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Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah’s Witnesses are a Christian denomination. Believers don’t follow national governments, meaning they won’t salute flags, sing nationalistic songs, take part in politics or serve in the military.

Polish and Slavic citizens and POWs

The Nazis viewed Poles and other Slavic peoples (people from countries including Russia, for example) as inferior, and used them for forced labour. Poles who were considered ideologically dangerous (including thousands of intellectuals and Catholic priests) were targeted for execution in an operation known as AB-Aktion.

HMDT Blog: Srebrenica Memorial Day: Identifying Bosnia's missing thousands

HMDT Blog: Srebrenica Memorial Day: Identifying Bosnia's missing thousands

Adam Boys, Director of International Programs at the International Commission on Missing Persons, has worked in Bosnia since 1994 and to mark Srebrenica Memorial Day discusses his organisation’s difficult work to identify the remains of the Bosnian War’s missing dead and their surviving families.

HMDT Blog: Auschwitz-Birkenau's Gypsy Family Camp

HMDT Blog: Auschwitz-Birkenau's Gypsy Family Camp

During this year’s Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, historian Rainer Schulze reminds us of the systematic persecution the Roma and Sinti suffered during the period of Nazi rule in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe.