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  1. 2 days ago · The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination ...

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    3 days ago · Karl Dönitz. Karl Dönitz (sometimes spelled Doenitz; German: [ˈdøːnɪts] ⓘ; 16 September 1891 – 24 December 1980) was a German admiral who briefly succeeded Adolf Hitler as head of state in May 1945, holding the position until the dissolution of the Flensburg Government following Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allies days later.

  3. 1 day ago · With the Nazi annexation of Austria and invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938, Paris was flooded with refugees, and she became the special agent for the rescue of the children from those countries. In 1938, Arendt completed her biography of Rahel Varnhagen, although this was not published until 1957.

  4. 4 days ago · St. Maksymilian Maria Kolbe (born January 8, 1894, Zduńska Wola, near Lodz, Russian Empire [now in Poland]—died August 14, 1941, Auschwitz [now Oświęcim]; feast day August 14) ; canonized October 10, 1982) was a Franciscan priest and religious founder martyred by the Nazis for aiding Jewish refugees during World War II.

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  5. 5 days ago · World War II and the Holocaust have given rise to many stories of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, unknown story of "Countess Janina Suchodolska," a Jewish woman who rescued more than 10,000 Poles imprisoned by Poland's Nazi occupiers.

  6. 6 days ago · New York State also mandates Holocaust education for public school students. Meanwhile, another pilot program will send thousands of city public school students to a Jewish museum in Brooklyn ...

  7. 5 days ago · Beginning with general resources & histories of anti-semitism, this section explores pivotal events within the Holocaust, such as the rise of Nazi Germany, the mass immigration and rescue of Jews, Hitler's "final solution," Holocaust events across Europe, resistance movements among Jews, and testimonies of Holocaust survivors.

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