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Title: International Holocaust Remembrance Day: How science earned Enrico Fermi a Nobel Prize – and saved his Jewish wife and children

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1839347· OSTI ID:1839347

International Holocaust Remembrance Day is an annual commemoration designated by the United Nations that includes worldwide memorial services, vigils and more. January 27 is the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was the largest Nazi concentration camp operated by Nazi Germany during World War II.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
89233218CNA000001
OSTI ID:
1839347
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-22-20123; TRN: US2302676
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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