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We Remember the Holocaust chronicles the Holocaust in the voices of those who survived it. They tell us about Jewish life in Europe before the 1930s and about the violence of Hitler's rise to power. They describe the humiliations of Nazi rule, the struggle to keep families together, the fight for survival in the ghettos, the ultimate horror of the concentration camps.With its moving first-person voices and original photographs from private collections, We Remember the Holocaust is an intensely personal contribution to the history of a period that must never be forgotten.

Much of what occurred during the dark years 1933 to 1945 seems too horrible to imagine. Atrocities were large scale and commonplace, especially after the beginning of the Second World War. While Allied and Axis soldiers fought on battlefields, the Nazis waged a war against unarmed people. They killed Russian prisoners of war, Communists, Gypsies, homosexuals, Serbs, cripples, Jehovah's Witnesses, the mentally ill, and beggars. And they killed Jews, an estimated six million Jews. The Nazis planned the total destruction of the Jewish people. The murder of these Jews became the Holocaust.

We Remember the Holocaust chronicles the Holocaust in the voices of those who survived it. They tell us about Jewish life in Europe before the 1930s and about the violence of Hitler's rise to power. They describe the humiliations of Nazi rule, the struggle to keep families together, the fight for survival in the ghettos, the ultimate horror of the concentration camps.With its moving first-person voices and original photographs from private collections, We Remember the Holocaust is an intensely personal contribution to the history of a period that must never be forgotten.