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On 24 July 1944, Soviet forces arrived at Majdanek Concentration and Death Camp in Eastern Poland. The camp was the first major concentration camp to be liberated from Nazi control, and Soviet officials invited journalists to see the horrors of Nazi oppression.
On 16 and 17 July 1942, a raid and mass arrest was carried out in Paris by French police. 13,152 Jewish men, women and children were detained. Most of the captives in Paris were taken to the Vélodrome d’Hiver (Vel d’Hiv) in the 15th Arrondissement of Paris, near the Eiffel Tower.
The Wiener Library have kindly provided photographs from the Holocaust which you can use. Here you will find images relating to life in the camps.
The Wiener Library have kindly provided photographs from the Holocaust which you can use. Here you will find images relating to the Kindertransport and refugees.
The Wiener Library have kindly provided photographs from the Holocaust which you can use. Here you will find images relating to ghettos and deportation.
Bill Hunt and Sophie Harrison have kindly provided photographs from the Holocaust which you can use. Here you will find images relating to the camps.
On 30 June 1940, the Nazis began their invasion of the Channel Islands – a group of British Crown dependency islands off the coast of France. This was the result of the German invasion of Western Europe. From May 1940, Nazi troops had been moving west. They captured Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and France in quick succession, with Paris falling to the Germans on 14 June 1940.
On 24 June 1900, Raphael Lemkin – the man who coined the word ‘genocide’ – was born. Lemkin was saddened by massacres of the past and his own family were murdered during the Holocaust. He dedicated his life to getting genocide recognised as a crime by nations across the world.
On 23 June 1944 the International Red Cross sent a delegation to inspect Theresienstadt Concentration Camp (often referred to as Terezin). The Nazis made temporary improvements to the camp to give the visitors a positive impression, and continued with deportations soon afterwards.
Each year on 20 June, the world celebrates World Refugee Day. This day recognises and celebrates the contribution of refugees to society across the world.