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Commemorating the Holocaust reveals how and why the Holocaust came to play a prominent role in French and Italian political culture in the period after the end of the Cold War. By charting the development of official, national Holocaust commemorations in France and Italy, Rebecca Clifford explains why the wartime persecution of Jews, a topic ignored or marginalized in political discourse through much ...

"The United States and the Nazi Holocaust is an invaluable synthesis of United States policies and attitudes towards the Nazi persecution of European Jewry from 1933 right up to the modern day. The book, which includes 20 illustrations, weaves together a vast body of scholarly literature to bring students of the Holocaust a balanced, readable overview of this complex and often controversial topic. ...

Congress mandated the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to lead the nation in annual civic commemorations of the victims of the Holocaust, called Days of Remembrance. The Days of Remembrance give us all an oppotunity to advance the Museum's primary mission to inform Americans about this unprecedented tragedy, to commemorate those who suffered, and to inspire visitors to contemplate the moral ...

The Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by the Nazis as part of the secretive Operation Reinhardt -- with intent to carry out the mass murder of Polish Jewry. Following the construction of the extermination camp at Belzec in south-eastern Poland from November 1941 to March 1942, the Nazis planned a second extermination camp at Sobibor, and the third and deadliest camp was built ...

The first Jews arrived in Uruguay at the end of the 19th century from neighboring countries. From the twentieth century began to arrive from overseas pushed by the crisis of the Ottoman Empire and the persecution of the Tsarist Empire. Later the Jews came from Hungary, and finally from Germany with the assumption of Hitler to power in January 1933 in Germany. The degree of religiosity was an especially ...

Home Office: Government proposal for a Holocaust Remembrance Day 

Arthur Mainzer (1923-) was a cameraman in the 4th Combat Camera Unit of the 9th Air Force. The Combat Camera Unit was tasked with creating Air Force training films at Hal Roach Studios. After completing training at the Air Force Photo Technical School in Denver, CO and the First Motion Picture Unit in Culver, City, CA, Mainzer was deployed to Europe. He was filming bomb damage by the Allied Air Forces ...

This speech by the German Federal President, Roman, Herzog, was made to support his decision to designate 27 January as Holocaust Remembrance Day. The text of this version came from the German Embassy in London.

Fonds consists of documents related to the published book, "THERE I WAS... A collection of Reminiscences by members of the Ottawa Jewish Community who served in World War II." It also consists of Photographs taken by Elly Bollegraaf at various events from 2001-2012. Textual material consist of newspaper clipping (February 28, 2000); correspondence from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (May 9, 2000), ...

Consists of DVDs of the Federal Interagency Holocaust memorial programs from 1994-2010, marking the Days of Remembrance. The programs commemorate Holocaust experiences in various countries, including Italy, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Poland, and raise awareness of present-day genocides in Rwanda and Darfur. The programs include music and speeches by survivors and rescuers. Also includes advertising posters, ...

Speech written and delivered by Isaac Schweitzer [donor], 14 April 1996.

Andras Hamori donated his Holocaust Remembrance Day presentation to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in April 2022.

Copyright Holder: Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington

AV production shown at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Memorial Tribute to Harvey "Bud" Meyerhoff during the 2007 annual Days of Remembrance ceremonies.

Video clips compiled for screening at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance activities in April 2010 commemorating the role of liberators. The videos were displayed in the classrooms on the concourse level of the Museum during the Collections Open House activities. Contents include: Russell Collection - Postwar destruction of Germany and liberation of Dachau in b/w (USHMM ...