David Olere. Gassing. 131x162 cm, A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, New York.
The HolocaustThe libraries at Palm Beach State College have many resources to help you understand the atrocities of the Holocaust.
The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community.
During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.
Join guest scholar Deborah Lipstadt, author of History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving, Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory, and Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust.
Holocaust Remembrance lectures will take place at the Eissey Campus Theatre on March 31st, 2011. More information will be coming soon.
This guide was created by
Susan Setterlund.
Contact Info:
LL 118
Palm Beach Gardens Campus
561.207.5824
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