Born in the Soviet Ukraine, John Demjanjuk was the defendant in four different court proceedings relating to crimes that he committed while serving as a collaborator of the Nazi regime. His recent trial in Germany may be the last time that an accused Nazi-era war criminal stands trial. If so, it would mark the culmination of a 65 year period of prosecutions that began with the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.
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Organized by theme, this site uses text, historical photographs, maps, images of artifacts, and audio clips to provide an overview of the Holocaust.
Anne Frank was one of over one million Jewish children who died in the Holocaust. She was born Annelies Marie Frank on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Otto and Edith Frank.
Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an important U.S. documentary filmmaker who filmed and photographed the everyday life, work, and culture of individuals and communities in many countries around the globe.
The word antisemitism means prejudice against or hatred of Jews. The Holocaust, the state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945, is history’s most extreme example of antisemitism.
