History
Women’s fashion in Western European 1500–1520s
Women's fashions of the early 16th century consisted of a long gown, usually with sleeves, worn over a kirtle or…
Piazza di Spagna, Birthplace of musical performance, Italian Youth Committee UNESCO
Piazza di Spagna, with the staircase of Trinità dei Monti, is one of the most famous squares in Rome. It…
Chess During World War II, World Chess Hall of Fame
“Battle on the Board: Chess During World War II” highlights artifacts, stories, and imagery related to how chess aided service…
Festa del Redentore, Celebrating the end of the plague, Italian Youth Committee UNESCO
The best party in Venice is the 440-year-old Festa del Redentore. Every year a remarkable 25,000 fireworks explode over Serenissima,…
Women’s Fashion from 1800s to 1950s, A History of Shaping the Body, York Castle Museums
For centuries women's clothing has exaggerated body shape to fashionable extremes. This collections shows body-shaping fashions from the eighteenth to…
The Auschwitz Album, Yad Vashem
The only surviving visual evidence of the process of mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest extermination center created…
Faith in the Human Sporit is not lost, Yad Vashem
Recognition of the Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem - A Unique Program Nazi Germany occupied Vilnius on 24…
The fate of the children of the Marais, Yad Vashem
A story of destruction and humanity Liberté, égalité, fraternité (iberty, equality, fraternity) - the values perpetuated by the French revolution…
19 Kilometers from Auschwitz, Yad Vashem
The Story of the Jewish Community of Trzebinia, Poland On the eve of WWII, about 1,500 Jews lived in Trzebinia,…
Into the triangle trade, a history of human trafficking by Zeeland Archives
A history of human trafficking, pursuit of profit and distressing archival documents from the collections of the Zeeland Archives This…