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Presentation of genocide

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—Ann, The Foundation for the Genocide Education

We had a piece of cloth, yellow cloth, with a Magen David and a Ž, which meant Židov, Jew, printed on this cloth.

—Account by Joseph Markovic, Croatian Jewish survivor, on the anti-Jewish measures taken by the Croatian government after German armed forces invaded the country. Source: Montreal Holocaust Museum

I saw three men with the leather coats, you know, the Gestapo, breaking the gate, coming up to get my father.

—Account by Leo Dortort, Austrian Jewish survivor, about Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. Source: Montreal Holocaust Museum

Image. Dutch Jews wearing prison uniforms marked with a yellow star and the letter "N," for the Netherlands, stand in rows during a roll call at the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1941. Credit: U.S. National Archives.

Image. Street propaganda of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), 1944. Children perform the Hitler salute. NSB propaganda went to great lengths to win over the youth. Credit: U.S. National Archives.

Image. Civilians arrested by Nazi soldiers during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland in 1943. Credit: U.S. National Archives.