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captures the global war. This photograph features Himmler and other Nazi officers observing detainees and prisoners of war during World War II. Himmler, one of the leading members of the Nazi party, is visiting the Shirokaya Street Concentration Camp in Minsk, Belarus during an inspection tour of the facility. I picked this picture because my roommate was watching a WW2 documentary and it was one of the pictures that popped up. In the image, you can primarily see officers and

In Nazi Germany, women played a crucial role in expanding the Nazi ideology in Eastern Europe. Women who were sent to Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe were called “Hitler’s Furies”, and were seen as “`racist motherliness': the women were urged to devote themselves selflessly to their German charges while banishing from their minds any sympathy for the non-German population.” This indoctrination was not always involuntary, many women of the time felt empowered at a time when many of these women were

father is Belarusian. Alexievich grew up in Belarus. After she finished school she worked as a reporter in multiple local newspapers before she graduated from Belarusian State University and became a correspondent for the literary magazine Neman in Minsk. Her books are described as a literary chronicle of the emotional history of the Soviet and post-Soviet individual, as told by means of a carefully constructed collage of interviews. According to writer and critic Dmitry Bykov, her

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He chose to focus his work on anti-Nazi Jewish resistance during the Holocaust in the ghettos of Minsk, Krakow, and Bialystok. He considers this selection of these ghettos with “similar size, subject to the same genocidal policy, and inhabited by members of the same ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups” to be a forte (339), since it allowed for

pril 27, 1941 - Greece surrenders to the Nazis. May 1, 1941 - German attack on Tobruk is repulsed. May 10, 1941 - Deputy Führer Rudolph Hess flies to Scotland. See also: The History Place - Biography of Rudolph Hess May 10/11 - Heavy German bombing of London; British bomb Hamburg. May 15, 1941 - Operation Brevity begins (the British counter-attack in Egypt). May 24, 1941 - Sinking of the British ship Hood by the Bismarck. May 27, 1941 - Sinking of the Bismarck by the British Navy. June 4

Units carried out precision hit and run attacks, espionage, revolutions, and rescue and aid for the Jews. One such revolt occurred in a newly established ghetto in Minsk, Belarus, July 20th 1941. Upon construction of the ghetto, thousands of Jews were being killed daily. Resistance members founded a printing press and newspaper to distribute what they knew of the Nazi’s works, and contact resistance outside the ghetto

Esma Voloder began her journey by winning Miss Teen Australia at the age of 16 in 2008-2009 and has since developed her profile in the fashion and beauty industry and has affiliated her name and ambassador roles with charities such as the Bully Zero Australia Foundation and Variety the Children’s Charity. While focusing mainly on completing Social Science/Psychology degree and charity ambassadorship works, Esma has also worked within the field of Modeling, Beauty Pageants, Commercials, Music Videos

As a child his parent aspired for him to become scientist. Because of that Richard Feynman's was a successful physicist in his adult life. Richards father (Melville Feynman) had a Jewish family. He came to the United States when he was five from Minsk, Belarus. “He was a businessman who tried, not to successfully, many different types of business” (JOC/EFR, April 2002) He was a man of science but choose to go into business. Likewise, Richards' mom (Lucille Phillips) was born into a Jewish family

successes. By the 17th day Army Group Centre had taken over 300,000 prisoners, destroyed over 2,000 Soviet tanks, 1400 artillery pieces, and decimated Soviet aircraft, mostly while they were still on the ground. This was achieved during the drive towards Minsk and Smolensk, preparatory to destroying the Soviet armies facing them in giant