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Jewish History

Jewish History Events

1998 Dec 9 Amsterdam District Court Imposes a Penalty on Denial of Authenticity of Anne Frank's Diary
In 1991, Holocaust deniers Robert Faurisson and Siegfried Verbeke produced a booklet titled The Diary of Anne Frank: A Critical Approach. They claimed that Otto Frank wrote the diary, bas...
1999 Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour Opens
The Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour (the memorial center of Oradour) has made its mission to commemorate the crimes of the 2nd armored division of the Waffen-SS "Das Reich" in Oradour-sur-...
2000 Sep Opening of Auschwitz Jewish Center
The main exhibition presents the nearly 500 years of Jewish history, tradition, and culture in Oswiecim. Visitors to the Center have the opportunity to connect with Oswiecim’s pre-war Jew...
2000 Oct 25 Unveiling of Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial
The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial (German: Mahnmal für die 65.000 ermordeten österreichischen Juden und Jüdinnen der Shoah) also known as the Nameless Library stands in Judenplatz in the ...
2001 Dutch Government Retrieves Five Omitted Pages of Anne Frank's Diary
Cornelis Suijk—a former director of the Anne Frank Foundation and president of the U.S. Center for Holocaust Education Foundation—announced in 1999 that he was in the possession of five p...
2001 Monument to Children Killed at Babi Yar
Babi Yar, a ravine near Kiev, was the scene of possibly the largest shooting massacre during The Holocaust. After the war, commemoration efforts encountered serious difficulty because of ...
2001 Nov 9 Children's Holocaust Memorial is Unveiled
The Children's Holocaust Memorial consists of an authentic German transport car (which arrived in Baltimore on September 9, 2001) surrounded by a small garden.The railcar is filled with 1...
2004 Dec 15 Completion of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin t...
2009 Apr 19 Opening of New Museum Building of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center
The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center is the main memorial and educational center for The Holocaust in the Midwestern United States. Its foundation cost was 45 million dollar...
2009 Dec 18 Notorious 'Arbeit Macht Frei ' Sign Stolen from Site of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
Thieves stole the notorious sign bearing the cynical Nazi slogan "Work Sets You Free" from the entrance to the former Auschwitz death camp on Friday, cutting through rows of barbed wire a...
2009 Dec 22 Stolen 'Arbeit Macht Frei' Sign Retreived and Returned to Auschwitz Former Nazi Death Camp
Polish police found the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign that was stolen from the gate of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz after an intensive three-day hunt and arrested five susp...
2010 Mar 23 Ex-Nazi, Heinrich Boere, Sentenced to Life in Prison for War Crimes
As German authorities pursue suspected Nazi war criminals to the last, a court in Aachen convicted an 88-year-old former SS soldier on Tuesday on charges of killing three Dutch civilians ...
2011 May 18 Notorious 'Arbeit Macht Frei ' Sign Restored to Site of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
The "Arbeit macht frei" (work sets you free) sign was stolen by a gang of Polish thieves acting at the behest of a Swedish far-right-winger. Technicians unveiled the restored sign in t...