During the Holocaust, the Nazis imprisoned and murdered Jews and other groups at thousands of camps throughout Europe. The ...

In anticipation of both the Winter Olympics and the Summer Games, Hitler directed that signs stating "Jews not wanted" and similar slogans should be removed from primary traffic arteries. In some ...

Avery Brundage, president of the American Olympic Committee, fought to send a U.S. team to the 1936 Olympics, claiming: "The Olympic Games belong to the athletes and not to the politicians." He wrote ...

Soon after Hitler took power, the Nazis began to exclude Jews from German sport and recreational facilities. Barred from German sports clubs, Jewish athletes flocked to separate Jewish associations, ...

The Nazi rise to power brought an end to the Weimar Republic, a parliamentary democracy established in Germany after World War I.

2. Warsaw Jews demonstrate against Hitlerism, Fascism and attacks on Jewish schools. II linking the need to fight fascism on the war front with the need to fight racism on the home front. ... many saw ...

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Annual Lecture The persecution and murder of “enemies of the state” was an open secret during the Holocaust, but the Nazis ...

The internationally recognized date for Holocaust Remembrance Day corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In Hebrew, ...

How it was possible for 6 million Jews to be murdered by the citizens of a nation that was predominantly Christian? How did the Christian churches elsewhere in Europe and in the United States respond ...

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Electronic data regarding victims from the Soviet Extraordinary Commission; data includes names, ages, dates of birth and nationalities ...