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Journalist Charlie Inglefield and Yifat Cohen-Meir, daughter of Holocaust survivor Thomas Geve, reflected on Mr. Geve’s over 80 illustrations he made as a young adult that document his life…

Historians Alexandra Richie and Michael Neiberg discussed war and genocide. This program was part of the 14th annual International Conference on World War II hosted by the National World…

Author Matthew Rozell recounted U.S. 743rd Tank Battalion’s interception of a train with 2,500 people being transported to a concentration camp and the reunion of the troops and survivors…

Chiune Sugihara was a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania during World War II. Unbeknownst to his government, he issued hundreds of transfer visas to Jewish families trying to escape Nazi occupied…

Judy Batalion recounted the Jewish women who served as resistance fighters against the Nazis in Poland during World War II. This was a virtual event hosted by the Museum of Jewish Heritage…

Judy Batalion, the daughter of Holocaust survivors and author of The Light of Days, and Rebecca Donner, author of All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days, shared the stories of women who…

During the summer of 1942, Nazis and French collaborators began rounding up Jews living in the unoccupied region of France and deporting them to concentration camps in Poland. While he was away…

In observance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the National World War II Museum hosted an online event with survivor Steven Hess. Hess and his sister Marion are one of the few sets of…

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum hosted an online panel discussion titled, “How Did Young Americans Respond to the Nazi Threat?” Museum historians Edna Friedberg and Rebecca Erbelding…

The National World War II Museum hosted a panel discussion on Holocaust denial and the importance on continued education and scholarship of World War II history. This talk was part of the…

In a 1961 televised proceeding seen around the world, Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was put on trial in Israel for his role in the Holocaust. Historians Edna Friedberg and Elizabeth…

National Book Award-winning historian Wendy Lower recounted the mass killings in Ukraine that occurred during the Holocaust. This was a virtual event hosted by Harvard Book Store in…

Omer Bartov talked about the Holocaust experience in one Eastern European town that had been a community of Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews. Mr. Bartov is the author of Anatomy of a Genocide:…

At age 27, Benjamin Ferencz served as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials for the case against 22 leaders of the Einsatzgruppen, which were mobile Nazi death squads responsible for…

Curator Daniel Greene gave a tour of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibit which uses films, artifacts, and documents to explore how the U.S. public and government officials reacted…

Author Neal Bascomb discussed his book, “Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi.” Mr. Bascomb described how a tip from…

During World War II, a secret Nazi “euthanasia” program code-named T4 systematically murdered an estimated 250,000 people with mental and physical disabilities. Most were native-born…

This 1948 U.S. Army documentary of the Nuremberg trials was first screened in Germany in November, 1948 and was not released in the U.S. until a restored version was completed by a team in 2016. Using…

Journalist Jack Fairweather recounted the efforts of Witold Pilecki, a member of the Polish resistance during World War II, who volunteered to be deliberately captured and sent to Auschwitz…

Originally titled “Know Your Enemy: Germany” and intended for release during World War II, this U.S. War Department film was revised after Germany’s surrender into an orientation film for…