Jewish residents in the ghetto of Dabrowa Gornicza and Bedzin, Poland, 1942
Jewish residents were required to wear Jewish stars makred “Jude” in many Nazi-occupied areas.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail Camera Press/Globe Photos; © Romannerud/Dreamstime.comLearn about the role of the SS, headed by Heinrich Himmler, in Adolf Hitler's reign of terror.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MarylandLearn about Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass), November 9–10, 1938.
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Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz; Thumbnail United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumDiscussion of the Nazi use of forced laborers from occupied territories to supply weapons and armaments.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records AdministrationJewish refugees initially refused entry into Cuba were eventually permitted to land on the Isle of Pines.