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Today, protecting and assisting the estimated 14 million refugees worldwide remains a challenge. This scene from the Iridimi refugee camp in Chad shows refugees living in makeshift shelters constructed from sheeting provided by relief groups and from local materials.
Today, protecting and assisting the estimated 14 million refugees worldwide remains a challenge. This scene from the Iridimi refugee camp in Chad shows refugees living in makeshift shelters constructed from sheeting provided by relief groups and from local materials. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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    he Holocaust — the mass murder of the European Jews — was a watershed event in human history. In the aftermath of World War II, the world — from individual nations to the United Nations; from religious leaders to professionals in fields as diverse as law, medicine, and science; from presidents and prime ministers to private citizens — confronted its legacy. Many of the issues raised by this cataclysmic event continue to have an impact on our lives and the world in which we live.

     
    Did you know?
      In light of the moral failures that allowed the Holocaust to happen...
    Nations pledged to prevent and punish the crime of “genocide”?
    Criminal trials established that government officials who commit crimes against humanity could be held accountable by international tribunals?
    International protection of human rights expanded dramatically?
    The idea of “informed consent” influenced ethical approaches to medical experimentation on human beings?
    Protections for refugees were broadened?
    The movement towards reconciliation between Christians and Jews advanced?
    The idea of a Jewish homeland gained urgency?
      Click on the links below to learn more about the topics above.

    General Dwight D. Eisenhower visited the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945, to witness firsthand the evidence of Nazi atrocities. He urged others to do the same, lest these crimes be forgotten or dismissed as mere ‘propaganda.’”
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    General Dwight D. Eisenhower visited the newly liberated Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945, to witness firsthand the evidence of Nazi atrocities. He urged others to do the same, lest these crimes be forgotten or dismissed as mere ‘propaganda.’” USHMM, courtesy of National Archives
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    PREVENTING AND PUNISHING THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE
     
  • Web site of the Museum’s Committee on Conscience
    www.ushmm.org/conscience/
    (USHMM)


    • Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic who was put on trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal, The Hague.
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    Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic who was put on trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal, The Hague.
    		 
    INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
     
  • Museum’s special focus Web page, “The Nuremberg Trials and Their Legacy”
    www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/warcrimetrials/
    (USHMM Special Focus page)

  • Museum’s online Holocaust Encyclopedia article, “War Crimes Trials”
    www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005140
    (USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia article)

  • Web site of the Museum’s Committee on Conscience
    www.ushmm.org/conscience/
    (USHMM)


    • Speaking out on behalf of human rights is Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize–winner, Holocaust survivor, and Founding Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
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    Speaking out on behalf of human rights is Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize–winner, Holocaust survivor, and Founding Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. USHMM
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    INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
     
  • Web site of the Museum’s Committee on Conscience
    www.ushmm.org/conscience/
    (USHMM)


    • Carl Clauberg (far left), a research gynecologist, conducted cruel experiments at Auschwitz mostly on Jewish prisoners in 1943–44, aiming to develop an inexpensive method of mass sterilization.
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    Carl Clauberg (far left), a research gynecologist, conducted cruel experiments at Auschwitz mostly on Jewish prisoners in 1943–44, aiming to develop an inexpensive method of mass sterilization. Instytut Pamieci Narodowej—Komisja Scigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, Warsaw
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    THE PRINCIPLE OF “INFORMED CONSENT”
     
  • Museum’s online exhibition The Doctors Trial
    www.ushmm.org/research/doctors/
    (USHMM online exhibition)

  • Museum’s online exhibition Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
    www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/deadlymedicine/
    (USHMM online exhibition)


    • Hadiya Adam Ahmed, living under a tree after fleeing into Chad from Darfur, Sudan, 2004. She had been shot twice by a Sudanese soldier to prevent her reaching a well.
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    Hadiya Adam Ahmed, living under a tree after fleeing into Chad from Darfur, Sudan, 2004. She had been shot twice by a Sudanese soldier to prevent her reaching a well. USHMM, photo by Jerry Fowler
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    PROTECTIONS FOR REFUGEES
     
  • Committee on Conscience online programs “Contemporary Flight and Rescue: Seeking Refuge in America Today” and “Preventing Future Genocide and Protecting Refugees”
    www.ushmm.org/conscience/analysis/details.php?
    content=2000-06-15&menupage=Refugees
    (USHMM)

  • Museum’s online exhibition Voyage of the St. Louis
    www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/stlouis/
    (USHMM online exhibition)

  • Museum’s online Holocaust Encyclopedia article, “Refugees”
    www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005139
    (USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia article)

  • Museum’s online Holocaust Encyclopedia article, “Varian Fry”
    www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005740
    (USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia article)


    • Pope John Paul II places a prayer in the Western Wall in Jerusalem during his historic trip to Israel in 2000.
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    Pope John Paul II places a prayer in the Western Wall in Jerusalem during his historic trip to Israel in 2000. Photo courtesy of “A Blessing to One Another”
    		 
    RECONCILIATION BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND JEWS
     
  • Museum's special focus Web page on the resurgence of antisemitism
    www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/antisemitism/
    (USHMM Special Focus page)

  • “The Interfaith Story behind Nostra Aetate” on the Web site of the Museum’s Committee on Church Relations and the Holocaust
    www.ushmm.org/research/center/presentations/index.php?
    content=programs/presentations/2005-12-07/
    (USHMM Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies)


    • Jewish refugees from Europe aboard the RMS <i>Mataroa</i> hold a Zionist flag as their ship legally enters the port of Haifa, July 1945.
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    Jewish refugees from Europe aboard the RMS Mataroa hold a Zionist flag as their ship legally enters the port of Haifa, July 1945. USHMM, courtesy of Israel Government Press Office
    		 
    THE IDEA OF A JEWISH HOMELAND
     
  • Museum's online exhibition Life Reborn: Jewish Displaced Persons 1945–1951
    www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/dp/
    (USHMM online exhibition)

    • “A single landmark of justice and honor does not make a world of peace.
    — FORMER U.S. SECRETARY OF WAR HENRY STIMSON,
    JANUARY 1947.
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