The Holocaust Museum’s research updates a longstanding assumption that all Americans were unaware of the genocide taking place until the war had ended. These pieces include newswire stories and opinion pieces that touch on wartime political conflicts and battles over how to handle the massive wave of displaced refugees. The Post-Gazette will be highlighting articles from our archives that ran between March 1933 and April 1945. Selections from the “History Unfolded” findings are being woven into a special exhibition that opened April 23, coinciding with the Museum’s 25th anniversary. To date, nearly 2,500 people from across the country have contributed to “History Unfolded”, which now features more than 15,500 article clippings. Local news outlets, like the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, have contributed to this new resource and are re-publishing articles revealing what information was available to Americans about the rise of Nazism and the persecution of Jews. (Associated Press)įor the past two years, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has embarked on an effort to engage citizen historians and students throughout the country with a crowdsourcing project called “History Unfolded,” which seeks to explain how American newspapers reported on events surrounding the Holocaust. Share on Twitter The Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, Germany on April 11, 1949.
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