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Holocaust survivor shares family’s experience of growing up in Nazi-occupied Poland
It is getting harder and harder to hear about the Holocaust from people who lived through it. In Gulfport Sunday night, there was a rare opportunity to hear about Nazi-occupied Poland from a Jewish ...
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Poland’s prime minister said some Jews collaborated with Nazis. Scholars say he distorted history.
While some Jews aided the Nazis, historians point out, they did so under the threat of death and often the fear of mass reprisals. (JTA) — The row between Poland and Israel about the Holocaust ...
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The surprising ways 3 women secretly fought the Nazis in Poland
After German dictator Adolf Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939, Nazis began segregating millions of Jews in Eastern Europe into sections of towns and cities designated "ghettos," eventually ...
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Poland just honored a historian who said the Nazi invasion wasn’t so bad for the Jews
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — A Polish historian who said the country’s Nazi invasion was initially not so bad for Jews received a medal from the Polish education minister “for special merits for ...
Auschwitz survivors the focus of ceremony to mark 80 years since camp's liberation, Holocaust Remembrance Day
Survivors of the Nazi's notorious Auschwitz death camp are taking center stage at the memorial service to mark 80 years since its liberation by Soviet troops.