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  • яр, Babiy yar) is a ravine in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, located ... The ravine was first noted in historical records during the early ...
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  • Mordechai Anielewicz (1919 – May 8, 1943) was the commander of the ... In January 1943, the German troops tried to enter the ghetto to round ...
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  • The Final Solution of the Jewish Question (German: Die Endlösung ... Mass killings of over one million Jews occurred before the plans of ...
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  • (Friedrich Gustav Emil) Martin" The New Encyclopaedia Britannica ... and survived imprisonment due largely to the intervention of the Bishop ...
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  • Simon Wiesenthal, Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) (December ... At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazis who participated in ...
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  • Cornelia Johanna Arnalda ten Boom, is known to the world as Corrie ... a Dutch Christian Holocaust survivor who helped an estimated 800 Jews ...
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  • Primo Levi (July 31, 1919 – April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian ... He is also the author of The Periodic Table which contains 21 reflections ...
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  • and propagandist, whose 1954 novel, The Thaw, lent its name to the ... journalist writing anti-German propaganda during World War II. After experiencing ...
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  • Sudeten German industrialist who saved his Jewish factory workers from death ... Today there are more than 7,000 descendants of the Schindler-Jews ...
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  • Auschwitz was the largest of the German Nazi concentration and extermination ... The complex consisted of three main camps: Auschwitz I, the administrative ...
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  • [[File:Ghetto (Venice) Panorama.jpg|thumb|400px|The main square of ... with varying degrees of enforcement by the dominant social group. The ...
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  • ) is one of the largest financial services provider in the world, ... Allianz was the largest insurer in Germany when the Nazi party came ...
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  • , Kishinyov) is the capital city, the industrial and commercial center ... Since the country gained its independence in 1991, Chişinău has ...
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  • The Holocaust, also known as The Shoah (Hebrew: השואה HaShoah ... (die "Endlösung der Judenfrage"). The commonly used figure ...
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  • Karaites, Karaite Judaism or Karaism is a Jewish denomination characterized ... (of Scripture)," and is derived from the old Hebrew word for the Hebrew ...
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  • The White Rose ( die Weiße Rose ) was a non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of ...
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  • a German religious leader and participant in the resistance movement against ... Bonhoeffer's writings, especially his book The Cost of Discipleship ...
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  • , (August 16, 1913 - March 9, 1992) was head of the Zionist underground ... achievement as prime minister--and in the view of many, his singular ...
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  • 20, 2003) was a French pre-war leader of the Young Right, philosopher, ... #039;s life, and he long remained one of the most mysterious figures of ...
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  • international events, he became Director of the Swedish Boy Scouts (Sveriges ... After achieving a truce a truce in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he began ...
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