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What is the Holocaust? From the Nazi Take-Over in 1933 until mid-1941

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Before we begin to read and discuss our first poems on the Holocaust, we present, in the next two steps, two parts of a video prepared by Yad Vashem, with a short and concise historical overview of the Holocaust.

As you see in the heading, the video in this step will take us up to the German invasion of the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941.

How do you think the developments we have just seen affected the Jews of the countries invaded?

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