The National WWII Museum » The Holocaust
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Offering a compelling blend of sweeping narrative and poignant personal detail, The National WWII Museum features immersive exhibits, multimedia experiences, and an expansive collection of artifacts and first-person oral histories, taking visitors inside the story of the war that changed the world. Beyond the galleries, the Museum's online collections, virtual field trips, webinars,..
The National WWII Museum » The Holocaust
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Stutthof concentration camp was among the sites of horror caught up in this gruesome crescendo to Adolf Hitler’s war for racial supremacy ..read more
The National WWII Museum » The Holocaust
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The commemorations on January 27 remind us that the Holocaust was the result of step-by-step decisions by individuals that led to the largest genocide in the history of mankind in a wave of antisemitism, intolerance, and hatred ..read more
The National WWII Museum » The Holocaust
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Join The National WWII Museum for a morning of remembrance and reflection ..read more
The National WWII Museum » The Holocaust
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or the Night of Broken Glass was the Nazi dictatorship’s declaration of war against German and Austrian Jews in November 1938 ..read more
The National WWII Museum » The Holocaust
6M ago
In October 1943, SS leader Heinrich Himmler gave two speeches, showing the full depravity of the exterminationist mindset ..read more
The National WWII Museum » The Holocaust
7M ago
The creation of ghettos during World War II was a key part of Nazi plans to brutally persecute, separate, and eventually liquidate Europe’s Jewish population ..read more
The National WWII Museum » The Holocaust
8M ago
The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the world’s most widely read books, which has made Anne an international symbol and her story deeply embedded in the collective memory of the Holocaust. ..read more
The National WWII Museum » The Holocaust
10M ago
Wartime reshaped life and death in the Dachau concentration camp in fundamental ways ..read more
The National WWII Museum » The Holocaust
10M ago
For the last several days of its existence, before soldiers of the United States Seventh Army arrived, Dachau was a small, self-enclosed universe of decay and death ..read more
The National WWII Museum » The Holocaust
10M ago
Marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, The National WWII Museum connects two instances of remorse for Nazi criminality by leading German politicians ..read more