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Names of the Holocaust. Names of the Holocaust vary based on context. "The Holocaust" is the name commonly applied in English since the mid-1940s to the systematic extermination of six million Jews by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Sunday-Thursday: 8:30-17:00. Fridays and holiday eves: 08:30-14:00. No reservation required. Entrance is permitted until 30 minutes before closing. Since its establishment, Yad Vashem has endeavored to gather the names of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust – one of its central missions. Yad Vashem’s Book of Names is the unique ...
Jul 12, 2006 · The United Nations has agreed to rename Auschwitz concentration camp to stress that Nazi Germans, not Poles, were responsible for the world’s most notorious death camp, Poland’s Culture...
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Since its inception, Yad Vashem has worked tirelessly to collect the names of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, and to document their lives. This exhibition tells the stories of just a few of the names that appear in Yad Vashem's Book of Names, a monumental installation containing the names of 4,800,000 Holocaust victims, which have been collected over decades
- Auschwitz: Genesis of Death Camps. After the start of World War II, Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, implemented a policy that came to be known as the “Final Solution.”
- Auschwitz: The Largest of the Death Camps. Auschwitz, the largest and arguably the most notorious of all the Nazi death camps, opened in the spring of 1940.
- Auschwitz and Its Subdivisions. At its peak of operation, Auschwitz consisted of several divisions. The original camp, known as Auschwitz I, housed between 15,000 and 20,000 political prisoners.
- Life and Death in Auschwitz. By mid-1942, the majority of those being sent by the Nazis to Auschwitz were Jews. Upon arriving at the camp, detainees were examined by Nazi doctors.
6 days ago · Auschwitz, Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp and extermination camp. Located near the industrial town of Oświęcim in southern Poland (in a portion of the country that was annexed by Germany at the beginning of World War II ), Auschwitz was actually three camps in one: a prison camp, an extermination camp, and a slave-labour camp.
As the Soviet Red Army approached Auschwitz in January 1945, toward the end of the war, the SS sent most of the camp's population west on a death march to camps inside Germany and Austria. Soviet troops entered the camp on 27 January 1945, a day commemorated since 2005 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
