During the Holocaust, many people pursued cultural or recreational activities as a means of providing distraction, hope, or comfort to themselves and their communities.
leisure & recreation
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The Holocaust and the Moving Image
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustMarcus Tennenbaum, Family Home Movies
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Artists and Visual Culture in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPage from the Wartime Album of George Byfield
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Sexuality, Gender, and Nazi Persecution
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhoto Collage from a Nazi Magazine
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Everyday Encounters with Fascism
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhoto from a Public Pool in Fürth, Germany
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of "Strength through Joy” Event at Strandbad Wannsee
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Nazi Propaganda and National Unity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhotograph of a "Strength through Joy" Car
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German Police and the Nazi Regime
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of Police Battalion 101 Celebrating Christmas
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustProgram for the 1936 Schmeling-Louis Bout
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Nazi Propaganda and National Unity
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePropaganda Film: "Radio in War"
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Higher Education in Nazi Germany
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustReport on the Camaraderie House for Female Students of Göttingen