08.01.2012 - 10.01.2012
Association of Holocaust Organization's Winter Seminar from January 8-10, 2012 at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The program is available here. Please note: conference is only open to AHO ...
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09.11.2011 - 09.11.2011
("Crystal Night" or "Night of the Broken Glass"). Pogrom (massacre or riot
against Jews) carried out by the Nazis throughout Germany and Austria on
November 9-10, 1938. The name Kristallnacht refers to the glass of the shop
windows smashed by the ...
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10.10.2011 - 10.10.2011
The state of Luxembourg has designated October 10 as the official National Day of Commemoration. October 10 was the date of the 1941 referendum where the 90% of the population of Luxembourg identified themselves as ethnically Luxembourgish and not as ethnic ...
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09.10.2011 - 09.10.2011
9 October has been designated as Holocaust Memorial Day in ...
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23.09.2011 - 23.09.2011
The Lithuanian state declared 23 September as the National Memorial Day for the Genocide of the Lithuanian Jews. The date commemorates the murder of the remaining prisoners of the Vilnius ghetto in ...
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09.09.2011 - 09.09.2011
9 September 1941 was the date the Jewish Code was promulgated in Slovakia. The Slovakian state designated September 9 the Day of Victims of the Holocaust and Racial ...
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01.09.2011 - 01.09.2011
The Germans invade Poland on 1 September 1939, leading to Britain declaring war on Germany on 3 September and the start of the Second World ...
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23.08.2011 - 23.08.2011
The resolution passed by the European Parliament on 2 April 2009 determined 23 August, the date on which in 1939 the infamous Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement was signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, as a date of remembrance to victims of both ...
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02.08.2011 - 02.08.2011
On the night between 2-3 August 1944, several thousand Roma and Sinti were massacred at the Zigeunerlager in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The date of 2 August is now used to commemorate the genocide against the Roma and Sinti ...
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04.07.2011 - 04.07.2011
The Latvian parliament has designated July 4 the official national Holocaust memorial ...
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09.05.2011 - 09.05.2011
May 9 has been designated Holocaust Memorial Day by the state of Slovenia. Commemorations are held to remember all victims of fascism and National ...
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08.05.2011 - 08.05.2011
This day marks the anniversary of the unconditional surrender of Germany's armed forces on May 8, 1945. This day is commemorated in many European countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Norway, Denmark and the ...
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05.05.2011 - 05.05.2011
May 5 is the anniversary of the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp, and was designated by Austrian parliament as the Day of Remembrance against Violence and Racism in Memory of the Victims of National ...
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01.05.2011 - 01.05.2011
Commemorated on the day corresponding to 27 Nissan in the Hebrew calendar, "Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day," known as Yom HaShoah, is the day the Jewish Community remembers those who were murdered as a result of actions taken by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. The day also acknowledges ...
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19.04.2011 - 19.04.2011
Since 2004, Poland has commemorated the victims of the Holocaust on 19 April, which marks the beginning of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943. It is called the "Day of Remembrance of Holocaust Victims". In addition to 19 April, 27 January is also commemorated in ...
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