Holocaust
Holocaust Articles
More than any other ethnic minority, Jews have faced intense persecution that caused them to scatter around the world in search of safety. In the modern Jewish diaspora most Jewish people have found...
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Nero played the fiddle while Rome burned – or so the story goes. This common belief has its roots in an ancient Roman conspiracy theory. Because Emperor Nero had proposed knocking down part of the...
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The disturbing photos of Nazi death camps bring the horrific inhumanity of the Holocaust into sharp focus. While names like Auschwitz and Buchenwald are infamous, the Nazis established over 44,000...
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According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 6.6 million Jews perished in the Holocaust – some 63% of the 10.4 million in Europe at the time. Nazi Germany tried to impose its “Final...
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There are many indelible images of the Second World War: the flag-raising on Iwo Jima; the Russian soldier hoisting a red banner signifying victory at Stalingrad; crowds thronging the streets on V-E...
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