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27 Jan 2023, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day marking the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp. [read post]
27 Jan 2013, 12:43 pm by Howard Friedman
Those who experienced the horrors of the cattle cars, ghettos, and concentration camps have witnessed humanity at its very worst and know too well the pain of losing loved ones to senseless violence.But while this is a time for mourning and reflection, it is also the time for action. [read post]
23 Jan 2007, 6:30 am
A story in the Wall Street Journal tells how an 89-year-old survivor of Nazi concentration camps stayed alive because of his ability to counterfeit money. [read post]
7 Aug 2007, 4:48 am
  On Saturday, we toured Auschwitz and Birkenau (Auschwitz II) concentration and extermination camps, about 50 km west of Krakow in the city of OÃ…â [read post]
9 Mar 2009, 5:39 pm
  For those of us actually in the know Auschwitz was a Nazi concentration/extermination camp in which over 1 million Jews and other undesirables were worked and gassed to death. [read post]
10 Jul 2017, 1:16 pm by Cathy
” The other contained the silhouette of the main buildings at concentration camps like Auschwitz. [read post]
6 Nov 2018, 11:38 am by Manny Marotta
German newspaper Die Welt reports that the man, whose name is not disclosed for legal reasons, is alleged to be complicit in the murders of 65,000 victims of Stutthof Concentration Camp in Eastern Poland when he served there from 1942 to 1944. [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 11:24 am by Julian Ku
In a brief filed last week in federal court in Chicago, D’Amato said the state railways were complicit in the Holocaust and that Jews leaving Hungary for Auschwitz and other concentration camps had to leave their suitcases behind when they were loaded into boxcars. [read post]
2 Mar 2013, 10:38 am
"Likewise, the Nazi system for imprisoning Jewish families in hometown ghettos has become associated with a single site — the Warsaw Ghetto, famous for the 1943 uprising. [read post]
2 Jul 2021, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
In the United States, a 2018 survey showed that 66% of millennials could not identify what the Auschwitz concentration and death camp was. [read post]
8 May 2021, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The Poston Internment Camp, located in Yuma County (now in La Paz County) of southwestern Arizona, was the largest (in terms of area) of the ten American concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II. [read post]
30 Nov 2008, 11:01 am
On this day in ...... 1943 (65 years ago today), Etty Hillesum perished at Auschwitz, the Nazi concentration camp in Poland. [read post]
26 Jan 2024, 12:00 pm by Howard Friedman
Today President Biden issued a Statement (full text) calling attention to International Holocaust Remembrance Day which occurs tomorrow (the anniversary of the 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet armed forces). [read post]
30 Sep 2009, 6:27 pm
The National Archives and Records Administration of the United States and Footnote.com yesterday announced the release of the Internet's largest Interactive Holocaust Collection with hundreds of thousands of records, including: The Ardelia Hall Collection of records relating to the Nazi looting of Jewish possessions, including looted art Concentration camp registers and documents from Dachau, Mauthausen, Auschwitz, and Flossenburg Captured German records including… [read post]
11 Oct 2023, 3:16 am
 When the Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister repeatedly state that those who live in Gaza- a strip of land about the size of Washington DC with twice as many inhabitants- should leave now- knowing full well both Israel and Egypt have closed the borders, trapping over two million people- we cannot help but be reminded of the sign that hung above the Auschwitz concentration camp: Arbeit Macht Frei: Work Sets You Free. [read post]
22 Jul 2020, 10:35 am by Tom Smith
Customs and Border Protection of 13 tons of products made from human hair suspected of being forcibly removed from Uighurs imprisoned in concentration camps. [read post]
9 Feb 2015, 10:19 am by Ruth Levush
” Recently, people all over the world remembered how the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated 70 years ago on January 27, 1945. [read post]
11 Nov 2021, 7:35 am by The Swartz Law Firm
 What they did not know was this plant was located only a few miles from the Auschwitz concentration camp. [read post]
12 Oct 2009, 12:54 pm by jblock
He has also underwritten the restoration of two Torah scrolls, one from the Auschwitz concentration camp and another from Dachau. [read post]
19 Jan 2019, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Since the Nazis had decided to close the Chelmno death camp because Soviet troops were getting close, the remaining transports went to Auschwitz. [read post]