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Seventy years ago last week, 1,000 German Jews who had once considered Germany home, were rounded up on Track 17 of the Grunewald station in Berlin and loaded onto a train bound for the Lodz Ghetto in Poland. This was the beginning in earnest of the Nazis’ Final Solution to the “Jewish problem.” As reported in [...]  Imagine being captured by an invading army and then forced to watch as your captors torture and murder people you know as friends, neighbors, and countrymen. You are not only forced to witness these horrors, but to photograph them for your tormentors’ perverse records – knowing that yours will likely be the last photographs ever [...] Some of the original sites of the Nazi atrocities have been preserved through the years and can be used to educate and serve as warnings for future generations. The question that arises, however, is how best to preserve the remains of these camps so they can, at the same time, be used as educational resources [...] President Obama concluded a visit to Poland this week with a visit to the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, a memorial to the prisoners of the Warsaw Ghetto. We are pleased to see that the president took the time to meet with survivors and pay his respects to the memories of the victims of the [...] We had long called on the International Tracing Service (ITS) to open its archive of more than 50 million Holocaust-related documents. In 2007, the ITS, based in Bad Arolsen, Germany, granted access to this unparalleled archive to Holocaust survivors, victims’ relatives, and historical researchers. Now the international commission that established the ITS in 1944 is [...] |
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