Year: 2023

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Remembering Dr. Guy Stern, Holocaust Survivor and Ritchie Boys Hero

REFLECTING ON THE LEGACY OF DR. STERN Dr. Guy Stern, the Director of our International Institute of the Righteous, has passed away at age 101. He would have celebrated his…

The Existential Threat to the LGBTQ+ Community in Nazi Germany

By Ashley Koch, Museum Educator at The HC A COMMUNITY EMERGES The roots of the modern LGBTQ+ movement lie in Germany, where a community of self-conscious and openly gay men…

Remembering My Grandfather on the Anniversary of the Liberation of Bergen-Belsen

By Hannah Mills, Education Associate at The HC – On April 15, 2023, we marked the 78th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, a concentration camp located in Lower Saxony…

Afro-Germans and the Holocaust

By Joshua Wilson, Museum Educator at The HC – During Black History Month, we want to honor the memories of Black people who lived through the violent and hateful ideology…