American soldiers were unprepared for what they discovered in the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany in April 1945: piles ...

Leo Ullman survived the Holocaust in hiding with strangers as a toddler—in Amsterdam, the same city where Anne Frank hid and was later discovered. His parents ...

I was screaming and crying … I didn’t want to go,” remembers Holocaust survivor Josie Traum about the day strangers came to ...

The symposium inspires service academy cadets and midshipmen to draw upon lessons of the past to develop innovative means of preventing mass atrocities in the future. As future military officers ...

My father and I left the SS Washington, the ship we traveled on from Le Havre, France, to New York City to start our new life in the New World. We said goodbye to Lady Liberty and proceeded off the ...

After I survived the Holocaust in Poland, my mother, father, sister, and I moved to England, where we were generously accepted as we tried to move past the terrible years of World War II. We were ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Council was established by Congress in 1980 to lead the nation in commemorating the Holocaust and to raise private funds for and build the United States Holocaust ...

My best remembered early days were unfortunately my years in Nazi Germany. When I was born, some years before Hitler came to power, my family was quite comfortable. They had a successful business, a ...

Non, rien de rien, Non, je ne regrette rien. (No, nothing at all, No, I do not regret anything.) —Édith Piaf There have been many moments in my adult life when I have had to make a decision. Sometimes ...

Holocaust survivor Joël Nommick was born into danger in December 1942 in the midst of World War II. Just months earlier, Joël’s father had been arrested and taken away from the family. Authorities ...

MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dora-Mittelbau -- LIBERATION -- V-2 Rocket Factory ... CONCENTRATION CAMPS; DORA-MITTELBAU; ROCKETS (V1-V2) Photo Archives 502. View of a V-2 missile manufactured ...