12 Years That Shook the World

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Torn down, heartbroken, and losing hope, Zvi, Miriam and Leon face even more loss. Then in... more

The threat only grows: suspicious neighbors, ghetto massacres, and violent attacks. Miriam... more

Nazi killing squads have descended onto the shtetl, attempting to destroy all traces of Je... more

Zvi, Miriam and Leon are preparing to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, when suddenly, more armed m... more

It’s June 1941. Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union, and German soldiers arrive in Eyshi... more

It’s 1938. In Eastern Europe, life is bustling for three young Jews growing up in their vi... more

From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, welcome to 12 Years That Shook the World. This seas... more

When the Nazis boycott Jewish-owned businesses in Lorrach, Germany, Bernard Loeb’s neighbo... more

In 1943, amid the American Jim Crow era, a young Black American named Leon Bass enlists in... more

In 1931—before the Nazis come to power— radical antisemite, Wolf-Heinrich Graf von Helldor... more

In 1937, Erwin Haber, a Jewish boy from Austria, had just turned 13. But months later when... more

When Frieda Belinfante’s home country of the Netherlands is invaded by the Nazis in 1940, ... more

Explore the lives of real people, who make unexpected choices that have major impacts. In ... more

When the Germans invade the Soviet Union in 1941, three Jewish brothers prepare to fight b... more

All her life, Pauline Kneissler wanted to become a nurse. And in 1939, she is recruited by... more

Hans Scholl, his sister Sophie, and his friends at the University of Munich secretly form ... more

Kurt Gerstein, a Nazi SS officer, is asked to supply the chemical Zyklon B to the Auschwit... more

While visiting Vienna, Austria with her family in March 1938, American Helen Baker finds h... more

12 Years That Shook the World explores stories of real people, the choices they made, and ... more

From an office in Geneva, Switzerland, two friends—a Jewish businessman and the Salvadoran... more

“We are in the presence of a crime without a name,” Winston Churchill said in a 1941 speec... more

Most of what we know about the Holocaust comes from Nazi perpetrator documents. One striki... more

12 Years That Shook the World explores stories of real people, the choices they made, and ... more