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The Museum of the Holocaust - Museo del Holocausto in Guatemala city is the first museum of the Holocaust in Central America. [1]
The museum opened in 2016. It currently has a temporary exhibition about the Holocaust by bullets perpetrated by the Einsatzgruppen. The exhibition is presented by the organization Yahad -In Unum. [2]
The museum is aiming to educate new generations about the genocide perpetrated against the Jews, the mass executions and persecutions against the Roma as well as other victims of the Second World War.
The Iași pogrom was a series of pogroms launched by governmental forces under Marshal Ion Antonescu in the Romanian city of Iași against its Jewish community, which lasted from 29 June to 6 July 1941. According to Romanian authorities, over 13,266 people, or one third of the Jewish population, were massacred in the pogrom itself or in its aftermath, and many were deported. It was one of the worst pogroms during World War II.
Rava-Ruska is a city in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, western Ukraine. It is a border town between Ukraine and Poland. The border checkpoint is situated 8 km (5 mi) west of the city, along the international autoroute Warsaw–Lviv. Rava-Ruska hosts the administration of Rava-Ruska urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is approximately 8,494.
Plateliai is a town in Samogitia, Lithuania. It is situated on the west bank of Lake Plateliai, the largest lake in Samogitia. The town with the population of about 1,100 people is the center of an elderate in Plungė district municipality. It is the administrative center of the Žemaitija National Park. The town is popular resort in Samogitia and attracts many tourists.
Dobrush is a town in Gomel Region, Belarus. It is located on the Iput River. It serves as the administrative center of Dobrush District. As of 2023, it has a population of 18,137. Dobrush is first mentioned in 1335.
Pabradė is a town in Lithuania, in Švenčionys district municipality, on Žeimena river, 38 km south-west of Švenčionys.
Medenychi is an urban-type settlement in Drohobych Raion (district) of Lviv Oblast (region) in Western Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Medenychi settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: 3,292 . Local government is administered by Medenychi village council.
Patrick Desbois is a French Roman Catholic priest, former head of the Commission for Relations with Judaism of the French Bishops' Conference and consultant to the Vatican. He is the founder of the Yahad-In Unum, an organization dedicated to locating the sites of mass graves of Jewish victims of the Nazi mobile-killing units in the former Soviet Union. He received the Légion d'honneur, France's highest honor and the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Germany's highest honor for his work with Yahad-In Unum documenting the Holocaust in Eastern Europe.
Israel Singer was secretary general of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) from 1986 to 2007.
Dubienka is a village in Chełm County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine on the Bug River. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Dubienka. It lies approximately 31 kilometres (19 mi) east of Chełm and 95 km (59 mi) east of the regional capital Lublin.
Zubole is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Trzcianne, within Mońki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) north-west of Trzcianne, 11 km (7 mi) south-west of Mońki, and 43 km (27 mi) north-west of the regional capital Białystok.
Rząśnik is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Stary Lubotyń, within Ostrów Mazowiecka County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland.
Yahad - In Unum (YIU) is a French organization founded to locate the sites of mass graves of Jewish victims of the Nazi mobile killing units, especially the Einsatzgruppen, in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania and Moldova. It was founded in Paris in 2004 by leaders in the French Roman Catholic and Jewish communities. YIU is led by Father Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest whose grandfather was a French soldier deported to the Nazi prison camp Rava-Ruska, located in a Ukrainian town that borders Poland. Its United States fundraising branch is known as the American Friends of Yahad - In Unum.
Bazilionai is a small town in Šiauliai County in northern-central Lithuania. It is situated on the bank of the Dubysa River about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) of the road connecting Šiauliai with Sovetsk. As of 2011, the estimated population was 390.
Viduklė is a small town in a Raseiniai district municipality, Kaunas County, central-western Lithuania. In 2011, it had a population of 1,678.
Dovbysh is an urban-type settlement in Zviahel Raion, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine. The settlement was also known as Marchlewsk after the Polish-born Soviet politician and civil activist Julian Marchlewski. Population: 4,071
Vysotsk is a village in western Ukraine, in Sarny Raion of Rivne Oblast, but was formerly administered within Dubrovytsia Raion. As of the year 2001, the community had 2235 residents. The postal code is 34111, and the KOATUU code is 5621882001.
Holowczyn, also spelled Holovchin or Golovchin, is a village in Byalynichy District, Mogilev Region, Belarus.
Boremel is a village in the Dubno Raion in Rivne Oblast in western Ukraine, but was formerly administered within Demydivka Raion. The population is 866 inhabitants.
Padubysis is a village in the Kelmė District Municipality in Lithuania.
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