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18 Jun 2014, 1:55 pm by Tom Smith
Breyer is accused of joining the Waffen SS at age 17 and working as a guard at the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 5:34 am by Mary L. Dudziak
  The abstract is very short, so here are is the Introduction:AuschwitzOf the many images that characterize the Holocaust in modern memory, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps (“Auschwitz”) are among the most recognized and enduring. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 2:36 pm by Rob Howse
  He merely used the example of concentration camps to illustrate the moral argument that if something is intrinsically evil the fact that it provides a livelihood for some people does not erase or perhaps even mitigate the intrinsic evil. [read post]
27 May 2008, 3:01 pm
OBAMA: I had an uncle who was one of the -- who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps. [read post]
4 Oct 2017, 8:31 am
Early in 1945 they were shipped again, this time to Bergen-Belsen, a German concentration camp, where tens of thousands died from malnutrition and disease. [read post]
28 Jan 2022, 10:54 am by Michael Caruso
By Michael Caruso:Yesterday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day, marking the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. [read post]
3 Aug 2012, 1:39 pm by Dan Taglioli
"Pharrajimos" is observed each August 2 [UN News Centre report] in remembrance of the approximately 3,000 Roma and Sinti who were killed on that date in 1944 when Nazis liquidated the "Gypsy" section of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex. [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 1:46 pm by Dan Taglioli
The German special prosecutors' office that pursues Nazi-era crimes is recommending that charges be filed [AP report] against the man alleged to have served as an SS guard at the Auschwitz [JURIST news archive] concentration camp during World War II. [read post]
10 Sep 2008, 10:31 am
Allianz insured facilities and personnel at concentration camps like Auschwitz [...] [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 7:32 am by Steven Wildberger
[JURIST] As part of the 70th anniversary commemoration [official website] of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp (USHMM backgrounder), UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson [official website] on Wednesday called for an examination of why genocide continues to be perpetrated in some parts of the world. [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 6:00 pm by steven perkins
Parliament has held a ceremony each year since 1996 on this date, on which the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated in 1945. [read post]
28 Jan 2020, 8:54 am by Erin McCarthy Holliday
On the 75th Anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the US House of Representatives voted Monday overwhelmingly in favor of the Never Again Education Act — funding created to support Holocaust education across the country. [read post]
1 Dec 2016, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Smoke Over Birkenau is one of the few testimonies to record the experience of women in the Nazi concentration camps. [read post]
23 Apr 2010, 1:57 pm
In his work at Nuremberg, he assisted in the cross examination of Nazi defendant Hermann Goring, was chiefly responsible for the prosecutions of defendant Ernst Kaltenbrunner, former Chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office), and participated in the interrogations of former Auschwitz concentration camp commandant Rudolf Hess. [read post]
15 Jul 2017, 9:45 am by Cathy
On my end, in addition to my distraction, I’d also seen another concentration camp that very week, which probably led to a saturation problem. [read post]
27 Jan 2018, 11:55 am by Diane Marie Amann
Seventy-three years ago today, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau, the infamous Nazi concentration camp located about 45 miles west of Kraków, Poland. [read post]
17 Jul 2017, 8:17 am
Some 77,000 French Jews died in Nazi concentration camps or extermination camps before the end of World War II, the vast majority of them at Auschwitz-Birkenau in occupied Poland.For decades, many French have held on to the idea that their ancestors had been either victims or resisters of Nazis, or of the collaborationist regime that was set up in Vichy, France....In April, Marine Le Pen, the far-right National Front leader whom Mr. [read post]
25 Apr 2018, 6:22 am by Eric Muller
  If we flip the number around, we see that 59% of Americans do know that Auschwitz was a "concentration camp" or a "death camp. [read post]
11 Apr 2021, 10:16 am
Here's the abstract: Cultural heritage is a feature of transitioning societies, from museums commemorating the end of a dictatorship to adding places like the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to the World Heritage List. [read post]