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Everyone shut the 🤬 up the holocaust was a lie

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Олександра Шулежко

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Олександра Шулежко

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У роки Другої світової війни вона врятувала від голодної смерті близько сотні черкаських сиріт, серед яких було багато дітей з єврейських родин. Цю дивовижну жінку - Олександру Шулежко - посмертно нагородили пам'ятною медаллю і дипломом "Праведник народів Світу", а на Черкащині називають черкаським Шиндлером.

Документальну стрічку "Олександра Шулежко. Доля праведниці" присвячено маловідомій широкому загалові українській героїні.

Над створенням фільму працювала команда документалістів телеканалу, яким вдалося поспілкуватися і записати розповіді доньки Олександри Шулежко та свідків деяких подій з її життя часів Другої світової.

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Олександра Шулежко. Доля праведниці

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You don't have javascript enabled. Good luck! У роки Другої світової війни вона врятувала від голодної смерті близько сотні черкаських сиріт, серед яких було багато дітей з єврейських родин. Цю дивовижну жінку - Олександру Шулежко - посмертно нагородили пам'ятною медаллю і дипломом "Праведник народів Світу", а на Черкащині називають черкаським Шиндлером.

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My Italian Secret, the film by Oren Jacoby,  inaugurated the ninth Rome Film Festival in 2014. The film tells stories of heroism. We learn of a doctor who shielded Jews in a hospital ward by claiming they had a nonexistent illness, and of nuns and monks who provided protection. Survivors and their descendants revisit their hiding places and reunite with the families of those who sheltered them.Narrated by Isabella Rossellini, the movie unfolds in a somewhat standard testimonial documentary format, mixing old photographs, re-enactments and a heavy-handed soundtrack. It provides a reasonable primer on Italy’s complicated history with the Holocaust and the Italian resistance. 

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My Italian Secret, the film by Oren Jacoby,  inaugurated the ninth Rome Film Festival in 2014. The film tells stories of heroism. We learn of a doctor who shielded Jews in a hospital ward by claiming they had a nonexistent illness, and of nuns and monks who provided protection. Survivors and their descendants revisit their hiding places and reunite with the families of those who sheltered them.Narrated by Isabella Rossellini, the movie unfolds in a somewhat standard testimonial documentary format, mixing old photographs, re-enactments and a heavy-handed soundtrack. It provides a reasonable primer on Italy’s complicated history with the Holocaust and the Italian resistance. 

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Donatella Losito, Antonella Sellia and Antonella Miliè 

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Donatella Losito, Antonella Sellia and Antonella Miliè 

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Today we had an important event about the Holocaust  at "Vivaldi" school in Catanzaro, Italy. Students played on stage in front of their Principal,  teachers and families. It was a great emotion for everyone! We remember!

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POLAND

When World War II broke out, Irena Sendler was a 29-year-old social worker, employed by the Welfare Department of the Warsaw municipality. After the German occupation, the department continued to take care of the great number of poor and dispossessed people in the city. Irena Sendler took advantage of her job in order to help the Jews, however this became practically impossible once the ghetto was sealed off in November 1940. Close to 400,000 people had been driven into the small area that had been allocated to the ghetto, and their situation soon deteriorated. The poor hygienic conditions in the crowded ghetto, the lack of food and medical supplies resulted in epidemics and high death rates. Irena Sendler, at great personal danger, devised means to get into the ghetto and help the dying Jews. She managed to obtain a permit from the municipality that enabled her to enter the ghetto to inspect the sanitary conditions. Once inside the ghetto, she established contact with activists of the Jewish welfare organization and began to help them. She helped smuggle Jews out of the ghetto to the Aryan side and helped set up hiding places for them.

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Memorial Day: 75 years after the Holocaust

As part of the English Language and Memory Events course, students in B Agronomy, B Health, B Economics, B Engineering and C1 had the opportunity to take a virtual tour of Auschwitz through YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZCNHMmUytc&t=192s

Translated into Greek the song about the anonymous child lost in the air of Auschwitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzICYOFko3w

and finally made butterflies in memory of the victims to decorate the Holocaust wall.
NEVER AGAIN ..

#memorialday #holocaust #epalnafpaktou #respect

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Don Arrigo Beccari, who saved Jewish children in Villa Emma, near Modena.

Don Arrigo Beccari: anti-fascist, sentenced to death and saved. The life of a priest who transformed a small parish church in the Modena countryside into a pivot of the Resistance, saving dozens of Jews from deportation. Tortured, imprisoned and sentenced to death, he was saved from the sacrifice of three religious. Then he returned to his country community, in Rubbiara, where he created a professional start-up school to give a future to war orphans and farmers' children. Far from praise and ceremonies, he is among the Righteous of Nations at Yad Vashem. Always in simplicity and among its people, until the end.

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Historical and political situations have determined the destinies of the Romanian Jews in different ways, depending on the regions in which they were living, and proximity to the front being the most important variable. The total number of deaths is not certain, but even the lowest respectable estimates run to about 250,000 Jews (plus 25,000 deported Romani, of which approximately 11,000 perished).

According to the Wiesel Commission report report released by the Romanian government in 2004, between 280,000 and 380,000 Jews were murdered or died in various forms on Romanian soil, in the war zones of Basarabia, Bucovina and and in the occupied Soviet territories under Romanian's control (Transnistria Governorate)

At least 15,000 Jews from the Regat were murdered in the Iași pogrom and as a result of other anti-Jewish measures. Half of the estimated 270,000 to 320,000 Jews living in Basarabia, Bucovina, and the former Dorohoi County in Romania were murdered or died between June 1941 and November 1943. Between 45,000 and 60,000 Jews were killed in Bessarabia and Bukovina by Romanian and German troops in 1941. Between 104,522 and 120,810 deported Romanian Jews died as a result of the expulsions to Transnistria. After a wave of random initial killings, Jews in Moldavia were subject to pogroms while those in Bessarabia, Bukovina and Dorohoi were concentrated into ghettos, from which they were deported to concentration camps in the Transnistria Governorate, including camps built and run by Romanians.

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Were those "big" men afraid of those little kids? Nothing can be the reason of this holocaust.

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World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total of 70–85 million deaths were caused by the conflict, representing about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940.[1] Deaths directly caused by the war (including military and civilian fatalities) are estimated at 50–56 million, with an additional estimated 19–28 million deaths from war-related disease and famine. Civilian deaths totaled 50–55 million. Military deaths from all causes totaled 21–25 million, including deaths in captivity of about 5 million prisoners of war. More than half of the total number of casualties are accounted for by the dead of the Republic of China and of the Soviet Union. The following tables give a detailed country-by-country count of human losses.

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Ukraine suffered a lot from fascists and had great losses in the II World War. Only in Trranscarpathia, the region where we live, more than 100000 Jewish who lived here, were deported and then killed ...

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Righteous Among the Nations ( Hebrew: חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, ḥasidei ummot ha`olam "righteous (plural) of the world's nations") is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis for altruistic reasons. The term originates with the concept of " righteous gentiles", a term used in rabbinic Judaism to refer to non-Jews, called , who abide by the Seven Laws of Noah.

When Yad Vashem, the Shoah Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, was established in 1953 by the Knesset, one of its tasks was to commemorate the "Righteous Among the Nations". The Righteous were defined as non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.

Since 1963, a commission headed by a justice of the Supreme Court of Israel has been charged with the duty of awarding the honorary title "Righteous Among the Nations". Guided in its work by certain criteria, the commission meticulously studies all documentation including evidence by survivors and other eyewitnesses, evaluates the historical circumstances and the element of risk to the rescuer, and then decides if the case meets the criteria. Those criteria are:

Only a Jewish party can put a nomination forward

Helping a family member, or helping a Jew who converted to Christianity is not a criterion for recognition;

Assistance has to be repeated or substantial

Assistance has to be given without any financial gain expected in return (although covering expenses such as food is acceptable)

The award has been given without regard to the social rank of the helper. It has been given to royalty such as Princess Alice of Battenberg, Queen Mother Helen of Romania and Queen Elisabeth of Belgium but also to others like the philosopher Jacques Ellul and to Amsterdam department store employee Hendrika Gerritsen.

A person who is recognized as Righteous for having taken risks to help Jews during the Holocaust is awarded a medal in their name, a certificate of honor, and the privilege of having the name added to those on the Wall of Honor in the Garden of the Righteous at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem (the last is in lieu of a tree planting, which was discontinued for lack of space). The awards are distributed to the rescuers or their next-of-kin during ceremonies in Israel, or in their countries of residence through the offices of Israel's diplomatic representatives. These ceremonies are attended by local government representatives and are given wide media coverage.

The Yad Vashem Law authorizes Yad Vashem "to confer honorary citizenship upon the Righteous Among the Nations, and if they have died, the commemorative citizenship of the State of Israel, in recognition of their actions". Anyone who has been recognized as "Righteous" is entitled to apply to Yad Vashem for the certificate. If the person is no longer alive, their next of kin is entitled to request that commemorative citizenship be conferred on the Righteous who has died.

In total, 27,362 (as of 1 January 2018) men and women from 51 countries have been recognized, amounting to more than 10,000 authenticated rescue stories. Yad Vashem's policy is to pursue the program for as long as petitions for this title are received and are supported by evidence that meets the criteria.

Recipients who choose to live in the State of Israel are entitled to a pension equal to the average national wage and free health care, as well as assistance with housing and nursing care.

At least 130 Righteous non-Jews have settled in Israel. They were welcomed by Israeli authorities, and were granted citizenship. In the mid-1980s, they became entitled to special pensions. Some of them settled in British Mandatory Palestine before Israel's establishment shortly after World War II, or in the early years of the new state of Israel, while others came later. Those who came earlier often spoke fluent Hebrew and have integrated into Israeli society.

The Righteous are honored with a feast day on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church in the United States on 16 July.

One Righteous Among the Nations, Saint Elizabeth Hesselblad of Sweden, has been canonized a saint in the Catholic Church. Five others have been beatified: Blessed Giuseppe Girotti, O.P., and Odoardo Focherini of Italy, Blessed Klymentiy Sheptytsky, M.S.U., of Austria-Hungary, Blessed Bernhard Lichtenberg of Germany, and Blessed Sára Salkaházi of Hungary.

In 2015, Lithuania's first street sign honoring a Righteous Among the Nations was unveiled in Vilnius. The street is named Simaites Street, after Ona Šimaitė, a Vilnius University librarian who helped and rescued Jewish people in the Vilna Ghetto.

As of 16 June 2017, the award has been made to 26,513 people.

Rank

Country

Number of awards

26

Denmark, United Kingdom

22

29

North Macedonia, Sweden

10

34

Estonia, Turkey, Portugal

3

37

Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, Peru, Republic of China

2

42

Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Georgia, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Vietnam

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The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage, Mark Klempner, ISBN 0-8298-1699-2, The Pilgrim Press.

Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust: Genocide and Moral Obligation, David P. Gushee, ISBN 1-55778-821-9, Paragon House Publishers.

The Lexicon of the Righteous Among the Nations, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. (volumes: Poland, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Europe I, Europe II).

The Seven Laws of Noah, Lichtenstein, Aaron, New York: The Rabbi Jacob Joseph School Press, 1981, ASIN B00071QH6S.

The Path of the Righteous: Gentile Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust, Paldiel, Mordecai, ISBN 0-88125-376-6, KTAV Publishing House, Inc.

When Courage Was Stronger Than Fear: Remarkable Stories of Christians Who Saved Jews from the Holocaust by Peter Hellman. 2nd edition, ISBN 1-56924-663-7, Marlowe & Companym, 1999.

Rescue and Flight: American Relief Workers Who Defied the Nazis, Subak, Susan Elisabeth, University of Nebraska Press, 342 pp., 2010.

Ugo G. Pacifici Noja e Silvia Pacifici Noja, Il cacciatore di giusti: storie di non ebrei che salvarono i figli di Israele dalla Shoah, Cantalupa Torinese, Effatà, 2010, (in Italian), ISBN 978-88-7402-568-8.

Paul Greveillac, Les fronts clandestins : quinze histoires de Justes (in French), Nicolas Eybalin publishing, 2014 (ISBN 978-2-36665-000-6).

The Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem. Its online exhibitions include:

"Polish Righteous - Recalling Forgotten History" (Website portal for the multimedia-based project and its research documentation and presentations). sprawiedliwi.org.pl. Warsaw, Poland: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. 2016.

Heroes and Heroines of the Holocaust at the Holocaust Survivors' Network

Klempner, Mark (2017). "Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage" (Website portal of resources for the book and lectures of the same name, with PDF and audio excerpts). hearthasreasons.com. The site includes extensive lists of articles, books and film/video/DVDs about Holocaust rescuers and related heroes, plus a reading group guide and book excerpts such as:

Photo gallery on righteous gentiles during the Holocaust at the Simon Wiesenthal Center

Rescuers at the Jewish Virtual Library

Karoly Szabo - Wallenberg, 1947, 1965: Holocaust Memorial Budapest, testimony from the Jakobovics family

The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous at JFR.org

Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State at the American public television broadcaster PBS

zyciezazycie.pl, a site commemorating Poles who gave their lives to save Jews

Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide Committee

"AJPN - anonymes, Justes et persécutés durant la période nazie dans les communes de France (The Anonymous, Just and Percecuted during the Nazi period in the communes of France)". www.ajpn.org (in French). Bordeaux, France: AJPN. 2008-2016.

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Righteous Among the Nations ( Hebrew: חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, ḥasidei ummot ha`olam "righteous (plural) of the world's nations") is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis for altruistic reasons.

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The Raid Victims Memorial

The Raid Victims Memorial was built in remembrance of the ’January Raid’ carried out from January 21st to January 23rd 1942 in Novi Sad. During these three days Hungarian fascists executed over a thousand people – Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. In 1971 at this place by the Danube river a 4 m tall bronze monument called ’The Family’ was put up. The author of the monument is a famous sculptor Jovan Soldatović. In 1992 the same author created 78 bronze plates which were added to the memorial. Four of the plates tell the story of this tragical event in Serbian and Hebrew, and the other 66 plates hold the names of the victims. The memorial is designated as cultural heritage site of great importance.

In my opinion, this article is very interesting and very realistic in some respects. I also like the topic he mentions and the information he gives us.

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Schindler's List is a 1993 American historical period drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the novel Schindler's Ark by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally. The film follows Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten German businessman, who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.

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https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/to-truly-honour-the-victims-of-the-holocaust-let-s-fight-hate-every-day

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Among the Italian heroes is Liliana Segre, survivor of the deportation, she tells the students about the horrors of what she experienced.

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La testimonianza agli studenti di Liliana Segre

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On January 27, my students will comment on this film and reflect on the Holocaust atrocities.

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Yes, we know it and we learned from the books what you are in this camp. we share your pain. and we remember them with respect.

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Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany

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Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany

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Buchenwald was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937.

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Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany

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Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany

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Buchenwald was a Nazi concentration camp established on Ettersberg hill near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937. It was one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps within Germany's 1937 borders.
The clock is set eternally to 3:15 PM, which is the time that the camp was liberated by the Third Army.on April 11, 1945

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Georgia
Khatuna Khachapuridze
During the Holocaust, about one and a half million children died, of which approximately 1.2 million were Jewish children.

Many of the children became refugees during the war and the persecution. It is not possible to establish the exact number of deaths, since people were destroyed by entire families, and numbers in concentration camps were given only to those who could be used as labor. The deaths of children and youth has become one of the most tragic pages in the history of the Holocaust. Numerous testimonies, memoirs, diaries and studies show that from the first days of the anti-Semitic policy of the Nazis, the younger generation, especially representatives of the Jewish people, was purposefully persecuted and destroyed.

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Kujtojmë për të mos harruar, për promovimin e tolerancēs, bashkëjetesës dhe përkujtimit të Holokaustit, kujtojmē qē të mos pērsëritet më kurrë!
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Në fillim ata erdhën për Çifutët
dhe unē nuk fola
sepse nuk isha çifut.
Pastaj ata erdhën për komunistët
dhe unë nuk fola
sepse nuk isha komunist.

Pastaj ata erdhën për sindikalistët
përsëri nuk fola
sepse nuk isha sindikalist.

Pastaj ata erdhën për mua
por asnjë nuk kishte mbetur
të fliste për mua.

Pastor Neimoelleri, Gjermani 1930.

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Valbona, Rreshen High School in Albania

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The U.S. did not accept the Sephardic Jews while accepting the Ashkenazi Jews. But Turkey has maintained these Jews. Sephardic Jews did not accept the United States, but has accepted Turkey. Even scientists were assigned to Turkish universities. Even that was given to them so they connect to the prime minister of Turkey even worth 5 times more salary.

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The U.S. did not accept the Sephardic Jews while accepting the Ashkenazi Jews. But Turkey has maintained these Jews. Sephardic Jews did not accept the United States, but has accepted Turkey. Even scientists were assigned to Turkish universities. Even that was given to them so they connect to the prime minister of Turkey even worth 5 times more salary.

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The World Cycling Champion Gino Bartali hero....

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The World Cycling Champion Gino Bartali hero....

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-27333310

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75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF GERMAN NAZI CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ

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75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIBERATION OF GERMAN NAZI CONCENTRATION AND EXTERMINATION CAMP AUSCHWITZ

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The year 2020 will be special due to two anniversaries related to the memory: The 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Stockholm Declaration, under which the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research was established, today the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance; and the 15th anniversary of the adoption of 27 January as the International Holocaust Remembrance Day by the United Nations General Assembly. Both events symbolically took place on 27 January, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

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World leaders set to visit Holocaust memorial on 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

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Rabbi Sacks on Holocaust Memorial Day & the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz

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The Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations 

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The Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations 

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The Garden of the Righteous Among the Nations is located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem. It was created to honor those non-Jews who during the Holocaust risked their lives to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.

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Oleksandra Shulezhko, a nurse from Cherkassy, Ukraine, during the Nazis occupation, rescued 102 children from starvation and death, 25 of them were Jewish children.

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Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance

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Жіночі історії Другої світової. Олександра Шулежко

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Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat whose country was a neutral power in the war. He was sent to Budapest, Hungary, on 9 July 1944, with 650 protective passports for Jews who had some connection with Sweden. By this time knowledge of the death camps was widespread and Wallenberg decided to save as many people from deportation as possible.

Between July and December 1944, he saved the lives of many tens of thousands of Jews by issuing them with Swedish passports and putting them under the protection of the Swedish government.

When the ruling Hungarian Arrow Cross party planned the deportation of the remaining Jews of Budapest, Wallenberg and his colleagues protested successfully.

However, the Nazis began sending the Jews on a ‘death march’ to the Austrian border and this Wallenberg could not stop. Nevertheless, what he and his colleagues did do was to follow the marchers and give out food, clothing and medical supplies.

When the Soviet army entered the city of Budapest, Wallenberg knew he was in danger from the Communists. They might think he was a spy. On 17 January 1945, he was taken away by the Soviets and disappeared, never to be seen again.

On 26 November 1963, Wallenberg was recognised by Yad Vashem as one of the ‘Righteous Among the Nations’

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Jane Haining, who was born in 1897, was a Scottish Christian woman.

Haining was appointed as matron of the Girls’ Home of the Scottish Mission in Budapest, Hungary, in 1932. She cared for around 400 children from aged six to 16 years. Most of the girls were Jewish.

In 1940, as the situation within Hungary became dangerous, the Scottish missionaries were ordered to leave. Haining refused to leave and give up the children.

In March 1944 the German army occupied Hungary and began deporting Jews. On 25 April 1944, two Gestapo men appeared at the mission where Jane Haining worked. They searched her office before giving her just 15 minutes to gather her belongings. She was taken for interrogation.

Haining was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She wrote postcards to her friends. Her last message asked for food. She ended her letter with the words: “There is not much to report here on the way to heaven.”

Haining died of starvation in July 1944. She was just 47 years old.

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Frank Foley was a World War One veteran who was recruited into the British Secret Intelligence Service. He became a successful spy and was stationed in Berlin from 1922 to 1939.

Foley used his cover position as a passport officer at the British embassy to save thousands of Jews. Although he did not have diplomatic immunity, he entered concentration camps and issued visas to Jews so that they would be free to travel out of Germany. On more than one occasion Foley entered Sachsenhausen concentration camp to issue visas and travel documents.

By November 1938, Foley and his wife were sheltering Jews in their Berlin apartment. One of these people was Leo Baeck, chairman of the Association of German Rabbis. Before returning to England at the outbreak of war, Foley left a pile of visas and instructions for their distribution to Jews who were fleeing Germany.

Foley risked his own life to save the lives of others. Had he been caught he would have suffered at the hands of the Nazis. Foley’s actions enabled over 10,000 people to escape the Nazi terror.

Frank Foley was recognised as Righteous Amongst the Nations on 25 February 1999.

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27 January is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The atrocity of war left little chance to survive, but in spite of this, there were courageous men and women, ordinary people of different nationalities, who took great risks to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Let’s share amazing stories to remember the Righteous Among the Nations. Let’s show the students the lesson of the Holocaust is not only one of sadness, but also a lesson in courage, honor, compassion, and heroism

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Dear eTwinning participants! Thank you for your support. V.Gatalska

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This poem is for everyone to read and remember. It is written by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller, who miraculously survived after 7 years in Dachau.

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This poem is for everyone to read and remember. It is written by German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller, who miraculously survived after 7 years in Dachau.

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First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

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The Monument to Children, killed in Babi Yar during the Second World War, Kyiv, Ukraine

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The Monument to Children, killed in Babi Yar during the Second World War, Kyiv, Ukraine

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27 January is a time for everyone to pause to remember the millions of people who have been murdered or whose lives have been changed beyond recognition during the genocides.

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The UN resolution declared that the United Nations would designate 27 January -- the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp -- as an annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, and urged Member States to develop educational programmes to instill the memory of the tragedy in future generations to prevent genocide from occurring again

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The UN resolution declared that the United Nations would designate 27 January -- the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp -- as an annual International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, and urged Member States to develop educational programmes to instill the memory of the tragedy in future generations to prevent genocide from occurring again

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was the genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany systematically murdered some six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe. A broader definition still includes ethnic Poles, other Slavic groups, Soviet citizens and prisoners of war, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, black people, and political opponents.

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January 27, in 1945, marks the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland by the Soviet Army. By the time the Soviets arrived, most of the camp's prisoners had already been sent out on a death march. Around 7,000 prisoners were still alive when the concentration camp was liberated. In the five years it was opened, roughly 1.1m people were killed at Auschwitz. Around 90 per cent of them were Jewish, while the other victims were generally Romany, Polish and Soviet people. One in six of the Jews killed during the war died at Auschwitz, in what the Nazis called Hitler's Final Solution.

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They called it ‘Himmelfahrtstrasse’ or ‘Road to Heaven’. It was the path on which 250,000 Jewish victims were sent to the gas chambers at the former Nazi death camp Sobibor, in eastern Poland during World War II.

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It is a ravine in Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by German forces during World War II. The first massacre took place 29–30 September 1941, killing 33,771 Jews. In the months that followed, thousands more were seized and taken to Babi Yar where they were shot. It is estimated that more than 100,000 residents of Kiev of all ethnic groups, mostly civilians, were murdered by the Nazis there during World War II. A concentration camp was also built in the area.

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During WWII it was called  ‘Himmelfahrtstrasse’ or ‘Road to Heaven’ which led to the concentration camp in Sobibor. This is the map of major deportation routes to concentration camps around Europe. There were 42,000 different kinds of camps which claimed the lives of 20 mln people of different nationalities from different countries.

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It was a German concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. The official estimate was about 80,000 victims, of those 60,000 Jews.

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The author of this book is an American journalist. The book was first published in 1982. It is about the mass escape in October 1943 of hundreds of Jewish prisoners from the extermination camp at Sobibor. The book was adapted as a 1987 TV movie by the same name.

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The author of this book is an American journalist. The book was first published in 1982. It is about the mass escape in October 1943 of hundreds of Jewish prisoners from the extermination camp at Sobibor. The book was adapted as a 1987 TV movie by the same name.

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Some 9000 Spaniards were interned in Nacis concentration camps. Of these, about two thousand managed to survive. Very few returned to Spain.

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Some 9000 Spaniards were interned in Nacis concentration camps. Of these, about two thousand managed to survive. Very few returned to Spain.

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Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British television film which aired on CBS. 

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Escape from Sobibor is a 1987 British television film which aired on CBS. 

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It is the story of the mass escape from the extermination camp at Sobibor, the most successful uprising by Jewish prisoners of German extermination camps The film was directed by Jack Gold.

The uprising was launched on October 14, 1943. In the fighting, 11 SS men and a number of guards were killed. Three hundred Jews escaped, but dozens were killed in the mine field around the camp and dozens more were hunted down over subsequent days. Following the revolt, the camp was liquidated in October 1943 and the site demolished and disguised as a farm.  The Nazi's also planted hundred of trees over the area. The number of survivors of Sobibor is still unknown and varies in different sources. Yad Vashem says about 50 of the Jews who escaped during the uprising survived. Another source cited by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum says the number was 47. As of March 2014, four remained alive.

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Alexander ('Sasha') Pechersky (22 February 1909 – 19 January 1990) was one of the organizers, and the leader, of the most successful uprising and mass-escape of Jews from a Nazi extermination camp during World War II; which occurred at the Sobibor extermination camp on 14 October 1943.

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Alexander ('Sasha') Pechersky (22 February 1909 – 19 January 1990) was one of the organizers, and the leader, of the most successful uprising and mass-escape of Jews from a Nazi extermination camp during World War II; which occurred at the Sobibor extermination camp on 14 October 1943.

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Leon Feldhendler, (1910 – 6 April 1945), was a Polish Jewish resistance fighter known for his role in organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp together with Alexander Pechersky.

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Leon Feldhendler, (1910 – 6 April 1945), was a Polish Jewish resistance fighter known for his role in organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp together with Alexander Pechersky.

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See all the wonderful things Valentyna Gatalska has made

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The Road to Heaven
In Mariupol (Ukraine) on October 15, 1941, all Jews were ordered to gather with things for export to Palestine. After holding the Jews in the barracks for several days, the Germans drove small groups of people to the village of Agrobaza, where they were shot on October 17-20. Only a few managed to survive. The exact number of executed Mariupol Jews is unknown until now. The figures were from 8 to 12 thousand.

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Being a student at the University, together with a group of peers, I visited Salaspils. 22 years passed but I still remember our feelings of despair, sorrow, sympathy with the victims of the concentration camp. There is a big field with nothing but stone figures depicting the prisoners. And you feel some terrible emptiness inside you as if you died together with thousands of its victims. We have to struggle for peace! People of all nationalities must live on the Earth!!!

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Being a student at the University, together with a group of peers, I visited Salaspils. 22 years passed but I still remember our feelings of despair, sorrow, sympathy with the victims of the concentration camp. There is a big field with nothing but stone figures depicting the prisoners. And you feel some terrible emptiness inside you as if you died together with thousands of its victims. We have to struggle for peace! People of all nationalities must live on the Earth!!!

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Памяти Холокоста.....mpg

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The Raid Victims Memorial

The Raid Victims Memorial was built in remembrance of the ’January Raid’ carried out from January 21st to January 23rd 1942 in Novi Sad. During these three days Hungarian fascists executed over a thousand people – Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. In 1971 at this place by the Danube river a 4 m tall bronze monument called ’The Family’ was put up. The author of the monument is a famous sculptor Jovan Soldatović. In 1992 the same author created 78 bronze plates which were added to the memorial. Four of the plates tell the story of this tragical event in Serbian and Hebrew, and the other 66 plates hold the names of the victims. The memorial is designated as cultural heritage site of great importance.

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Monte Sole's Memorial Itinerary, Marzabotto, Bologna, Italy

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Monte Sole's Memorial Itinerary, Marzabotto, Bologna, Italy

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Tragic events took place in this area between September 29 and October 5, 1944, where hundreds of innocent people were slain by Nazi soldiers. 770 harmless people, mostly women and children, were massacred, believed to have helped the partisans in this area.

https://veer.tv/videos/360-monte-sole-s-memorial-itinerary-route-cai-n-100-marzabotto-bologna-italy-58517

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On October 16, 1943 the Nazi captured 1,259 members of the Jewish community in Rome. Of these, 1,023 were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Only 15 men and one woman survived.

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The district Quadraro, a south-eastern suburb in Rome,was well known for its numerous partisans and opponents of the regime. On 17 April 1944, under the code name Walfisch (Operation Whale), the Nazis rounded up more than 700 men from Quadraro and deported them to concentration camps in Germany and Poland.

For Rome, in terms of size, the Quadraro operation was second only to the raid at the Ghetto district on 16 October 194.

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On October 18, 1943 at sunrise, the Nazi arrived in the Ghetto (Rome, Italy), and   deported  1, 259 people: 1,035 Jews; 689 women, 363 men, 207 children.
Only 16 came back, most of them died in Auschwitz.
I went there 3 years ago with my students.

w.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/italy/2015/10/15/ghetto-of-rome-auschwitz-survivor-on-october-16-1943_f7db707e-4f05-4efc-9cae-cc1eb451993c.html

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On 24 March 1944 Nazists killed 335 people they had taken as prisoners  as a reprisal for a partisan attack conducted on the previous day in central Rome against an SS Police Regiment.  People were transported to the Ardeatine caves in truckloads and then, in groups of five, put to death inside the caves. The bodies of the victims were placed in piles, typically about a metre in height, and then buried under tons of rock debris when German military engineers set explosives to seal the caves and hide the atrocity. They remained summarily buried and abandoned for over a year inside the caves. 75 of the 335 victims selected for death in the caves were Jewish, the others weren't. Among all of them there were rich, poor, doctors and lawyers, priests, workers and shopkeepers, artists and artisans, teachers and students, men and teenaged boys, partisans.
The following picture focuses on the project "Memorie d'inciampo"\Stolpersteine : brass stones placed all over the town with the names of the people killed by the Nazists in Rome or in the extermination camps during the Occupation of Rome from 8 September 1943 to 4 June 1944

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The Jasenovac concentration camp was an extermination camp established by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The camp was established by the governing Ustaše regime and not operated by Nazi Germany. It was one of the largest concentration camps in Europeand the camp has been referred to as "the Auschwitz of the Balkans". It was established in August 1941. and was dismantled in April 1945. It was "notorious for its barbaric practices and the large number of victims". In Jasenovac the majority of victims were ethnic Serbs, Jews and Roma.

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In Fossoli (Emilia-Romagna) the field built to imprison the enemy military is still visible. In December 1943 it was transformed by the Italian Social Republic into a concentration camp for Jews. From March 1944 it became a police and transit camp (Polizei und Durchgangslager), used by the SS. The approximately 5,000 political and racial internees held in Fossoli were destined for Auschwitz-Birkenau, Mauthausen, Dachau, Buchenwald, Flossenburg and Ravensbrück.
Fossoli was the national field of racial and political deportation from Italy.

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The Sant'Anna di Stazzema massacre was a Nazi German war crime committed in the hill village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in Tuscany, Italy, in the course of an operation against the Italian resistance movement during the Italian Campaign of World War II. On 12 August 1944 the Waffen-SS, with the help of the Brigate Nere, fascist fighters, murdered about 560 local villagers and refugees, including 130 children, and burned their bodies. These crimes have been defined as voluntary and organized acts of terrorism by the Military Tribunal of La Spezia and the highest Italian court of appeal.

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Crete/ Greece                                                                                                  On the 29 May of 1944, the 275 Jews who lived in Chania at that time, were rounded up from their houses and imprisoned by Germans. Almost the entire Jewish community of Crete (almost 400 people) would leave the island in the hold of a German commercial vessel, the “Tanais” under the leadership of 74-year old Rabbi Elia Osamo.                      They were assembled by the German Nazis in order to be sent to the death camp of  Auschwitz.                                                         After several days in prison, they were placed on the ship "Tanais" (means:Russian river) at Heraklion port, together with Greek hostages and Italian prisoners of war with destination to the port of Piraeus, Athens.The ship was eventually  torpedoed by the British a hundred miles off the coast of Santorini. Tanais was sunk at sea on June 9 1944, and none of those on board survived. It was initially believed that the Germans had deliberately sunk the ship, but it is now known that the ship, which had brought supplies to the German troops on Crete, was damaged on its way to the mainland by a torpedo fired by the British submarine "Vivid."

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It seems that many people and especially German  want to change the History and forget that the Nazi German started Second World War, that the Nazi German built Death Camps, and the Nazi German tortured and murdered ...

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The boy in striped pijamas

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The boy in the striped pyjamas movie trailer (υποτιτλισμένο στα ελληνικά)

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Porcelain Unicorn

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Anna's Frank Life

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Ελένη Ανδρουλάκη

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Η ζωή της Άννας Φρανκ, βασισμένο σε βιογραφικό κόμικ

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A poem, by Georgios Ioannou

ΤΑ ΗΛΙΟΤΡΟΠΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΕΒΡΑΙΩΝ
Τhe sunflowers of the Jews.

Κάθε φορά που τρίζει η σκάλα μας,

«λες να ΄ναι αυτοί επιτέλους;» σκέφτομαι,

κι ύστερα φεύγω και με τις ώρες

κατακίτρινα ζωγραφίζω ηλιοτρόπια.

Όμως αύριο ώσπου να ξεχαστώ,

στην αίθουσα αναμονής το τρένο

απ΄ την Κρακόβια θα περιμένω.

Κι αργά τη νύχτα, όταν ίσως κατεβούν

ωχροί, σφίγγοντας τα δόντια

«αργήσατε τόσο να μου γράψετε»

θα κάνω δήθεν αδιάφορα.

Γιώργος Ιωάννου

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Ioannina, 25-03-1944 - Molos

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When Italy capitulated with the Allies, the Germans occupied the island of Corfu on 27.9.1943. After a period of seeming rest, an order was published on 8 June 1944 calling on all Jews to remain in their homes.

Nearly 200 Jews were able to escape, while the dawns of the following day the Germans arrested all the Jews whom they sent to Auschwitz via Athens. The Nazis and the mob raped their homes and their shops. Of the 1900 Corfiots, some 180 hostages survived the Holocaust. In 1946 the Community numbered 140 members. Today, the Community with 65 members continues its course in the Greek space.

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Sophie Scholl was beheaded at 21 for standing up to the Nazis   -- Sophie Scholl è stata decapitata a 21 anni per essersi opposta ai nazisti

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Sophie Scholl was beheaded at 21 for standing up to the Nazis   -- Sophie Scholl è stata decapitata a 21 anni per essersi opposta ai nazisti

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Sophie Scholl was beheaded at 21 for standing up to the Nazis

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In our school (south of Munich, Bavaria) the year 9 students make a trip to the concentration camp near Dachau. This year I asked them to write a report about their visit. Here is one of them:

On Wednesday, January 23rd, we were in the concentration camp in Dachau. When we got there, the group was split up and we had a 2.5 hour guided tour.

First we were given some general information about this memorial. This concentration camp, also known as a labour camp, existed from March 22nd 1933 until its liberation by US army soldiers on April 29th 1945. Mostly men were brought to this camp, and out of the 200,000 prisoners only 8,000 were women. In these 12 years when this camp was in operation, 41,500 people died, most were willingly tortured and killed.

In general, concentration camps were used to keep people who were Jews, were disabled or were political opponents of the National Socialism. Heinrich 🤬, in 1933 "Reichsführer SS" and Munich's police chief, had the concentration camp built east of the city of Dachau, on a site of a former multifunctional factory. The huge area was surrounded by a wall and the inmates were completely cut off from the outside world.

Everyone who found for example a newspaper had to give it to the soldiers immediately or was severely punished if he was caught. There was for example a man who had made an attack on Hitler. He had hidden a couple of bombs every day during his work, which he had put into Hitler’s lectern at night.

In the end, the concentration camp was so crowded that in the barracks where there was only room for 52 people, 200 people had to live. At last there were 35 barracks.

We were in the barracks that is the place where the prisoners slept. One of the barracks was very narrow and maybe three people had to sleep in those "beds". When we were there it was very cold and it was windy, we could feel that it was not nice for prisoners to live there for more than one year.

Our guide showed us the room where many people were killed by using gas. I did not try to put myself into that situation because it was too horrible.

It was very interesting to know what the soldiers did with the people in that camp, but it was horrible to think about it.

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The White Rose (in German: Die Weiße Rose) was a group of students who were non-violently opposed to the regime of 🤬 Germany. The White Rose was active from June 1942 to February 1943, when the main members of the association were arrested, tried and sentenced to death by beheading.                           La Rosa Bianca (in lingua tedesca: Die Weiße Rose) è stato un gruppo di studenti che si sono opposti in modo nonviolento al regime della Germania nazista. La Rosa Bianca fu attiva dal giugno 1942 al febbraio 1943, quando i principali componenti del sodalizio vennero arrestati, processati e condannati a morte mediante decapitazione.

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The White Rose (in German: Die Weiße Rose) was a group of students who were non-violently opposed to the regime of 🤬 Germany. The White Rose was active from June 1942 to February 1943, when the main members of the association were arrested, tried and sentenced to death by beheading.                           La Rosa Bianca (in lingua tedesca: Die Weiße Rose) è stato un gruppo di studenti che si sono opposti in modo nonviolento al regime della Germania nazista. La Rosa Bianca fu attiva dal giugno 1942 al febbraio 1943, quando i principali componenti del sodalizio vennero arrestati, processati e condannati a morte mediante decapitazione.

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2CELLOS - Theme from Schindler's List [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

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Polish Nation still ha to call for TRUE: Second War was started by German they bombarded innocent little town in Poland Wieluń and Death Camp were establish also by German people. 🤬 means NOBODY!!! Wake up Europe!!! Do not copy "German" history who wants be seen as victims not invaders... 

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Polish Nation still ha to call for TRUE: Second War was started by German they bombarded innocent little town in Poland Wieluń and Death Camp were establish also by German people. 🤬 means NOBODY!!! Wake up Europe!!! Do not copy "German" history who wants be seen as victims not invaders... 

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🤬, racism, nationalism can affect any nation. Holocaust should not be repeated!

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Saint Grigol Peradze (Georgian: გრიგოლ ფერაძე) (St. Priest Martyr Grigol), (September 13, 1899 – December 6, 1942) was a famous Georgian ecclesiastic figure, theologian, historian, Archimandrite, PhD of History, Professor.
The invasion of Poland by German troops in 1939 made Peradze's position precarious. For him being in solidarity with Jews in peril went without saying; and he helped wherever he could. Nor did he hesitate to visit the imprisoned Polish Metropolitan Dionysios. These activities were viewed with growing suspicion by the 🤬 occupiers and Peradze's fruitful ecclesiastic and scientific activities were brought to an end in 1942 when, on May 4, he was arrested by the German Gestapo. On December 6, 1942, Grigol Peradze was killed in the 🤬 concentration camp of Auschwitz (Oświęcim) when he took the blame for the 🤬 of a German officer to spare his fellow prisoners, or, according to another report, when he entered a gas-chamber in the place of a Jewish prisoner who had a large family.

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Saint Grigol Peradze ( Georgian: გრიგოლ ფერაძე) ( St. Priest Martyr Grigol), (September 13, 1899 - December 6, 1942) was a famous Georgian ecclesiastic figure, theologian, historian, Archimandrite, PhD of History, Professor.

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Georgia. Rustavi. The public school N12.  

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Georgia. Rustavi. The public school N12.  

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Priest martyr Grigol Peradze....

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Priest martyr Grigol Peradze - წმ. მღვდელმოწამე გრიგოლ ფერაძე

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Westerbork transit camp in Drenthe, Netherlands

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Westerbork transit camp in Drenthe, Netherlands

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Camp Westerbork was a transit camp in Drenthe province, northeastern Netherlands, during World War II. Established by the Dutch government in the summer of 1939, Camp Westerbork was meant to serve as a refugee camp for Jews who had illegally entered the Netherlands.

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The true story of two Jewish girls in a beautiful Italian film

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The 102.000 stones monument at Westerbork transit camp, Drenthe, Netherlands

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The 102.000 stones monument at Westerbork transit camp, Drenthe, Netherlands

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Each individual stone represents a single person that stayed at Westerbork and died in a 🤬 concentration camp.

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Monument of the Holocaust in Warsaw, Poland

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Monument of the Holocaust in Warsaw, Poland

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Lessons from the story: 10 films about the Holocaust, which definitely need to watch:
"Pianist"
"Life is Beautiful"
"Garden Finzi Contini"
"Schindler's list"
"The train of life"
"Jonah, who lived in the belly of the whale"
"A boy in striped pajamas"
Anna's Diary
"Europe, Europe"
"Judgment of God"

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"As the Portuguese consul-general in the French city of Bordeaux, he defied the orders of António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo regime, issuing visas and passports to an undetermined number of refugees fleeing 🤬 Germany, including Jews. For this, Sousa Mendes was punished by the Salazar regime with one year of inactivity with the right to one half of his rank's pay, being obliged subsequently to be retired. However he ended up never being forced to retire and he received a full consul salary until his death in 1954." (wikipedia)