Tag Archives: Holocaust

Virtual museum about Holocaust and WWII resistance movements

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Gail Dever

Friday, January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, designated by the United Nations in 2005. It commemorates the genocide that resulted in the death of an estimated 6 million Jewish people, 200,000 Romani people, 250,000 mentally and physically disabled people, … Continue reading →

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Online database of Holocaust victims hits 1 million records

Posted on April 11, 2016 by Gail Dever

Thanks to more than 3,500 volunteers from 18 different countries, an online database of Holocaust victims hit one million records this month. The volunteers indexed documents, archived at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, into online software provided by Ancestry.com. … Continue reading →

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AGO launches digital archive of more than 4,000 Holocaust images

Posted on August 30, 2015 by Gail Dever

The Art Gallery of Ontario recently launched an interactive digital archive of more than 4,000 rarely seen Holocaust images to mark the 70th anniversary of the physical unearthing of photographer Henryk Ross’s negatives from Poland’s Lodz Ghetto. The following are … Continue reading →

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New documentary about Auschwitz premièred this week

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Gail Dever

A new 15-minute documentary, Auschwitz, had its première earlier this week in the prescence of 300 Holocaust survivors at the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Oświęcim, … Continue reading →

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This week’s crème de la crème — November 15, 2014

Posted on November 15, 2014 by Gail Dever

Some of the bijoux I discovered this week. Blogs Remembrance Day — Honour Roll by Dianne Nolin on Genealogy: Beyond the BMD. Généalogie et archives Saint-Laurent has Moved to the Cornwall (Ontario) Public Library by Dick Eastman on Eastman’s Online … Continue reading →

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