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Feng-Shan Ho was a Chinese diplomat who saved approximately 2,000 Jews during the early years of World War II. Ho was consul-general of the Chinese embassy in Vienna during the Austrian annexation

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March 24, 1939 Refugees arrive in England aboard the American ocean liner "Manhattan."

Jewish survivors of the Nazi concentration camps in Europe still wear the signs of their ordeal on their tattered clothing at the new immigrants' reception camp November 4, 1944 at Atlit, during the British Mandate of Palestine. 65th Anniversary, Hebrew Bible, Declaration Of Independence, World War Ii, Ww2, Victims, Continents, Baddies

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Jewish survivors of the Nazi concentration camps in Europe still wear the signs of their ordeal on their tattered clothing at the new immigrants' reception camp November 4, 1944 at Atlit, during the British Mandate of Palestine.

Women and children on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp". The Jews were removed from the deportation trains onto the ramp where they faced a selection process - some were sent immediately to their deaths, while others were sent to slave labor. Dachau, The Third Reich, Persecution, The Victim, Lest We Forget, The Past, Album

Women and children on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp". The Jews were removed from the deportation trains onto the ramp where they faced a selection process - some were sent immediately to their deaths, while others were sent to slave labor.

In 1943, a team of ingenious Italian doctors invented a deadly, contagious virus called Syndrome K to protect Jews from annihilation. On October 16 of that year, as Nazis closed in to liquidate Rome’s Jewish Italian Newspapers, Great Inventions, Pneumonia, The Fool, A Team, Disease, The Incredibles, Abstract Artwork

In 1943, a team of ingenious Italian doctors invented a deadly, contagious virus called Syndrome K to protect Jews from annihilation. On October 16 of that year, as Nazis closed in to liquidate Rome’s Jewish

Prisoners at the newly liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1945

The man who stumbled on HELL: His place in history has never been revealed. But a published memoir by an SAS officer recounts how he uncovered the horrors of Belsen. Lieutenant John Randall thought iron gates led to a grand country house. Then he saw figures, dressed in rags, shuffling from a hut. Trying not to retch at the smell, Randall addressed the prisoners. Afterwards he noticed the emaciated corpses locked in hideous embraces. The camp contained 50,000 prisoners, most of all near deat... Horror, Forgetting The Past, Interesting History, Interesting Facts, Military History

The man who stumbled on HELL: His place in history has never been revealed. But a published memoir by an SAS officer recounts how he uncovered the horrors of Belsen. Lieutenant John Randall thought iron gates led to a grand country house. Then he saw figures, dressed in rags, shuffling from a hut. Trying not to retch at the smell, Randall addressed the prisoners. Afterwards he noticed the emaciated corpses locked in hideous embraces. The camp contained 50,000 prisoners, most of all near deat...

The man who stumbled on HELL

SS Guards draging victims into a mass grave. (CC wk 16, 17, 21)

Tina Strobos, famous woman of the Dutch resistance who sheltered more than 100 Jews during the Holocaust, passed away at the age of 91. She risked her own life for total strangers. She found ingenious ways to forge travel documents. She let carpenters build hidden rooms in her own house. She was arrested multiple times and survived all the interrogations. Her house was searched multiple times. she said, “ I just believed in the sacredness of life.” Women In History, Dieselpunk, Great Women, Amazing Women, Amazing People, I Look To You

Tina Strobos, famous woman of the Dutch resistance who sheltered more than 100 Jews during the Holocaust, passed away at the age of 91. She risked her own life for total strangers. She found ingenious ways to forge travel documents. She let carpenters build hidden rooms in her own house. She was arrested multiple times and survived all the interrogations. Her house was searched multiple times. she said, “ I just believed in the sacredness of life.”

Chiune Sempo Sugihara, Japanese diplomat in Lithuania who saved 6,000 Jews. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18-20 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was still writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away. Important People, Granada, Unsung Hero, Angels Among Us, Religion

Chiune Sempo Sugihara, Japanese diplomat in Lithuania who saved 6,000 Jews. When the Nazis began rounding up Jews, Sugihara risked his life to start issuing unlawful travel visas to Jews. He hand-wrote them 18-20 hrs a day. The day his consulate closed and he had to evacuate, witnesses claim he was still writing visas and throwing from the train as he pulled away.

Hugo Boss started his clothing company in 1924 in Metzingen. His company was supplier for Nazi uniforms since 1924. Hugo Boss was one of the firms contracted by the Nazis to design the black SS uniforms along with the brown SA shirts, and the Hitler Youth uniforms. Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Hugo Boss, Fukushima, Men In Uniform, Pilot Uniform

Hugo Boss started his clothing company in 1924 in Metzingen. His company was supplier for Nazi uniforms since 1924. Hugo Boss was one of the firms contracted by the Nazis to design the black SS uniforms along with the brown SA shirts, and the Hitler Youth uniforms.

The corpses of two children at Bergen-Belsen. Anne Frank, along with her family, was deported to Bergen-Belsen just weeks before the liberation of her hometown of Amsterdam. She and her family, with the exception of her father, died of Typhus soon after their arrival at the camp. Today In History, Franks, Exception, Camping Gadgets

The corpses of two children at Bergen-Belsen. Anne Frank, along with her family, was deported to Bergen-Belsen just weeks before the liberation of her hometown of Amsterdam. She and her family, with the exception of her father, died of Typhus soon after their arrival at the camp.

The author of "Night," then a columnist at the Forverts, movingly wrote about the unlikely victory by Israel in June 1967.

A budding Jewish community is rediscovering its history in Palermo, and working with the local diocese to open a synagogue in the Sicilian capital. New York Times, Ny Times, Israel History, Diocese, Synagogue, Thessaloniki, Palermo, Reclaim

A budding Jewish community is rediscovering its history in Palermo, and working with the local diocese to open a synagogue in the Sicilian capital.

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A "Nova" production on PBS documents the scientific techniques that verified an incredible story about a group of mostly Lithuanian Jews who escaped Nazi imprisonment. Aragon, Never Again, Scientific Method, Archeologist, Journaling, United Kingdom, Lithuania, Peace

A "Nova" production on PBS documents the scientific techniques that verified an incredible story about a group of mostly Lithuanian Jews who escaped Nazi imprisonment.

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Poland History

Invasion Of Poland

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Anet Klain was only 4 when she was sadly killed in a mass murder during her imprisonment at the Lodz ghetto in Poland in 1943

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Pregnant woman and child's remains. Holocaust victims.

2 year old Michiel Adriaan Belifante sadly killed in Auschwitz on October 25, 1944.

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Ethel Landesman murdered in Sobibor on March 13, 1943 at age 2-Central DB of Shoah Victims' Names - Record Details

Sylviane Amar age 11 from Sevran, France was sadly murdered in Auschwitz on September 4, 1943.

Extermination Camp

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Cristian Avram was sadly killed in Auschwitz death camp in 1944 at age 4

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Hungary, Bodies of Jewish toddlers, victims of the Arrow Cross Party.

Jewish History

1,416 Pins

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Marnie Schwartz

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Feng-Shan Ho was a Chinese diplomat who saved approximately 2,000 Jews during the early years of World War II. Ho was consul-general of the Chinese embassy in Vienna during the Austrian annexation

Stanford Prison Experiment

March 24, 1939 Refugees arrive in England aboard the American ocean liner "Manhattan."

65th Anniversary

Hebrew Bible

Declaration Of Independence

Prisoners at the newly liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1945

The man who stumbled on HELL

SS Guards draging victims into a mass grave. (CC wk 16, 17, 21)

The author of "Night," then a columnist at the Forverts, movingly wrote about the unlikely victory by Israel in June 1967.

A budding Jewish community is rediscovering its history in Palermo, and working with the local diocese to open a synagogue in the Sicilian capital.

Soon There Will Be No More Survivors

A "Nova" production on PBS documents the scientific techniques that verified an incredible story about a group of mostly Lithuanian Jews who escaped Nazi imprisonment.

“Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people… Propaganda works on the general public from the standpoint of ...

We Will Never Forget

Poland History

Invasion Of Poland

Time Heals All Wounds

Captain Corellis Mandolin