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International Holocaust Remembrance Day

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The purpose of International Holocaust Remembrance Day is to serve as a date for the official commemoration of the victims of the Nazi regime and to promote Holocaust education. We here at the Unwritten Record wanted to share past blogs about the Holocaust in an effort to help promote education on the topic. Army courts.

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Preservica - 2022 highlights & momentum looking ahead

Preservica

From academic institutions and government agencies to corporate businesses and the health sector, 2022 was full of world events that will shape our history forever. Preserving our digital memory is the backbone of how we educate ourselves, advocate for change, and support each other and our institutions for future generations to come.

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306-NT: Photographic File of the Paris Bureau of the New York Times, ca. 1900–ca. 1950

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In December 1940, the Paris Bureau of the New York Times was seized by the Nazis and its Library of New Photos was transported to Berlin. The photographs that make up 306-NT were originally part of the New York Times photo morgue for the Paris Bureau of the newspaper. It operated until its closing in 1950.

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Remembering Vietnam

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The exhibit examines 12 critical episodes in the Vietnam War to provide a framework for understanding the decisions that led to war, events and consequences of the war, and its legacy. O’Brien Family, Pritzker Military Museum & Library, AARP, FedEx Corporation, and the National Archives Foundation. and HISTORYⓇ.

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Introducing Films of State, a Conference on Government Films

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In addition to the academic sessions, we’ll have an evening screening with films and clips related to the presentations and a panel on the practical uses of government film, from its role as historical evidence to reuse by educators and television documentaries. Moving Images and the Military. Government and the People.

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The Production File Tells the Story: How “Death Mills” Came to U.S. Audiences

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Signal Corps cameramen recorded the conditions, the dead, and the survivors at Dachau and other liberated camps as a record of events, for troop education, use in war crimes trials , and for other educational purposes. This post documents the creation and dissemination of the edited film, Death Mills (1946).

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“WNYC Mobilizes For Harlem Emergency”

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Mayor La Guardia with educator Dr. Max Yergan and union leader Ferdinand Smith near the scene of disorder, August 2, 1943. And the imposed sacrifices of domestic wartime rationing to support America’s military –a military intent on keeping in step with Jim Crow segregation, was more salt in the wound.