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Jan 24, 2020 · Between May 2 and July 9, more than 425,000 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Men selected for forced labor from amongst Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau, in German-occupied Poland ...
Nov 16, 2009 · Soviet troops liberate the Polish capital from German occupation. Warsaw was a battleground since the opening day of fighting in the European theater. Germany declared war by launching an air raid ...
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It was one of the most stunning archaeological finds of the 20th century. In 1974, farmers digging a well stumbled across a life-sized clay figure that, government archaeologists later discovered, belonged to a vast army of terra cotta soldierscreated to protect China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang, in the afterlife. The massive mausoleum, created ...
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History bills itself as the greatest single collection of U.S. history in the world, home to more than 1.8 million objects that each, in some fundamental way, defines the American experience. The museum offers about 100 online exhibits from its encyclopedic collections, each with a mix of photos, video,...
War planes. Spy planes. Spacecraft. Gliders. Kit planes. Eccentric contraptions. This sprawling museum, adjacent to the Boeing complex south of Seattle, Washington, is considered one of the world’s largest and best air and space museums, with more than 150 aircraft, 25,000-plus aviation-related artifacts and a huge array of exhibits that collective...
Come for the deep well of biographies and digital classroom resources, stay for the wide array of virtual exhibits, many of which are enabled by Google Arts & Culture. For two decades, the National Women’s History Museum has been the largest online cultural institution telling the stories of women who helped transform the U.S. Heavy with slide show...
Anne Frank’s diary, chronicling her life in hiding during World War II, remains one of the most powerful testimonies to the horrors of the Holocaust. If a trip to Amsterdam to visit the Anne Frank House isn’t in the cards, AnneFrank.org offers the next best thing. In addition to tons of informative content about the teen, her diary and the war, the...
FDR, America’s only four-term president, presided over the nation during two of its most trying ordeals: the Great Depression and World War II. This online experience walks users room by room through the exhibits in his extensive presidential library and museum in Hyde Park, New York, drawing together a wealth of original documents, artifacts, vide...
Calling all space geeks: Report to the NASA site for ultimate fun in the final frontier. Get the full scoop on all the key NASA programs past and present, from the Hubble Telescope to the Mars Rover to the upcoming Parker Solar Probe. Check out the History hub to dive deep into photos, videos and articles about all their historic missions. Enjoy a ...
The Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. presents powerful online exhibits brimming with resources such as videos, timelines, glossaries and image galleries rich with potent original artifacts. Themes include Collaboration & Complicity, Nazi Propaganda, Americans and the Holocaust, Racial Health Policies and more. Elsewhere on the museum’s...
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Nov 5, 2009 · Auschwitz is liberated. Photo Credit: Sovfoto/Universal Images Group/Getty Images. On January 27, 1945, Soviet troops enter Auschwitz, Poland, freeing the survivors of the network of concentration ...
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Nov 5, 2009 · On September 27, 1939, 140,000 Polish troops are taken prisoner by the German invaders as Warsaw surrenders to Hitler’s army. The Poles fought bravely, but were able to hold on for only 26 days ...
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Feb 9, 2010 · Warsaw Uprising ends. Photo Credit: Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. The Warsaw Uprising ends on October 2, 1944, with the surrender of the surviving Polish rebels to German forces ...
Nov 13, 2009 · Warsaw Pact’s military union ends. After 36 years in existence, the Warsaw Pact—the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites—comes to an end. The action ...
