In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust (now known as International Holocaust Remembrance Day). Sixty years earlier, on that day in 1945, Soviet troops entered the Auschwitz concentration camp and began to organize assistance for the survivors whom the Read More …
Warning: This article contains descriptions of violence and assault. Nov. 9–10, 2023, marks 85 years since Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass. Also known as November Pogrom, it was a wide-scale pogrom in the Third Reich that in November of 1938 included Nazi Germany, Austria, and parts of the former Czechoslovakia. Pogrom is a Read More …
On January 27, we honor those whose lives were forever changed by Nazism on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Holocaust Remembrance Day, which marks the anniversary of the liberation of more than 6,000 people from Auschwitz-Birkenau by Soviet forces, is a day of international mourning for the suffering of the millions of victims of the Holocaust, Read More …
The Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University is celebrating its Southern Jewish collections with the opening of three collections. Rose Library will host a special public event with speakers on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Jones Room on level 3 of the Woodruff Read More …
In my junior year of high school, I visited the Museum of Tolerance with my U.S. History class. Each of us was given a passport representing a child who was caught up in the events of the Holocaust. Our child’s story unfolded over the course of the exhibit, and as we exited, we learned the Read More …
