Tag Archive for ‘holocaust’
TODAY IN HISTORY: NAZI GERMANY INVADES POLAND
WHAT: 70 Years ago today, World War II began. Hitler’s German Army overran an almost defenseless Poland. The war that ravaged Europe and would eventually spread around the world was now underway. WHO: Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany had absorbed Austria in the Anschluss (annexation) in March 1938. Then Hitler demanded the return of the German [...]
REMEMBERING ANNE FRANK
Anne Frank would have been eighty years old today. This anniversary of her birthday seems especially poignant in light of the deadly shooting of a security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. on June 10, 2009. On June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was born in Germany. On her thirteenth birthday in 1942, she [...]
