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In Nazi concentration camps, music was a weapon of torment and resistance. SS officers forced Jewish musicians, like violinist Shony Braun, to compete in humiliating life or death performances. They ...

This video explains what propaganda is and how Hitler and the Nazis used it to exclude Jews and other groups from German society. They relied on a variety of advertising techniques, like catchy ...

The Nazis established many types of camps, including concentration camps, forced-labor camps, transit camps, and five killing centers, among others. By the end of the Holocaust and World War II, ...

The presence of the German military at the Winter Games dampened visitors' mood at the festival. Here, Hitler inspects troops in Garmisch during the Games. February 1936.

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 ...

For two and a half years of her early childhood, Louise Lawrence-Israëls never once played outside or felt the grass under her feet. Louise was born into a ...

Explore the vast differences in how ordinary people displayed great courage or willful complicity in the face of devastating violence during the rise of ...

The Museum offers a wide selection of online resources about the Holocaust and other genocides and mass atrocities. These tools provide a variety of ways to learn and teach about this important ...

As a token gesture to mollify the West, German authorities allowed the half-Jewish fencer Helene Mayer to represent Germany in Berlin. She had been studying at Mills College in California. No other ...

Austrian Robert Fein, who was of Jewish descent, won the gold medal in weightlifting (lightweight class). August 2, 1936.

This 1,100-square-foot traveling exhibition is based on the exhibition that opened in 2018 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The Americans and the Holocaust traveling ...