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the 2007 drama The Memory Thief made use of interview footage of actual Holocaust survivors?
renowned Holocaust scholar Robert Jan van Pelt says that the first Holocaust deniers were the Nazis themselves?
pianist and composer Moshe Cotel chose to become a rabbi after meeting a Holocaust survivor who was so inspired by his retelling of the story of Alfred Dreyfus that she had returned to Judaism ?
the Paper Clips Project of a small school in Tennessee received over 30 million paperclips from all over the world to honor the victims of the Holocaust ?
the Związek Organizacji Wojskowej , a Polish resistance group inside the Auschwitz concentration camp , provided the first intelligence about the Holocaust to the Western Allies ?
the president of Żegota , Julian Grobelny , was famous for saving Jewish children from the Holocaust by entering the Warsaw Ghetto from the Aryan side and walking out with them?
the family of Józef and Wiktoria Ulma (pictured) , Polish Righteous among the Nations from Markowa , was summarily executed for rescuing their Jewish countrymen during the Holocaust ?
the author of the best-selling book Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years , who claimed to be a Holocaust survivor, admitted her memoir was a hoax ?
during the Holocaust , Capuchin friar Père Marie-Benoît created fake passports and baptism certificates in order to smuggle hundreds of Jews out of Southern France ?
because of the Albanian Muslim concept of Besa , Albanians saved about 2000 Jews from the Holocaust during World War II ?
1 SS Infantry Brigade took part in numerous anti-partisan operations and the Holocaust ?
Polish resistance member Zofia Baniecka and her mother hid over fifty Jews in their Warsaw apartment during the Holocaust between 1941 and 1944?
Holocaust survivor Otto Eisler designed the only remaining synagogue in Brno ?
Abraham Blum , a Bundist participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising , was murdered by the Gestapo , but his wife Luba Blum-Bielicka , a nurse, survived the Holocaust and ran an orphanage in post war Poland ?
Czesława Kwoka , a Polish Catholic child victim of the Holocaust , was the subject of a 2007 award-winning mixed-media presentation?
Samson was made by Academy Award winning Polish director Andrzej Wajda and blends the Biblical tale of Samson with his Holocaust coming-of-age story?
Wilhelm Koppe , one of the chief Nazi Holocaust perpetrators in occupied Poland , escaped arrest and under false name managed a Bonn chocolate factory for over a decade?
Rose Van Thyn , a survivor of Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck , became a leading figure in Holocaust education in her adopted city of Shreveport , Louisiana ?
Groucho Marx wanted to play the title role of an embittered Holocaust survivor in the 1964 film The Pawnbroker ?
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