Popular Memorial Pages, 141-160

• Night of the Long Knives

  by bgill and others can contribute.

  Updated 19 Nov 2011 - 131 views this week (4,494 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 51 stories

• Voyage of an Italian

  This Ethnic History Paper, written in 2004, was done by my niece when she attended a college in northern Illinois. Her grandmother is Italian and my niece…

  by Carol L _whitedaisy

  Updated 15 Sep 2008 - 131 views this week (9,983 total)

  Contributions 1 comment, 1 story

• Ohrdruf Concentration Camp

  by bgill and others can contribute.

  Created 11 Nov 2011 - 129 views this week (8,999 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 17 stories

• Davy Crockett

  He is one of my ancestry and i am trying to run my family tree back to him and further.

  by LadyDragon85385 and others can contribute.

  Updated 24 Mar 2010 - 129 views this week (10,691 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 5 stories

• Mauthausen Concentration Camp

  At the Mauthausen Concentration Camp prisoners were literally worked to death. Unlike the death camps in Poland, where huge gas chambers killed thousands…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 30 Oct 2009 - 126 views this week (13,569 total)

  Contributions 9 images, 1 comment, 1 story

• Holocaust Survivors - Their Stories ~ Page 4

  by bgill and others can contribute.

  Updated 29 Oct 2011 - 124 views this week (5,179 total)

  Contributions 1 image, 32 stories

• Chelmno Extermination Camp

  The Chelmno extermination camp was designed to kill Jews of the Lodz, Poland, ghetto. The camp was divided into two parts, the manor camp and the forest…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 02 Oct 2009 - 124 views this week (12,794 total)

  Contributions 4 images

• Westerbork Concentration Camp

  When the Nazi government began prosecuting Jews in Germany, many fled to the Netherlands for safety. To control this tide of refugees, the Dutch…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 12 Dec 2009 - 123 views this week (12,882 total)

  Contributions 6 images, 1 comment

• Nazi Germany

  After World War I, Germany faced a time of depression and political upheaval that created a favorable environment for Hitler and the Nazi Party to take…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 30 Mar 2012 - 120 views this week (21,352 total)

  Contributions 50 images, 1 story

• Harlon Block

  Iwo Jima Flag Raiser

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 14 Dec 2011 - 120 views this week (11,386 total)

  Contributions 8 images, 1 story

• Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

  Known to his people as "Thunder Traveling to the Loftier Mountain Heights."

  by bgill

  Updated 22 Jun 2007 - 119 views this week (19,218 total)

  Contributions 18 images, 17 stories

• Native & African Americans on the Oregon Trail

  The first section of the Oregon Trail bisected two major Native American tribes--the Cheyenne to the north and the Pawnee to the south. The emigrants…

  by bgill

  Updated 24 Jun 2007 - 119 views this week (14,003 total)

  Contributions 9 images, 23 stories

• North Carolina Union Volunteers

  1st and 2nd North Carolina Union Volunteers. If you have any information about the men that served in these units please consider adding it to this…

  by richardphillips

  Updated 10 Sep 2012 - 118 views this week (7,455 total)

  Contributions 49 images, 5 stories

• The Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

  John Wilkes Booth plotted and carried out the assassination of President Lincoln. Originally, the plan was to abduct President Lincoln and take him to…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 18 Sep 2011 - 118 views this week (26,161 total)

  Contributions 94 images, 1 story

• A Slave Ship Speaks

  The wreck of the Henrietta Marie

  by bgill

  Updated 10 Jul 2007 - 118 views this week (65,947 total)

  Contributions 13 images, 16 stories

• The Battle of Iwo Jima

  The Battle of Iwo Jima was supposed to take only five days according to U.S. military analysis. This invasion quickly became a killing field. Facing…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 11 Jan 2011 - 118 views this week (23,027 total)

  Contributions 21 images, 2 comments, 1 story

• The Holocaust

  Antisemitism permeated German and European society in the early 20th century. The Nazi Empire, in particular, regarded the Jewish people as a threat to…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 13 Feb 2010 - 113 views this week (16,356 total)

  Contributions 25 images, 2 comments, 1 story

• The Choctaw Indians

  The Choctaw Indians have inhabited the Mississippi region since the pre-Columbian era. The Choctaws were considered one of the “Five Civilized Tribes”…

  by Clio and others can contribute.

  Updated 20 Oct 2012 - 111 views this week (24,480 total)

  Contributions 6 images, 1 comment, 3 stories

• The Battle of Little Big Horn

  It is hard to say how many years ago the Dakota Indians of the Northern Mississippi River began to spill over the Missouri in search of game, and became…

  by bgill

  Updated 18 Jun 2007 - 111 views this week (102,048 total)

  Contributions 41 images, 2 comments, 26 stories

• Joaquin Murrieta

  Joaquin Murrieta (sometimes spelled Murieta or Murietta) (1829–ca. 1853), also called the Mexican or Chilean Robin Hood or the Robin Hood of El Dorado,…

  by bgill

  Updated 31 Jan 2011 - 110 views this week (7,376 total)

  Contributions 3 images, 2 comments, 1 story