A plaque in the entrance serves as a memorial to the synagogue and to Jewish residents who were murdered during the Holocaust.

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, a Holocaust memorial, is situated to the north.

On 27 January 2011 a memorial and museum dedicated to the Holocaust victims killed using Topf ovens was opened at the former company premises in Erfurt.

42 ( 1942 ), and his memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, A Survivor from Warsaw, Op.

A memorial in the Holon cemetery in Israel to the Jews killed in concentration camps in Kalisz during the Holocaust.

In that speech, Irving used the metaphor of a cruise ship named Holocaust, which Irving claimed had "... luxury wall to wall fitted carpets and a crew of thousands … marine terminals established in now virtually every capital in the world, disguised as Holocaust memorial museums ".

Whitwell has become renowned for the Paper Clips Project, a Holocaust memorial and educational project, that was carried out by children of the local middle school starting in 1998.

* Holocaust memorial landscapes in Germany

The first memorial commemorating victims of the Romani Holocaust was erected on May 8, 1956, in the Polish village of Szczurowa commemorating the Szczurowa massacre.

Yad Vashem () is Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, established in 1953 through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset, Israel's parliament.

Yad Vashem is a complex containing the Holocaust History Museum, memorial sites such as the Children's Memorial and the Hall of Remembrance, The Museum of Holocaust Art, sculptures, outdoor commemorative sites such as the Valley of the Communities, a synagogue, archives, a research institute, library, publishing house and an educational center, The International School for Holocaust Studies.

The idea of establishing a memorial in the historical Jewish homeland for Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust was conceived during World War II, as a response to reports of the mass murder of Jews in Nazi-occupied countries.

Similar to the visit of his predecessor Pope John Paul II in 2000, Pope Benedict XVI's visit took place in the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, where he participated in a memorial ceremony, delivering an address and greeting six Holocaust survivors and one of the Righteous Among the Nations.

At the end of the Holocaust History Museum is the Hall of Names, a memorial to the 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

A version of the statement is also on display at the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, as well as the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond, Virginia, and in The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Her best known sculpture is named Die Rampe, a Holocaust memorial dated from 1980.

Rookwood also contains a number of memorial shrines including those dedicated to victims of the Holocaust and to members of the merchant marine killed in wartime.

Others, like the United States Holocaust Museum and, most importantly, the Jasenovac memorial museum in Croatia, have accepted both scientists ' estimates as realistic.

Yad Vashem, which commemorates the Holocaust, lies to the west of Mt.

* 1941 – Holocaust: German troops murder over 15, 000 Jews at Drobitsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Much of Europe lay in ruins, over 60 million people had been killed ( most of them civilians ), including approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million non-Jews in what became known as the Holocaust.

" It was only after the establishment of " the Holocaust industry ", he suggests, that outpourings of anguish over the plight of the Jews in World War II began.

It is filled with precisely the kind of shrill hyperbole that Finkelstein rightly deplores in much of the current media hype over the Holocaust ; it is brimming with the same indifference to historical facts, inner contradictions, strident politics and dubious contextualizations ; and it oozes with the same smug sense of moral and intellectual superiority.

In the 1950s, " a spiritual and cultural revival washed over American Jewry " in response to the trauma of the Holocaust.

* 1941 – The Holocaust: In the Kaunas Ghetto over 10, 000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the " Great Action ".

* 1942 – The Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.

Of a total population of over half a million Jews before World War II, about half were killed during the Holocaust.

It has also been claimed that Cannibal Holocaust is banned in over 50 countries, although this has never been verified.

Marked by significant events involving the mass death of civilians, including the Holocaust and the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare, it resulted in 50 million to over 70 million fatalities.

< imagemap > File: 1940s decade montage. png | Above title bar: events during World War II ( 1939 – 1945 ): From left to right: Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching " Omaha " Beach on " D-Day "; Adolf Hitler visits Paris, soon after the Battle of France ; The Holocaust occurred during the war as Nazi Germany carried out a programme of systematic state-sponsored genocide, during which approximately six million European Jews were killed ; The Japanese attack on the American naval base of Pearl Harbor launches the United States into the war ; An Observer Corps spotter scans the skies of London during the Battle of Britain ; The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the first uses of nuclear weapons, killing over a quarter million people and leading to the Japanese surrender ; Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government, on board USS Missouri, effectively ending the war.

* October 29 – Holocaust: In the United Kingdom, leading clergymen and political figures hold a public meeting to register outrage over Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews.

* September 6 – Holocaust: The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word " Jew " inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.

He is credited with saving over 1, 100 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, which were located in what is now Poland and the Czech Republic respectively.

Since taking over, Weber has continued to publish writing on the Holocaust and on World War II and has pushed to broaden the institute's mandate.

" In it he noted that Holocaust denial had attracted little support over the years: " It ’ s gotten some support in Iran, or places like that, but as far as I know, there is no history department supporting writing by these folks.

All the same, the IHR has over the years published detailed books and numerous probing essays that call into question aspects of the orthodox Holocaust extermination story, and highlight specific Holocaust exaggerations and falsehoods.

Robert Harris, in his book Selling Hitler, suggested that an additional reason for Irving's change of mind over the authenticity of the alleged Hitler diaries was that the fake diaries contain no reference to the Holocaust, thereby buttressing Irving's claim in Hitler's War that Hitler had no knowledge of it.

In 1992, Irving stated that "... the Jews are very foolish not to abandon the gas chamber theory while they still have time " and claimed he " foresees a new wave of antisemitism " the world over due to Jewish " exploitation of the Holocaust myth ".

To those who argued that the Holocaust disproves the existence of God or His providence over our lives, Schneerson wrote:

In 1998 he took over the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, in which position he fought against the Swiss government contributing any money to the $ 1. 25 billion settlement between Swiss banks and Holocaust survivors.

In January 2009, during the Gaza War, Kaufman gave a speech to the House of Commons where he stated: " The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the continuing guilt from Gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.

Thus, the latter museum, whose walls are lined with plaques memorializing over 2, 000 Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust, portrays the Holocaust as a continuation of the " death and destruction " that plagued Jewish communities throughout Jewish history.