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Warsaw Ghetto, Poland

Weekly Snapshot: Last Remnant of Warsaw Ghetto Wall

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Remnant of Ghetto Wall – Warsaw, Poland This is the last original remnant of the Warsaw Ghetto Wall, which enclosed the largest of all Jewish Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. The Warsaw Ghetto was established by the German Governor-General Hans Frank on October 16, 1940.  By his orders, all Jews in Warsaw [...]

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Auschwitz-Birkenau

Weekly Snapshot: Auschwitz-Birkenau

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Auschwitz Concentration Camp Entrance – Auschwitz, Poland Auschwitz was a series of concentration and extermination camps built in Nazi-occupied Poland during the Second World War. It was the largest of the German concentration camps, consisting of Auschwitz I (the base camp), Auschwitz II-Birkenau (the extermination camp), and Auschwitz III-Monowitz (a labor camp) The camps were [...]

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Shalechet at the Jewish Museum in Berlin

Weekly Snapshot: Shalechet

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Shalechet @ The Jewish Museum in Berlin This is a sculpture/installation called Shalechet (the Hebrew one-word term for ‘fallen’ or ‘dead leaves’) by Menashe Kadishman at the Jewish Museum in Berlin.  Over 15,000 open-mouthed faces coarsely cut from heavy, circular iron plates cover the floor of a void space between the museum exhibition rooms.  Their [...]

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Schindler's Factory

Places to Go to Re-Live Europe’s WWII History

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Sometimes I consider myself a bit of a history geek and that was evidently reflected in my last trip through Europe. Of course, Europe counts with so much interesting history, but one particular period has always caught my attention… World War II. This might be one of the darkest periods of all mankind, but behind [...]

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