of terror and mass murder of millions in Europe. Under the banner of Nazism, Germans and their collaborators committed unspeakable crimes against their fellow human beings. European Jews as a group was the main target of this mass genocide. During this time, approximately six million Jewish men, women and children --two-thirds of all the Jews in Europe--were killed. Jews in Germany and most of the countries occupied by Germany were ghettoized and murdered in labor camps and in gas chambers. The Holocaust symbolized the supreme example of genocide where a government set out to destroy an entire people. Several thousand pieces of information in different formats about the Holocaust are available on this website. Throughout this site attempts are made to offer access to bilingual educational materials, evidences/ documentaries, and compelling
eyewitness accounts of Holocaust survivors in multi-media format for the young generation of Iran as well as the general Farsi speaking public inside and outside of Iran. This site also sponsors on-line educational events.

The Holocaust was the systematic mass murder of approximately six million Jews and millions of other people by Adolf Hitler and the German Nazis party leading up to and during the Second World War. Read More

• 1923–1938 - Nazis in Power
• 1939–1941 - Europe Under Occupation
• 1942–1944 - Extermination and Resistance
• 1945–1962 - Liberation and the Aftermath

Click on the picture of each survivor to learn more aboout their life during war time.

Survivor from Konin, Poland who was in a German POW camp in Poland. Ancer relates his own experiences as well as the destruction of Jewish life in his home town. Julius Ancer passed away on May 7, 2005 in Minneapolis.

  Julius Ancer and wife, Niusia, April 23, 1945, Konin

A survivor from a small town in Germany, Gerda Haas is also author of
"Tracking the Holocaust" (Lerner Publications, 1995) ISBN: 0822531577  and
"These I do Remember: Fragments from the Holocaust."
(1982 Out of print:  ISBN: 0870272039)

In this interview Haas talks about her life and aspects of her book, recommended for grades 6 and up by Library Digest: In this shortened version of Haas's These I Do Remember (Cumberland, 1982; o.p.), eight accounts of heroism, survival, and tragedy have been greatly abbreviated. Here, the author focuses on the historical context of the Holocaust and on tracking Hitler's expansion of power. The inspirational description of her own harrowing escape from Nazi concentration camps begins the book. Also included is a vignette of Fania Fenelon, a French singer whose voice helped her survive Auschwitz. But the other six stories are more briefly told and lack the important detail and emotional impact of Haas's and Fenelon's. Rather than accentuating the tragedies of the Holocaust, the personal experiences melt into the historical narrative. However, full-page maps clarify this information, and the excellent black-and-white photographs help to personalize the sketchy details.

Survivor from Chortkov/Czortkow, Ukraine who settled in Duluth, Minnesota. She describes her escape from a mass shooting of the Jews in her town.

Survivor from Sarvar, Hungary, deported to Auschwitz and later Bergen-Belsen, then taken to Sweden for recovery. Cahana is now recognized as one of the best artists who has attempted to deal with the issue of representation of the Holocaust. See VIRTUAL MUSEUM for art.

The New Videos listed below are from the Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, where Alice Lok Cahana had a retrospective exhibition. She is shown talking about her art work.

Bruchfeld, Stéphane , and Paul A. Levine. Tell ye your children…A book about the Holocaust in Europe 1933–1945. 2nd. Stockholm: Regeringskansliet, 1998.

English
http://www.levandehistoria.org/documents/boken/engelska.pdf

http://www.levandehistoria.org/documents/boken/persiska.pdf

36 Questions About The Holocaust in Farsi: From Simon Weisenthal Center:
http://www.wiesenthal.com/36questionsinfarsi

This is the History of the Nazi's Camps by Wolfgang Sofsky

http://www.ayandehnegar.org/page1. php?news_id=2961

The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process of mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a unique document and was donated to Yad Vashem by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier.

http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/ album_auschwitz/10-13.html

Studying and learning about discrimination and genocide is an important step in preventing future atrocities. The following educational resources are found on the Internet. These are but a few of the many sites now offering educational resources covering the Holocaust and genocide. Many of these resources are classroom ready. The resources will be available in Farsi in the near future.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country’s memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust.
http://www.ushmm.org