Video: 'Majdanek Concentration Camp' (23 videos)
(Wednesday, October 1, 1941; during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — Majdanek (or Lublin), a Nazi concentration and extermination camp built and operated by the SS on the outskirts of the city of Lublin during the German occupation of Poland in World War II, became operational today. Continue reading Majdanek concentration camp near Lublin in German-occupied Poland becomes operational 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 1 1941)
Video: 'The Rape of Humanity at Babi Yar - War Against Humanity 019 - September 1941 Pt. 2' (Sept. 29, 1941, at 6:09)
(Monday, September 29, 1941, approximately 8:00 a.m. Central European Summer Time; during the Babi Yar massacre and The Holocaust, part of Operation Barbarossa on the Eastern Front of World War II) — SS and German police units and their auxiliaries, under guidance of members of Einsatzgruppe C, began murdering a large portion of the Jewish population of Kiev today at Babi Yar, a ravine northwest of the city. Continue reading Special SS squads begin massacring nearly 34,000 Jewish men, women and children at Babi Yar ravine outside Kiev 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 29 1941)
Video: 'Key Historical Concepts in Holocaust Education: The Jewish Badge'
(Monday, September 1, 1941, during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — The requirement to wear the yellow badges with the word Jude (German for Jew) inscribed in letters meant to resemble Hebrew writing was extended today to all Jews over the age of six in the Reich and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (by a decree issued today signed by Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust), effective Sept. 19, 1941. Continue reading Nazis order Jewish Germans to wear yellow badge when in public 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 1 1941)
Video: 'The SS and Wehrmacht Murder Inc. - War Against Humanity 017 - August 1941, Part 2' (Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre at 15:19)
(Wednesday, August 27, 1941; during the Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre, part of the Holocaust, part of World War II) — The Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre, a World War II mass shooting of Jews carried out in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa (the German invasion of the Soviet Union), began today in the Soviet city of Kamianets-Podilskyi (now southwest Ukraine), occupied by German troops since July 11, 1941. Continue reading Massacre of 23,600 Jews in Nazi-occupied Soviet city of Kamianets-Podilskyi begins 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 27 1941)
Video: 'The World at War: Genocide: 1941-1945 (20 of 26)' (Himmler's visit to Minsk at 21:46)
(Friday, August 15, 1941; during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — While inspecting the Shirokaya Street Concentration Camp today in Minsk, Belarus, Heinrich Himmler, one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and a main architect of The Holocaust, asked to witness the shooting of 100 Jews, a sight that nauseated him when brain matter and blood sprayed his uniform. Continue reading Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler sickened after witnessing mass execution at concentration camp 80 years #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 15 1941)
Video: 'Anne Frank - The Only Known Video'
(Tuesday, July 22, 1941, during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — 12-year-old Anne Frank, a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage who would gain fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, was filmed today leaning out of the window of her Amsterdam home in Nazi-occupied Holland to get a good look at a neighbor’s wedding party below. Continue reading Only existing moving footage of Anne Frank taken in Amsterdam 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 22 1941)
(Wednesday, July 16, 1941; during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — 12-year-old Anne Frank, a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish heritage who would gain fame posthumously with the 1947 publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, and her father, Otto, were photographed today on their way to the wedding of family friends Miep Santrouschitz, 32, and Jan Glies, 35, in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Continue reading Anne Frank attends wedding of Jan and Miep Gies in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 16 1941)
Video: 'Eichmann Trial Complete' (86 clips)
(Tuesday, April 11, 1961, 9:01 a.m. Israel Standard Time; during the Eichmann trial) — Adolf Eichmann, the former Nazi charged with delivering millions of Jews to extermination camps during The Holocaust, went on trial today in Israel before a special tribunal of the Jerusalem District Court.
Continue reading Former Nazi Adolf Eichmann goes on trial in Israel for role in The Holocaust 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Apr 11 1961)
Video: 'The World at War: Occupation: Holland - 1940-1944 (18 of 26)' (February Strike at 14:20)
(Tuesday, February 25, 1941; during the era of The Holocaust, part of World War II) — The February Strike, a general strike in the German-occupied Netherlands organized by the then-outlawed Communist Party of the Netherlands in defense of persecuted Dutch Jews, began today following a series of arrests and pogroms held by the Germans in the Jewish neighborhood of Jodenbuurt in Amsterdam.
Continue reading February Strike begins in the Netherlands to protest anti-Jewish measures of Nazi occupiers 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Feb 25 1941)
Video: '912 days of the Warsaw Ghetto' (Nov. 15, 1940, at 5:53)
(Friday, November 15, 1940; during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — The Warsaw Ghetto in occupied Poland, the largest of all the Nazi ghettos during World War II, was officially sealed today by a 9.8-foot high wall topped with barbed wire, cutting off 380,000 Jews from the rest of the world. Continue reading Germans seal off Warsaw Ghetto, cutting off 380,000 Jews 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 15 1940)
