Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation in Florida
27 January 2025 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Miami / South Florida, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time: 5 minutes The Holocaust Memorial of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation is a Holocaust memorial at 1933-1945 Meridian Avenue, in Miami Beach, Florida. read more…Portrait: Simone Veil, first President of the European Parliament and Holocaust survivor
25 December 2024 | Author/Destination: Editorial / Redaktion | Rubric: General, European Union, Portrait Reading Time: 7 minutes Simone Veil was a French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and politician who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1982, the first woman to hold that office. As health minister, she is best remembered for advancing women’s rights in France, in particular for the 1975 law that legalized abortion, today known as the Veil Act (French: Loi Veil). From 1998 to 2007, she was a member of the Constitutional Council, France’s highest legal authority. read more…Dutch National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam
16 November 2024 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time: 8 minutes The Dutch National Holocaust Museum (Dutch: Nationaal Holocaust museum) is the first official museum on the Holocaust in the Netherlands. It is located in an historic building in the Jewish Cultural Quarter of Amsterdam, near a former child care center that played a role in rescuing Jewish children. The museum tells the story of the Holocaust through the lives of individual victimised men, women, and children. There is a floor-to-ceiling display of all the laws limiting and obliterating the rights of Jews in the Netherlands, who since the eighteenth century had been Dutch citizens with equal rights. read more…The MS St. Louis and the Voyage of the Damned
9 November 2024 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, Hamburg Reading Time: 12 minutes
Memorial plaque to the Voyage of the Damned at St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken, Brücke 3, Hamburg, Germany
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Anne Frank House in Amsterdam
27 January 2024 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, Museums, Exhibitions Reading Time: 11 minutes
Anne Frank in May 1942, two months before she and her family went into hiding
© Photo collection Anne Frank House, Amsterdam
Fraenkelufer Synagogue in Berlin
9 November 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, Berlin Reading Time: 11 minutes
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Hôtel Beauharnais in Paris
9 November 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General, Paris / Île-de-France Reading Time: 8 minutes
Inauguration of the German embassy residence, 1968
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Babyn Yar
30 September 2023 | Author/Destination: European Union / Europäische Union | Rubric: General Reading Time: 6 minutes
Soviet POWs covering a mass grave after the Babi Yar massacre, October 1, 1941 © history.kby.kiev.ua – Johannes Hähle