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In Israel, a law to criminalize Holocaust denial was passed by the Knesset on 8 July 1986. Denial of Holocaust (Prohibition) Law, 5746-1986. Definitions 1. In this Law, "crime against the Jewish people" and "crime against humanity" have the same respective meanings as in the "Nazis and Nazi Collaborators Law", 5710-1950.
t. e. This is a list of victims of Nazism who were noted for their achievements. Many on the lists below were of Jewish and Polish origin, although Soviet POWs, Jehovah's Witnesses, Serbs, Catholics, Roma and dissidents were also murdered. This list includes people from public life who, owing to their origins, their political or religious ...
List of Holocaust survivors. The people on this list are or were survivors of Nazi Germany 's attempt to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe before and during World War II. A state-enforced persecution of Jewish people in Nazi-controlled Europe lasted from the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 to Hitler 's defeat in 1945.
František Getreuer (1906–1945), Czech swimmer and Olympic water polo player, killed in Dachau concentration camp. Hugo Gryn (25 June 1930 – 18 August 1996), senior rabbi, London. Adélaïde Hautval (1 January 1906 – 17 October 1988), French psychiatrist who refused to cooperate with medical experimentation at Auschwitz.
Evidence and documentation for the Holocaust. The Holocaust —the murder of about six million Jews by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945—is the most-documented genocide in history. Although there is no single document which lists the names of all Jewish victims of Nazi persecution, there is conclusive evidence that about six million Jews were ...
The Night of the Long Knives ( German: Nacht der langen Messer) was a purge in which Adolf Hitler and the regime of Nazi Germany targeted members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party, as well as past opponents of the party. At least 85 people were murdered in the purge, which took place between June 30 and July 2 ...
Lidice. Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, March 12, 1943 – August 28, 1943, August 12, 1944 (3/5) and (4/5) Commander of Einsatzgruppe C, north and central Ukraine, September 6, 1943 – March 1944 (3/3) Presumed killed in action in Königsberg, East Prussia; officially declared dead in 1954. Erich Ehrlinger.
Memory of the Camps, as shown by PBS Frontline. Night and Fog, 1955, directed by Alain Resnais, narrated by Michel Bouquet. One Survivor Remembers is a 1995 Oscar-winning documentary (40 minutes) in which Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein describes her six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty.