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“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.”
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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 |
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| History of the Holocaust | |||||||
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Click on the picture of each survivor to learn more aboout their life during war time. |
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Robert Fisch |
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Robert 0. Fisch, a survivor of Nazi concentration camps, is a native of Budapest, Hungary. He completed medical school in Hungary, and came to America in 1957. Dr. Fisch became a medical intern and eventually a professor in pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, where he has practiced and taught ever since. Dr. Fisch is known internationally for his clinical research on PKU (phenylketonuria), a genetic disease.Dr. Fisch studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, the Walker Art Center, the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His work has been exhibited in one-man and group shows in St. Paul, Minneapolis, Washington, D.C., Memphis, Israel, and Austria. For decades, Dr. Fisch's feelings about the Holocaust and his experience were a private matter. Now he shares his story so others might learn from the past. His book Light from the Yellow Star: A Lesson of Love from the Holocaust, tells how he came to understand the power of love and freedom. |
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"Without freedom, you cannot live life with dignity" |
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Evolution"I never talked about the holocaust" |
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Presentation"Freedom has a price" |
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Impact"He's enabled each of us to start with ourselves" |
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"With Permission of Light With the Yellow Star Foundation." For purchase of VHS or DVD Copies, contact Dr. Stephen Feinstein at CHGS |
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Julius Ancer |
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Julius Ancer and wife, Niusia, April 23, 1945, Konin |
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| http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Histories Narratives__Documen/ Minnesotans_and_ The_Holocaust/julius_ancer/julius_ancer.html |
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Gerda Haas |
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Tracking the Holocaust (Library Binding) Reading level: Ages 9-12 |
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Sonia Zyroll |
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Alice Lok Cahana |
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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.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
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Bruchfeld, Stéphane , and Paul A. Levine. Tell ye your children…A book about the Holocaust in Europe 1933–1945. 2nd. Stockholm: Regeringskansliet, 1998.
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36 Questions About The Holocaust in Farsi: From Simon Weisenthal Center: |
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This is the History of the Nazi's Camps by Wolfgang Sofsky
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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