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Holocaust Research & Remembrance

Links and electronic resources to primary and secondary sources to support research about the Holocaust

Holocaust as Genocide

Genocide:

According to the United Nations' Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, genocide is defined as:

Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

The word genocide was created by Raphäel Lemkin in his 1944 book Axis Rule in Occupied Europe to describe the Nazi's systematic murder of Jewish people and similar acts that had occurred historically. The word genocide is made of the Greek prefix genos, which means race or tribe, and the Latin suffix cide, meaning killing.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Events

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum hosts virtual events throughout the year. Check out their website by clicking the above link for more information about upcoming events.

From the Clark Archives and Special Collections

The above newspaper headlines and articles are from a two-volume oversized manuscript collection available by request of OS 81 Colonel H. Ross Collins from Clark Archives and Special Collections.

Days of Remembrance

Yom HaShoah- 27th day of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar

Yom HaShoah is the Jewish community's Holocaust commemoration day. It began in 1953 as a day for Israelis to remember those murdered during the Holocaust. It marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Typically this day falls in April or May of the Gregorian Calendar.

Holocaust Memorial Day- 27 January

Holocaust Memorial Day was adopted by the United Nations' General Assembly in November 2005 as an international day of remembrance in memory of the victims of the Holocaust . The date marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945.