Two weeks before the Olympics began, German officials informed Jewish athlete Gretel Bergmann that she was denied a place on the team, although she had equaled the German women's record in the high ...

The stories that haunt me are, when we went finally to Srebrenica, and saw these people. I mean, these civilians, who were part of Europe, where there was once the Olympic Games, living like animals, ...

"Diaries and Testimonies of the Holocaust in Eastern Galicia" For his J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Senior Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, Dr. Bartov conducted research on “Diaries and Testimonies of ...

Vladimir Solonari received a Ph.D. in history at Moscow State University in Russia and a B.A. cum laude in history at Moldova State University in Chisinau. During his tenure at the Museum, he was ...

1. The British Policy of Appeasement toward Hitler and Nazi Germany He repeatedly issued public warnings about the dangers Hitler and fascism posed to Britain ... to war. Others warned that Hitler ...

Milton Green (left), captain of the Harvard University track team, took first place in the 110-meter high hurdles in regional pre-Olympic trials. His teammate, Norman Cahners, also Jewish, qualified ...

As a token gesture to mollify the West, German authorities allowed the half-Jewish fencer Helene Mayer to represent Germany in Berlin. She had been studying at Mills College in California. No other ...