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  • The Cherokee Trail of Tears

    The forced relocation of American Indians began with the Indian Removal Act of 1830. In 1838 the Cherokee Indians became the fifth major tribe to…

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    Updated 13 May 2013 - 1,071 views this week (173,123 total)

    Contributions 12 images, 10 comments, 4 stories

  • Auschwitz Concentration Camp

    No other Nazi concentration camp is as well known for the atrocities committed within than the Auschwitz-Bikenau camp. Auschwitz and its two other main…

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    Updated 18 Jan 2011 - 498 views this week (39,358 total)

    Contributions 16 images, 1 comment, 3 stories

  • Anne Frank

    Anne Frank is probably the best-known victim of the Holocaust. As a young child, her family fled Germany for the Netherlands to escape the escalating…

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    Updated 02 Apr 2013 - 449 views this week (32,709 total)

    Contributions 7 images, 3 comments

  • Buchenwald Concentration Camp

    The Buchenwald concentration camp was one of the largest camp systems in Germany. Until the end of 1943, only men were imprisoned in the camp complex.…

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    Updated 29 Dec 2009 - 411 views this week (29,276 total)

    Contributions 11 images, 1 story

  • Belzec Extermination Camp

    The Belzec extermination camp was the first killing center of Operation Reinhard—the plan to murder Polish Jews in the German-occupied portions of…

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    Updated 20 Mar 2013 - 382 views this week (17,463 total)

    Contributions 5 images

  • Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp

    Bergen-Belsen began as a prison camp for captured prisoners of war. It was not like Auschwitz where numerous gas chambers killed thousands everyday. But…

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    Updated 09 Feb 2010 - 377 views this week (34,884 total)

    Contributions 12 images, 2 stories

  • Treblinka Extermination Camp

    The Treblinka Extermination Camp was divided into two sections. The first section, Treblinka I, was designed as a labor camp and receiving center. The…

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    Created 24 Aug 2009 - 363 views this week (24,643 total)

    Contributions 4 images, 1 story

  • Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Laura Ingalls Wilder was raised on the American frontier. Her father Charles acquired a homestead in the American back-country that later inspired Laura…

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    Updated 15 Jun 2012 - 357 views this week (56,903 total)

    Contributions 6 images, 1 comment

  • The Prohibition Era, 1919-1933

    Prohibition began with temperance movements throughout the United States before the Civil War. Alcohol consumption had become closely related with poverty…

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    Updated 06 Apr 2012 - 341 views this week (74,457 total)

    Contributions 28 images, 1 comment, 2 stories

  • Japan in World War II

    During the 1930s and through World War II, the Japanese military controlled the government of Japan. Unlike Germany and Italy, Japan did not have a…

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    Updated 25 Feb 2009 - 338 views this week (33,339 total)

    Contributions 55 images, 1 story

  • Bonnie & Clyde

    Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow met in 1930 and formed one of the greatest crime duos in American history. Their crime spree lasted for two years, and by…

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    Updated 06 Feb 2012 - 324 views this week (59,213 total)

    Contributions 19 images, 2 comments, 1 story

  • Kristallnacht—The Night of Broken Glass

    On the night of November 9, 1938, Nazi Storm Troopers and German citizens launched a massive, government-coordinated attack on Jews throughout Germany.…

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    Updated 03 May 2011 - 297 views this week (49,511 total)

    Contributions 90 images, 1 story

  • 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…

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    Updated 02 Oct 2009 - 276 views this week (12,710 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…

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    Updated 12 Dec 2009 - 270 views this week (12,805 total)

    Contributions 6 images, 1 comment

  • Dachau Concentration Camp

    The Dachau Concentration Camp was the first Nazi camp created for political prisoners, Jews, and other so-called undesirables. At first, Dachau housed…

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    Updated 22 Mar 2013 - 265 views this week (17,328 total)

    Contributions 18 images, 3 comments, 2 stories

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    The attack that took place on December 7, 1941, at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, became the most shocking military defeat in U.S. history…

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    Updated 08 Dec 2010 - 264 views this week (43,474 total)

    Contributions 31 images, 2 comments, 3 stories

  • Oskar Schindler

    Oskar Schindler was not a perfect man, but he will be remembered for his selfless service to the Jews he saved during the Nazi Holocaust. Before the war,…

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    Created 31 Aug 2009 - 262 views this week (29,230 total)

    Contributions 5 images, 1 story

  • Majdanek Concentration Camp

    The Majdanek concentration camp was not designed as an extermination camp, but during its operation, tens of thousands of Jews were killed in gas…

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    Created 14 Aug 2009 - 258 views this week (11,872 total)

    Contributions 7 images, 1 story

  • 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…

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    Updated 30 Oct 2009 - 258 views this week (13,498 total)

    Contributions 9 images, 1 comment, 1 story

  • Janowska Concentration Camp

    The Janowska concentration camp began as a factory on Janowska Street in Lvov, Poland. In October 1941, this factory became a camp when the SS established…

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    Created 25 Aug 2009 - 253 views this week (11,138 total)

    Contributions 2 images

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