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Serge and Beate Klarsfeld may be called the original Nazi hunters. Long before the occupation was chronicled in slick TV or graphic novels, they devoted their lives to unmasking Nazis. We honored them with our highest honor, the Elie Wiesel award, in 2019.https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/look-inside-nazi-hunter-memoir-for-justice …

Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany #OTD in 1933. Six years later, on January 30, 1939, Hitler spoke about his foreign policy and the potential for war. He predicted that another world war would bring about the "annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe."

Anthony Acevedo, a medic in the US Army 70th Infantry Division, was among hundreds of Americans captured in January 1945 and was taken to a POW camp. In a secret diary, Acevedo kept meticulous records of life and death in the camp.https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/personal-story/anthony-acevedo?utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=otd&utm_content=tonyacevedocaptured20210130 …

The myth that Jews act as a sinister force and control the economy is a form of antisemitism, or hatred of Jews. Antisemitism is dangerous. #JewishSpaceLasers

On this day in 1943, Nazi authorities ordered all Roma residing in Nazi Germany to be deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. By the end of the war, some 23,000 Roma had been deported to Auschwitz, where at least 20,000 were murdered.https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/genocide-of-european-roma-gypsies-1939-1945?utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=otd&utm_content=deportationofromatoauschwitzbegins20210129 …

To mark #HolocaustRemembranceDay, Museum Director Sara Bloomfield joined @PaleyCenter and @ClaimsCon for a conversation on "The Media’s Role in Combating Holocaust Denial, Misinformation, and Antisemitism." Watch now:

Eight decades after the Holocaust began, people worldwide pause today—International #HolocaustRemembranceDay, the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—to honor the memory of Europe’s Jews, who were targeted for annihilation. Join us today as #WeRemember.

The Germans established the Auschwitz camp complex in the spring of 1940 in German-occupied Poland. By the time Soviet troops liberated the remaining prisoners in Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, approximately 1.1 million people had been murdered there. #HolocaustRemembranceDay

Today on #HolocaustRemembranceDay, at 9:30 a.m. ET, join Susan Eisenhower as #WeRemember her grandfather's efforts to preserve Holocaust truth, even as WWII waged on. He wrote of the Nazi brutality he saw: "I have never at any other time experienced an equal sense of shock."

The Nazis stole Tania Rozmaryn's youth. She survived ghettos, camps, and a death march. After liberation, with a 4th grade education, she became a teacher. “If I could do it, you certainly can achieve any goal you set for yourself.” Tania, a Museum volunteer, died last week.

“'From now on you do not answer by your name. Your name is your number.' And the delusion, the disappointment, the discouragement that I felt, like I was not a human anymore." —Lilly Appelbaum, Auschwitz survivor. #WeRemember #HolocaustRemembranceDay Photo: Yad Vashem

Dwight D. Eisenhower was shocked by what he saw at Ohrdruf concentration camp in April 1945. Bodies piled like wood, living skeletons struggling to survive. He saw another danger—that some would deny the Holocaust. On #HolocaustRemembranceDay, 1/27 at 9:30 am ET, watch live.

Each year on January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—we gather as a community to mark International #HolocaustRemembranceDay. Join us tomorrow as we honor the memory of the victims and carry forward the messages of survivors. #WeRemember

The largest of its kind, the Auschwitz camp complex was essential to carrying out the "Final Solution." Despite leaving its mark as one of the most infamous camps of the Holocaust, there are still many misconceptions about Auschwitz. #WeRememberhttps://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/auschwitz?utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=ihrd&utm_content=whatwasauschwitz20210125 …

#OTD in 1945, Nazi officials ordered surviving prisoners at Stutthof on a death march. Rywa Gordon recalled, “I was walking on roads day and night nonstop…. Many girls were ... left to die on the sides of the road. We walked like this for three weeks.”https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/stutthof?utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=otd&utm_content=deathmarchfromstutthofcamp20210125 …

After surviving #Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel arrived at Buchenwald concentration camp this week in 1945. "I held onto my father's hand—the old, familiar fear: not to lose him. Right next to us the high chimney of the crematory oven rose up. It no longer made any impression on us."