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Voices of the Holocaust During the 1930s and 40s, the Nazis and their collaborators murdered six million Jews. Hitler's intention was to destroy all Jewish communities, and to build a 'master race' of Aryans. Many other 'non-aryans' were persecuted including Romanies, homosexuals, and the disabled, as well as those who were politically opposed to the Nazis. Voices of the Holocaust consists of oral history testimonies gathered from Jewish men and women who came to live in Britain during or after WWII. Further interviews with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust can be found on the Sounds website. Survivor testimonies Listen to personal stories from Jewish Holocaust survivors, and learn what life was like for Jews during Hitler's reign. Information cards Discover more about the background to the Holocaust. Reference Consult maps, statistics, a glossary of terms and a chronological chart tracing significant moments of the 1930s and 40s Activities Teachers' pages ShareThis Survivor testimonies Information cards Reference

Guía web Ana Frank - Banco de fuentes única en línea para alumnos europeos Aquí imágenes e información Ana Frank Familia Casa de atrás El final Diario La Guerra La vida judía Shoá La liberación Auschwitz Concentration Camp What Was Auschwitz? Built by the Nazis as both a concentration and death camp , Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi's camps and the most streamlined mass killing center ever created. It was at Auschwitz that 1.1 million people were murdered, mostly Jews. Auschwitz has become a symbol of death, the Holocaust , and the destruction of European Jewry. Dates: May 1940 -- January 27, 1945 Camp Commandants: Rudolf Höss, Arthur Liebehenschel, Richard Baer Auschwitz Established On April 27, 1940, Heinrich Himmler ordered the construction of a new camp near Oswiecim, Poland (about 37 miles or 60 km west of Krakow). Auschwitz I (or "the Main Camp") was the original camp. Auschwitz II (or "Birkenau") was completed in early 1942. Auschwitz III (or "Buna-Monowitz") was built last as "housing" for the forced laborers at the Buna synthetic rubber factory in Monowitz. Arrival and Selection Gas Chambers and Crematoria at Auschwitz The gas killed quickly, but it was not instantaneous.

Ana Frank The Holocaust Library of Congress Resources Introduction: Nuremberg Race Laws | Kristallnacht | GhettosConcentration Camps: Dachau | Bergen-Belsen | AuschwitzRighteous Among the Nations: Gies | Schindler | Winton | Grueninger Primary Source and Analysis Tools | Library of Congress Resources Primary Source Sets | PDF Version Library of Congress Resources Exhibits Herblock! Herblock's History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the Millennium. American Memory The Hannah Arendt Papers at the Library of Congress. American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940. America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945. Webcasts Holocaust Cantata. Breaking the Holocaust Silence: A Hidden Hasidic Text of 1947. Women Against Tyranny: Poems of the Resistance During the Holocaust. Emissary of the Doomed. Ibsen and Hitler: The Playwright, the Plagiarist and the Plot for the Third Reich. Prints and Photographs Posters: Artist Posters. Miscellaneous Items in High Demand. Exhibits

Ana Frank Annelies Marie Frank Hollander, conocida en español como Ana Frank (Fráncfort del Meno, 12 de junio de 1929-Bergen-Belsen, marzo de 1945)[1] [nota 1] fue una niña judía alemana, mundialmente conocida gracias al Diario de Ana Frank, la edición en forma de libro de su diario íntimo, donde dejó constancia de los casi dos años y medio que pasó ocultándose, con su familia y cuatro personas más, de los nazis en Ámsterdam (Países Bajos) durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Su familia fue capturada y llevada a distintos campos de concentración alemanes. El único sobreviviente de los ocho escondidos fue Otto Frank, su padre. Ana fue enviada al campo de concentración nazi de Auschwitz el 2 de septiembre de 1944 y, más tarde, al campo de concentración de Bergen-Belsen, donde murió de tifus en marzo de 1945, pocos días antes de que éste fuera liberado.[3] En 1947, apenas dos años después de terminada la guerra, Otto publicó el diario bajo el título La casa de atrás (en neerlandés, Het Achterhuis).

Concentration camps - Key Stage 3 - The Holocaust Explained A concentration camp is a place where people are detained or confined without trial. Prisoners were kept in extremely harsh conditions and without any rights. In Nazi Germany after 1933, and across Nazi controlled Europe between 1938 and 1945, concentration camps became a major way in which the Nazis imposed their control. The first concentration camps in Germany were set up as detention centres to stop any opposition to the Nazis by so called ‘enemies of the state’. However, after March 1938, when the Germans annexed Austria into German territory, many thousands of German Jews were arrested and detained in Dachau, Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps. After Kristallnacht (the ‘Night of broken glass’) in November 1938, the Nazis and their supporters arrested many thousands of male Jews above the age of 14 years.

World War II: The Holocaust - The Atlantic One of the most horrific terms in history was used by Nazi Germany to designate human beings whose lives were unimportant, or those who should be killed outright: Lebensunwertes Leben, or "life unworthy of life". The phrase was applied to the mentally impaired and later to the "racially inferior," or "sexually deviant," as well as to "enemies of the state" both internal and external. From very early in the war, part of Nazi policy was to murder civilians en masse, especially targeting Jews. Warning: All images in this entry are shown in full, not screened out for graphic content.

Children's Diaries during the Holocaust BACKGROUND At least 1.1 million Jewish children were murdered during the Holocaust. Of the millions of children who suffered persecution at the hands of the Nazis and their Axis partners, only a small number wrote diaries and journals that have survived. In these accounts, the young writers documented their experiences, confided their feelings, and reflected on the trauma they endured during these nightmare years. THE DIARY OF MIRIAM WATTERNBERG The diary of Miriam Wattenberg (“Mary Berg”) was one of the first children's journals which revealed to a wider public the horrors of the Holocaust. Wattenberg was born in Lódz on October 10, 1924. She began a wartime diary in October 1939, shortly after Poland surrendered to German forces. Shortly before the first large deportation of Warsaw Jews to Treblinka in the summer of 1942, German officials detained Miriam, her family, and other Jews bearing foreign passports in the infamous Pawiak Prison. Each diary reflects a fragment