An article about the history of the Bergen-Belsen camp complex and the varied roles it played in the Nazi efforts to imprison a wide variety of populations throughout World War II.
Read about the plight of children, especially Jewish and Roma children, during the Holocaust
Article summarizing the development and use of numerous concentration camps by the Nazis in the early years of World War II. The camps were used to provide forced labor, retain political prisoners, and any populations the Nazis wanted to remove from society.
Article details the Nazi need for forced labor and the solution they found in the concentration camps they established. It also mentions the use of prisoners in medical experiments.
Spanish content; from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum we have the Spanish version of the Holocaust encyclopedia of the museum; in this case a "Cronologia del Holocausto (1939 - 1945)" or "Chronology of the Holocaust (1939 - 1945)" is defined with a detailed list of relevant dates and events.
Spanish content; from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum we have the Spanish version of the Holocaust encyclopedia of the museum; in this case a "Cronologia del Holocausto (1945 - 1948)" or "Chronology of the Holocaust (1945 - 1948)" is defined with a detailed description of relevant dates and events.
Article about the Dachau concentration camp which housed almost 200,000 prisoners, both political and ethnic, in the period between 1933, when the Nazis took power in Germany, and mid-1945 when the Allies liberated the camps.
A description of the forced marches the Nazis used to try to keep concentration camp victims out of the hands of the Allies in the last few months of World War II.
Text details the planned methods of moving Holocaust victims from ghettos and labor camps to extermination camps during World War II.
Article about the establishment of centers for displaced persons, especially Jews who survived the Holocaust, and about the subsequent emigration of most of those people in the decade following the end of World War II.
A description of the role of the euphemistically-titled Einsatzgruppen as mobile killing units by the Nazis, including both where and how they were employed.
Article about the weak response that countries made to the need to open up immigration to more Jewish refugees prior to World War II. The arguments sound very familiar today.
Spanish content: From the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Mauthausen" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.
A detailed article covering the establishment of the euthanasia program initiated by Adolf Hitler's regime.
A description of the role forced labor played in the Nazi treatment of Jews and Russian POWs during World War II.
Article about the massacre of concentration camp prisoners at the end of a "death march" in the Gardelegen region of Germany at the end of World War II.
Article detailing the persecution and annihilation of much of the European Roma population under Nazi orders during World War II, and the continued persecutionof the remaining Roma population in many countries after the war.
Browsable directory of encyclopedia articles on topics related to the Holocaust, with accompanying rich-media material (photos, maps, historical films, audio clips, etc.) available for particular topics. A full complement of articles is available in English; translations in other languages are available for select entries.
In spite of the great risk, many non-Jewish people across Europe undertook rescue operations, both great and small, to hide or remove people persecuted by the Nazis, especially Jews. This article discusses some of the most notable efforts.
Article about the concentration camps established by the Nazis in the area around Jasenovac in Croatia, and their use in eliminating political and religious opponents, as well as Jews shipped in from other places in Eastern Europe.