The Klarsfelds stopped looking for Nazis themselves after a trial in absentia of Alois Brunner in 2001 in Paris, which they had pressed for and in which they presented evidence.
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He refused to express open hatred for the Nazis, and for years would not talk about the ghetto uprising.
That was enough for the Nazis to declare the whole family Jewish and deprive them of any rights, Goodman said.
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Bob Le Sueur helped escaping Russian prisoners of war and will be at the Jersey Slave Workers Memorial to remember the thousands of people forced to work for the Nazis during World War II.
Now, they have hired English lawyer Martin Day, who recently won compensation for British prisoners of war detained by the Japanese, as well as for some Jews who were forced to work for the Nazis.
Not surprisingly, Britten was angrily criticized by his contemporaries for refusing to fight the Nazis.
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Some had been stolen by the Nazis, the rest left by the Nazis' victims for safe keeping.
And through reparations, trials, schoolbooks and monuments, Germany did much to atone for the crimes of the Nazis.
The third instalment in the Indiana Jones series saw the archaeologist and his father search for the Holy Grail while fighting the Nazis.
In 1945, a cache of pictures that had been removed from the museum for safekeeping before being discovered by the Nazis, was found hidden in Salzburg.
Anne Frank hid with her family in the "secret annex" of an Amsterdam house for two years before she was captured by Nazis in 1944.
It was displayed in the family's homes for generations, until it was stolen by the Nazis during World War II.
The Nazis believed there was room on the planet for only one ideology and one race.
During World War II, the Nazis moved the Sistine Madonna out of Dresden for safe-keeping.
Churchill was of course in the midst of fighting a war against the Nazis, so people may have forgiven him for being a bit testy.
His father remained behind and fought the Nazis while the Rottsteins lived as refugees in Uzbekistan for nearly four years.
With almost no hope left, the nation turned to Winston Churchill, the one man who had spoken the truth for years, saying nasty things about Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, even though it cost him in terms of political success and personal reputation.
The Nazis used the initially surreptitious artistic activities of the detainees for propaganda designed to hide the Third Reich's extermination scheme.
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Rabbi Joachim Prinz was born in Germany, expelled by the Nazis and found refuge in America, and he built support for the new State of Israel.
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In the original Jewish narrative, the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 meant redemption, an escape from the genocidal persecution of the Nazis and a return to the land promised by God (for the religious) or historical precedent (for the secular).
For most of the politicians and opinion-makers who wanted to appease Hitler, the Nazis were not much more than a raucous expression of German nationalism.
In addition to the Oscar bid, Polanski has a Directors Guild nomination for "The Pianist, " based on the true story of a Jewish musician hiding from Nazis in the ruins of Poland.
But when the Nazis took over Austria in 1938, Mr Bloch-Bauer and his niece were forced to flee for their lives.
Working jointly for the FBI and the German authorities his role was to report to them about the activities of American Neo-Nazis.
When, for example, he's addressing Jewish audiences, he'll mention the hundreds of Torahs collected by the Nazis, then found and repatriated by the Monuments Men.
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