The ceremony at the US Capitol, featuring a candle-lighting and names reading, is happening now. Join us right now to watch a live interview with a survivor, followed by a question-and-answer session. The Museum's commemoration ceremony, including remarks by the German ambassador and a Holocaust survivor, is happening now.
What is Genocide? Key Videos Podcasts and Audio. Find out more about how they will support our work. Between and , six million Jewish men, women and children were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. Their attempt to murder all the Jews in Europe, shook the foundations of civilisation.
From to , the Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, imposed an extremist programme to reconstruct Cambodia. Millions of people died through starvation, disease and exhaustion, and thousands were executed. In a violent outpouring in , approximately one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered in just days in the Genocide in Rwanda.
In a civil war began in the region of Darfur. Arab militia, known as the Janjaweed attacked black African people, destroying entire villages, murdering civilians and displacing many more. The observance ends the evening of Thursday, April 8. The National Archives is home to millions of records created or received by the U. Government during and after World War II that document Nazi war crimes, wartime refugee issues, and activities and investigations of government agencies involved in the identification and recovery of looted assets including gold, art, and cultural property.
The Holocaust-Era Assets web pages are a valuable resource of the records related to looting, locating, recovering, and restituting Holocaust-Era assets.
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