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4 days ago · A memorial banner includes the names of many of the Jews murdered by the Nazis at Jungfernhof in Latvia, as seen during an event at Brandeis University in April 2024. (Courtesy Mike E. Dunne)
4 days ago · Decades behind other European countries in restitution efforts for victims and heirs, the country only in 2022 allocated funds — $46 million — for the first time to reimburse the Jewish ...
1 day ago · Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin This dramatic memorial near Berlin's Brandenburg Gate consists of 2,711 concrete slabs arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field.
3 days ago · May 18, 2024. Book Online. The unique Children’s Memorial, an exhibit honoring the memory of the 1.5 million Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust, opened in 2022. It is a significant addition to the Virginia Holocaust Museum’s permanent collection.
5 days ago · Untapped New York. Two compelling exhibits at the Museum of Jewish Heritage explore the stories of Holocaust survivors through portraits, historic documents, and artifacts.
2 days ago · The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum estimates that the Ustaše murdered between 77,000 and 99,000 people at Jasenovac between 1941 and 1945, including "between 45,000 and 52,000 Serb residents of the so-called Independent State of Croatia, between 12,000 and 20,000 Jews, between 15,000 and 20,000 Roma (Gypsies), between 5,000 and 12,000 ...
4 days ago · The Holocaust, also called The Shoah in Israel and Jewish communities (a Hebrew word meaning "catastrophe"), is a period of increasing persecution and ultimately systematic murder of the majority of Jews in Europe as well as other groups by Nazi Germany from 1933-1945.
