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Google Earth Taking You Inside Refugee Camps

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:57:24 GMT

Google Earth Taking You Inside Refugee Camps
Canada Free Press, Canada - Apr 10, 2008
Just yesterday, Michael Graham of the Genocide Prevention Mapping Initiative at the US Holocaust Museum launched a new layer called “World is Witness. ...

Cops to get training at DC Holocaust Museum

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:29:35 GMT

Cops to get training at DC Holocaust Museum
Fairfield Minuteman, CT - 7 hours ago
The Holocaust museum, in conjunction with the Anti-Defemation League and the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, created the training program ...

Cops to get training at DC Holocaust Museum

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:57:58 GMT

Cops to get training at DC Holocaust Museum
Fairfield Minuteman, CT - Mar 27, 2008
The Holocaust museum, in conjunction with the Anti-Defemation League and the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, created the training program ...

How Hate Begins

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:29:40 GMT

How Hate Begins
Council on Foreign Relations, NY - 10 hours ago
Researchers on the Holocaust Museum staff sift through digital copies of this mass of material, along with other historical sources, with the goal of ...

A Reporter at Large

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:29:27 GMT

A Reporter at Large
New Yorker, United States - Mar 9, 2008
While the question of whether or not to display the hair of Holocaust victims has been settled at the Holocaust Museum, conservators and administrators at ...

Deadly medicine

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 17:57:43 GMT

Deadly medicine
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN - Feb 25, 2008
... designed to answer one of the big 'how was the Holocaust possible' questions," said Susan Bachrach, curator of the exhibition at the Holocaust Museum. ...

Expert to speak on racial facet of Holocaust

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:57:20 GMT

Expert to speak on racial facet of Holocaust
Macon Telegraph, GA - 7 hours ago
Of the 17 million people whose names the Holocaust museum received from the International Tracing Service, which tracked the detainees, six million were ...

US Holocaust Museum sponsoring program in Boca

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:57:44 GMT

US Holocaust Museum sponsoring program in Boca
Boca Raton News, USA - Feb 6, 2008
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s fourth annual Legacy of Light Society luncheon will feature Dr. Robert Satloff, author of “Among the ...

Holocaust Museum opens Online Youth Service Program

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:57:44 GMT

Holocaust Museum opens Online Youth Service Program
Student Operated Press, FL - Feb 6, 2008
by SOPnewswire WASHINGTON, DC — The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum launched R 3 : Remembrance, Reflection, Response, a free, online Museum youth ...

Common cruelty persists in spite of history's lessons

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:05:23 GMT

Common cruelty persists in spite of history's lessons
The Olympian, WA - 53 minutes ago
To walk in the Holocaust Museum is to be reminded of the logical, inevitable result of that refusal to accept, that insistence upon declaring that some ...

Vast Nazi archive opens to public

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:27:05 GMT

Vast Nazi archive opens to public
Pierceland Herald, Canada - 2 hours ago
In 2001 the State Department, urged on by the Holocaust museum, began pushing the 11-member governing commission to open the doors to the rapidly dying ...

Iranian president 'pathetic,' Wiesel says

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:07:26 GMT

Iranian president 'pathetic,' Wiesel says
Chicago Tribune, United States - 18 hours ago
Wiesel was the founding chairman of the Holocaust museum, which opened in Washington in 1993, and is now a professor at Boston University. ...

Holocaust Museum to feature traveling exhibit

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:11:59 GMT

Holocaust Museum to feature traveling exhibit
WTHR, IN - Sep 30, 2007
Terre Hatue, Ind. - A national Holocaust Museum exhibit is coming to a museum in Terre Haute. The exhibit, "Assignment: Rescue, The Story of Varian Fry and ...

From The Nazis To Darfur

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:15:24 GMT

From The Nazis To Darfur
Hartford Courant, United States - 4 hours ago
What the diverse group of 50 people from Bloomfield saw Tuesday at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum was a culture whose moorings were torn away. ...

DC, Jerusalem Museums Given Huge Nazi Archive

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:13:50 GMT

DC, Jerusalem Museums Given Huge Nazi Archive
Washington Post, United States - 12 hours ago
Six computer hard drives bearing electronic images of 20 million pages arrived late Monday at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum here and the Yad Vashem ...

Local teacher experiences a piece of history in Washington, DC

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:05:17 GMT

Local teacher experiences a piece of history in Washington, DC
SouthCoastToday.com, MA - Jul 21, 2007
... Ms. Connor boarded a chartered plane at Hanscom Field at 7 am on June 27 and set out on a trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in ...

Nazi records detail a lucky twist of fate

Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:21:20 GMT

Nazi records detail a lucky twist of fate
Deseret News, UT - 9 hours ago
Shapiro, director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, described Schwartz's journey through the hellish ...

Vienna Jewish Archive Tells Tale of Nazi Annexation

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:11:59 GMT

Vienna Jewish Archive Tells Tale of Nazi Annexation
NPR - Jul 14, 2007
For the seven years since its discovery, the community and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, have been cataloging the archive in order to ...

Vienna Jewish Archive on Display

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:51:25 GMT

Vienna Jewish Archive on Display
ABC News - Jul 4, 2007
Since 2002, the Jewish Community Vienna and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington have been working together to preserve the material found in 2000 ...

Rare Diary Published by Holocaust Memorial Museum

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:53:55 GMT

Rare Diary Published by Holocaust Memorial Museum
Epoch Times, NY - Jun 26, 2007
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum learned about McDonald's diary when a two year fragment was donated to the museum in 2003 by Patricia Sugrue ...

Students 'all quiet' after visit to Holocaust Museum

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:17:58 GMT

Students 'all quiet' after visit to Holocaust Museum
Muskegon Chronicle, MI - 22 hours ago
... face with what many of them characterized as one of the most powerful exhibits in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: a massive pile of shoes. ...

Pre World War II Diary Warns of Coming Holocaust

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:32:10 GMT

Pre-World War II Diary Warns of Coming Holocaust
Epoch Times, NY - Jun 25, 2007
The diary was published by Indiana University Press in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. "What this book tells is a sort of ...

Story of survival

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:10:12 GMT

Story of survival
SouthCoastToday.com, MA - Jun 8, 2007
In her research, Rachel — who has relatives who were victims of the Holocaust — visited the Web site of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, ...

Miami professor helping Holocaust survivors tell of horrors

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:56:48 GMT

Miami professor helping Holocaust survivors tell of horrors
Hamilton Journal News (subscription), OH - Jun 8, 2007
The question rang in the ears of Holocaust survivors during a professor's presentation at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, ...

Huge Holocaust archive unveiled

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:10:55 GMT

Huge Holocaust archive unveiled
Chicago Sun-Times, IL - 1 hour ago
... deportation lists, emigration documents, poignant letters and family photos, goes on display Thursday at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. ...

A Nation’s Lost Holocaust History, Now on Display

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:22:56 GMT

A Nation’s Lost Holocaust History, Now on Display
New York Times, NY - Jun 1, 2007
... preserving and microfilming the archives — a joint project of Jewish Community Vienna and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington ...

Bush Tightens Fiscal Penalties Against Sudan

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 19:02:19 GMT

Bush Tightens Fiscal Penalties Against Sudan
New York Times, NY - 49 minutes ago
... many expected him to announce measures against Sudan last month in a speech he delivered at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. ...

Art project gives context to history's horrors

Thu, 24 May 2007 16:26:29 GMT

Art project gives context to history's horrors
Billerica Minuteman, MA - 17 hours ago
... project was based on video testimonies of Holocaust survivors taken in the 1990s that are now stored at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC.

UN officials learn Holocaust lessons at Washington seminar

Fri, 18 May 2007 15:11:40 GMT

UN officials learn Holocaust lessons at Washington seminar
Jerusalem Post, Israel - 18 hours ago
... prevention," said Dan Napolitano, director of education within the National Institute of Holocaust Education at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. ...

Big ideas from young mind

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 18:15:24 GMT

Big ideas from young mind
Chicago Tribune, IL - 5 hours ago
John Heffernan, an official with the Holocaust Memorial Museum, said leaders need to talk about ideas generated by students such as Stoller. ...

US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Fri, 04 May 2007 19:31:23 GMT

US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Voice of America - 22 minutes ago
SWIADER: "The US Holocaust Memorial Museum website is a place that you can get, we hope, any answer to any question about the history of the holocaust and, ...