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The Holocaust
Nazi Eugenics Exhibition Poster
This poster from a eugenics exhibition in the 1930s reads, “Sterilization is Liberation, Not a Punishment.” Three handicapped children are also pictured with the caption, “Who would want to be responsible for this?”
Nazi Propaganda Newspaper
An issue of the antisemitic propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer (The Attacker) is posted on the sidewalk in Worms, Germany, in 1935.
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937
Outraged by reports and photos of the German Air Force's bombing of civilians during the Spanish Civil War, Pablo Picasso painted Guernica after the town that was destroyed.
Philipp Veit, Germania, 1848
Germania, painted by Philipp Veit in 1848, was a symbol of the German nation during the revolutions of 1848–49 and in later years.
Little Things Are Big
Puerto Rican writer Jesús Colón describes a time when his awareness of stereotypes influenced his decision-making.
Little Things Are Big (en español)
Puerto Rican writer Jesús Colón describes a time when his awareness of stereotypes influenced his decision-making. This resource is in Spanish.
Robert and Inge Smallbones
Candid photo of Robert and Inge Smallbones, who helped Jews escape the Holocaust.
Sighet before World War II
This illustration shows Elie Wiesel’s hometown in Romania before World War II.
Students at Kheyder
Students sitting at a traditional Jewish religious school, or kheyder, in 1920s Sighet.
"Kristallnacht": The November 1938 Pogroms
Scholars discuss the events of Kristallnacht, a series of violent attacks against Jews in Germany, Austria, and part of Czechoslovakia in November, 1938.