Testimonies - History Lab https://historylab.es Tue, 10 Jan 2023 13:37:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Testimonies - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Voices of the Holocaust https://historylab.es/voices-of-the-holocaust/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=voices-of-the-holocaust Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:42:29 +0000 https://historylab.es/voices-of-the-holocaust/ Oral history testimonies gathered from Jewish men and women who came to live in Britain during or after WWII

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]]> During the 1930s and 40s, the Nazis and their collaborators murdered six million Jews. Hitler’s intention was to destroy all Jewish communities, and to build a ‘master race’ of Aryans. Many other ‘non-aryans’ were persecuted including Romanies, homosexuals, and the disabled, as well as those who were politically opposed to the Nazis. This terrible moment in history is now known as the Holocaust. It remains one of the most horrific examples in recent European history of indifference, inhumanity, prejudice and genocide.

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