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Holocaust victims

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Holocaust victims were people who were targeted by the government of Nazi Germany for various discriminatory practices due to their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, or sexual orientation. These institutionalized practices came to be called The Holocaust, and they began with legalized social discrimination against specific groups, and involuntary hospitalization, euthanasia, and forced sterilization of those considered physically or mentally unfit for society. These practices escalated during World War II to include non-judicial incarceration, confiscation of property, forced labor, sexual slavery, medical experimentation, and death through overwork, undernourishment, and execution through a variety of methods, with the genocide of different groups as the primary goal. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the country's official memorial to the Holocaust, "The Holocaust was the murder of six million Jews and millions of others by the Nazis and their collaborators during World War II." Of those murdered for being Jewish, more than half were Ashkenazi Polish Jews. [1]

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A Story about a Bad Dream

A Story about a Bad Dream (2000) is a docudrama made by Czech director Pavel Stingl, dramatizing the diary of Eva Erbenova, a young girl who survived the Holocaust.

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Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician, demagogue, and revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

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Anne

Anne, alternatively spelled Ann, is a form of the Latin female given name Anna.

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Anton Thernes

SS-Obersturmführer Anton Thernes (8 February 1892 – 3 December 1944) was a Nazi German war criminal, deputy commandant of administration at the notorious Majdanek concentration camp on the outskirts of Lublin, Poland in World War II.

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Criticism of Holocaust denial

Criticism of Holocaust denial is directed against people who claim that the genocide of Jews during World War II in the HolocaustDonald L Niewyk, The Columbia Guide to the Holocaust, Columbia University Press, 2000, p.45: "The Holocaust is commonly defined as the murder of more than 5,000,000 Jews by the Germans in World War II." Estimates by scholars range from 5.1 million to 7.8 million.

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Ethnic cleansing of Zamojszczyzna by Nazi Germany

The ethnic cleansing of Zamojszczyzna by Nazi Germany (Aktion Zamosc, also: Operation Himmlerstadt) during World War II was carried out as part of a greater plan of forcible removal of the entire Polish populations from targeted regions of occupied Poland in preparation for the state-sponsored settlement of the ethnic German Volksdeutsche.

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Generalplan Ost

The Generalplan Ost (Master Plan for the East), abbreviated GPO, was the German government's plan for the genocide and ethnic cleansing on a vast scale, and colonization of Central and Eastern Europe by Germans.

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Gerda Hasselfeldt

Gerda Hasselfeldt (born 7 July 1950 in Straubing) is a German politician (CSU) from Bavaria.

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Hermann Florstedt

Arthur Hermann Florstedt (18 February 1895 – 15 April 1945), member of the NSDAP, was a German SS commander, war criminal and convicted war profiteer.

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Humanitarian Fund for the Victims of the Holocaust

The Humanitarian Fund for the Victims of the Holocaust was created by the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA) as a result of the "Meili Affair".

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Ilan Sadeh

Ilan Sadeh (born June 1, 1953) is an Israeli IT theoretician, entrepreneur, and human rights activist.

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Index of World War II articles (H)

# H-hour (D-day).

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International response to the Holocaust

In the decades since the Holocaust, some national governments, international bodies and world leaders have been criticized for their failure to take appropriate action to save the millions of European Jews, Roma, and other victims of the Holocaust.

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Judith Magyar Isaacson

Judith Magyar Isaacson (July 3, 1925 – November 10, 2015) was a Hungarian-American educator, university administrator, speaker, and author.

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Katsuya Takasu

is a plastic surgeon based in Tokyo.

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Kevin Myers

Kevin Myers (born 30 March 1947) is an English-born Irish journalist and writer.

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Konstantin Fam

Konstantin Fam aka Costa Fam (rus. Константи́н Фа́м, born July 13, 1972, Pervomayskiy, USSR) is an independent director, producer, screenwriter.

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LGBT rights opposition

LGBT rights opposition is the opposition to legal rights, proposed or enacted, for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.

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Life unworthy of life

The phrase "life unworthy of life" (in "Lebensunwertes Leben") was a Nazi designation for the segments of the populace which, according to the Nazi regime of the time, had no right to live.

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Lindner Ethics Complaint of the 83rd Minnesota Legislative Session

In 2004 then State Rep.

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List of Holocaust memorials and museums

A number of organizations, museums and monuments are intended to serve as memorials to the Holocaust, the Nazi Final Solution, and its millions of victims.

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List of Holocaust survivors

The people on this list are or were survivors of Nazi Germany's attempt to exterminate the Jews in Europe before and during World War II.

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London Conference on Nazi Gold

The London Conference on Nazi Gold was an international conference held in London in December 1997.

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Margarete Kahn

Margarete Kahn (known as Grete Kahn, born 27 August 1880, missing after deportation to Piaski, Poland on 28 March 1942) was a German mathematician and Holocaust victim.

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Names of the Holocaust

Names of the Holocaust vary based on context.

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Nazi crimes against the Polish nation

Crimes against the Polish nation committed by Nazi Germany and the collaborationist forces during the invasion of Poland, along with auxiliary battalions during the subsequent occupation of Poland in World War II, claimed the lives of 2.77 million Poles and 2.7 to 2.9 million Polish Jews, according to estimates of the Polish government-affiliated Institute of National Remembrance (IPN).

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

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Nazi Party

The National Socialist German Workers' Party (abbreviated NSDAP), commonly referred to in English as the Nazi Party, was a far-right political party in Germany that was active between 1920 and 1945 and supported the ideology of Nazism.

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Nazi persecution of the Catholic Church in Poland

The Catholic Church in Poland was brutally suppressed by the Nazis during the German Occupation of Poland (1939-1945).

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Page of Testimony

A Page of Testimony is a form issued by Yad Vashem (יד ושם) that asks for information about a Jewish victim of the Holocaust.

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Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

Upon the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazi Party) in Germany, gay men and, to a lesser extent, lesbians, were two of the numerous groups targeted by the Nazis and were ultimately among Holocaust victims.

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Phil Weiser

Philip Jacob ("Phil") Weiser is the Hatfield Professor of Law and Telecommunications, Executive Director and Founder of the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship, and Dean Emeritus at the University of Colorado Law School.

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Pillar of Shame

Pillar of Shame is a series of sculptures by Danish artist Jens Galschiot.

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Reinhold Hanning

Reinhold Hanning (28 December 1921 – 30 May 2017Alison Smale,, New York Times (June 1, 2017).) was an SS guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp in occupied Poland.

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Robert Holczer

Robert Holczer (August 31, 1929 – August 28, 2017) was a Holocaust survivor, teacher, and resident of Hungary, Israel, Germany, and the United States.

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Roman Shvartsman

Roman Markovich Shvartsman (born November 7, 1936) is chairman of the Odessa regional Association of Jews – former prisoners of ghetto and Nazi concentration camps.

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Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center

The Russian Research and Educational Holocaust Center was founded in 1992 in Moscow and has since then been working on awareness raising of the Holocaust in the Russian society.

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Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger

Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (born 26 July 1951) is a German politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party and a prominent advocate of human rights in Germany and Europe.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylized as with Armanen runes;; literally "Protection Squadron") was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Temple Emanuel (Kensington, Maryland)

Temple Emanuel is a synagogue located in Kensington, Maryland.

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Thomas Borer

Thomas Borer (born 1957) is a former ambassador of Switzerland.

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Thomas Lutz

Thomas Lutz (1957 in Darmstadt) is the head of the Memorial Museums Department of the Topography of Terror Foundation in Berlin, and active in Holocaust education and research at the national (German) and international level.

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UBS

UBS Group AG is a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company founded and based in Switzerland.

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Wilhelm Stein

Wilhelm Stein (May 15, 1895 - June 26, 1944) was a German engineer, a Jewish resistance fighter, and Holocaust victim.

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World War II casualties

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history in absolute terms of total casualties.

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1940s

The 1940s (pronounced "nineteen-forties" and commonly abbreviated as the "Forties") was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949.

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1941 Odessa massacre

The Odessa massacre is the name given to the mass murder of Jewish population of Odessa and surrounding towns in the Transnistria Governorate during the autumn of 1941 and winter of 1942 while under Romanian control.

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Holocaust Victims, Holocaust victim, Persecution of Communists and Socialists during the Holocaust, Victims of the Holocaust.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims

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