16.07.2010 - 16.07.2010
France remembers the victims of the Holocaust on the closest Sunday to 16 July. This timing commemorates the rounding up of Jews in the Vélodrome d'Hiver cycle track in Paris on 16 and 17 July 1942. On 3 February 1993, French President François Mitterand signed a decree introducing a ...
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04.07.2010 - 04.07.2010
Since October 1990, Latvia has held an official commemoration event for the Jewish victims of genocide on 4 July. The event commemorates the burning of the synagogue on Gogola Street in Riga, which took place in 1941, when victims were locked inside the synagogue. The event addresses the 20th ...
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05.05.2010 - 05.05.2010
On 11 November 1997, the lower house of Austria's parliament, the National Council, unanimously resolved to mark 5 May - the day on which the Mauthausen concentration camp was liberated - with a memorial day against violence and racism in remembrance of the victims of National Socialism. Since ...
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04.05.2010 - 04.05.2010
Since the end of World War II, the date of 4 May has been observed in the Netherlands as a day of solemn remembrance. The day commemorates all civilians and soldiers who died in the Kingdom of the Netherlands or anywhere else in the world since the outbreak of World War II in war situations and ...
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27.01.2010 - 27.01.2010
On 27 January 1945, the advancing Soviet army entered the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp complex, liberating more than 7000 remaining prisoners, for the most part ill or dying. Days earlier, the SS had forced nearly 60,000 prisoners to evacuate the camp and embark on the infamous Death ...
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30.11.2009 - 03.12.2009
The next Plenary Meeting of the ITF under the Norwegian Chairmanship will be held in Trondheim, Norway, from November 30 to December 3, 2009. For further information, please contact the Permanent Office at ...
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09.10.2009 - 04.12.2009, William Way LGBT Community Center
Between 1933 and 1945, Nazi Germany sought domination over Europe and, in what is now called the Holocaust, the total annihilation of Europe's Jews. As part of its effort to create a "master Aryan race," the Nazi government persecuted other groups, including Germany's homosexual men. Believing them ...
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30.09.2009 - 30.11.2009, Loudoun County Public Library
On May 10, 1933, just a few months after Adolf Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany and a full six years before World War II, German university students launched an action “Against the Un-German Spirit" targeting authors ranging from Helen Keller and Ernest Hemingway to Albert Einstein and ...
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26.08.2009 - 20.09.2009, State Library of Luisiana
On May 10, 1933, just a few months after Adolf Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany and a full six years before World War II, German university students launched an action “Against the Un-German Spirit" targeting authors ranging from Helen Keller and Ernest Hemingway to Albert Einstein and ...
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09.08.2009 - 14.02.2010, South Carolina State Museum
From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany carried out a campaign to "cleanse" German society of individuals viewed as biological threats to the nation's "health." Enlisting the help of physicians and medically trained geneticists, psychiatrists, and anthropologists, the Nazis developed racial health policies ...
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26.07.2009 - 23.08.2009, Jefferson Parish Library
On May 10, 1933, just a few months after Adolf Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany and a full six years before World War II, German university students launched an action “Against the Un-German Spirit" targeting authors ranging from Helen Keller and Ernest Hemingway to Albert Einstein and ...
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17.07.2009 - 07.02.2010, Holocaust Museum Houston
Albania, a European country with a Muslim majority, succeeded where other European nations failed in dealing with
Nazi Germany. Almost all Jews living within Albanian borders during the German occupation - those of Albanian
origin and refugees alike - were saved. In a five-year project, ...
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20.05.2009 - 15.07.2009, Branigan Cultural Center
On May 10, 1933, just a few months after Adolf Hitler came to power in Nazi Germany and a full six years before World War II, German university students launched an action “Against the Un-German Spirit" targeting authors ranging from Helen Keller and Ernest Hemingway to Albert Einstein and ...
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