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What Was the Holocaust?
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Is the Holocaust definable? Is it desirable to define it? After all, definitions are abstractions from reality and are useful only insofar as they help us to better understand the world around us. Any…

Contributor:

Yehuda Bauer

Places:

Jerusalem, Israel

Date:

2001

Subjects:

Holocaust, Genocide, Racism, Language and linguistics

Categories:

Political Culture, History, Historical Writing
A Diary of the Nazi Ghetto in Vilna
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This morning I was in the children’s nursery. Women who work leave their children from 7 to 6. There are 150 children between the ages of three months and two years, [one…

Contributor:

Zelig Kalmanovitch

Places:

Vilna, USSR (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Death, Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Jewish identity, Genocide

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries, History, Historical Writing
The Birthday Party
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It was taken on Saturday, March 20, 1937, in the town of Swienciany, which lies on the Polish border with Lithuania approximately 50 miles northeast of Vilna. Nine girls and two boys, together with…

Contributor:

Avner Holtzman

Places:

Tel Aviv, Israel

Date:

2002

Subjects:

Holocaust, Genocide, Pogroms, Antisemitism, Family

Categories:

Political Culture, History, Historical Writing
Photograph of many people sitting around a set table and looking at the camera.