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17 Apr 2018, 11:45 am
A Stuttgart Public Prosecutor brought charges[press release, in German] Monday in a district court in Mannheim against a 94-year-old former Schutzstaffel (SS) guard of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp for aiding and abetting the murders committed in the camp. [read post]
27 Jan 2018, 11:55 am
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]
15 Oct 2017, 1:55 pm
Dublin Review of Books – Michael Cronin – Interpreting in Nazi Concentration Camps, by Michaela Wolf (ed), Bloomsbury, 192 pp, ISBN: 978-1501313257: “Many of the labour and extermination camps scattered across the Nazi Reich held up to thirty or forty different nationalities, most of them speaking different languages. [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]
25 Jul 2017, 8:15 am
That’s one reason it was so surprising that ahead of a crucial court hearing this week, defense lawyers for the two psychologists behind the CIA’s torture program compared their clients to the contractors who supplied the Nazis with Zyklon B, the poison gas used at Auschwitz and other concentration camps to murder millions of Jews and other prisoners in the Holocaust. [read post]
23 Jul 2017, 1:01 am
In particular, the Allies have been condemned for their failure to bomb the Auschwitz concentration camp. [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]
15 Jul 2017, 9:45 am
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]
10 Jul 2017, 1:16 pm
” The other contained the silhouette of the main buildings at concentration camps like Auschwitz. [read post]
23 Mar 2017, 8:50 pm
They did not survive the “selections” in the concentration camps. [read post]
1 Dec 2016, 12:01 am
Smoke Over Birkenau is one of the few testimonies to record the experience of women in the Nazi concentration camps. [read post]
27 Oct 2016, 8:33 am
But, he said, images of the railroad tracks at the Auschwitz concentration camp that so many people associate with the events of that time minimize the horror. [read post]
2 Aug 2016, 1:46 pm
After she was liberated from the concentration camp, she found a photo album, now known as the “Auschwitz Album,” in which she recognized herself and her gassed family. [read post]
7 Jul 2015, 12:09 pm
Groening, 94-year-old former S.S. sergeant and Auschwitz guard, has been dubbed [Süddeutsche Zeitung report] the "Accountant of Auschwitz" for his duties of guarding, collecting and tallying possessions taken from the prisoners upon arrival at the concentration camp. [read post]
10 Jun 2015, 1:01 am
Deportations to death camps began in January, 1942. [read post]
22 May 2015, 1:28 am
The rocket scientist was a card-carrying Nazi who use slave labor from concentration camps to build the glboe’s first ballistic missile. [read post]
18 May 2015, 1:05 pm
Child survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp upon their liberation in January 1945. [read post]
17 Apr 2015, 5:20 am
Three descendants of Holocaust victims are suing the French national railroad in federal court in Illinois over claims it was paid to confiscate property and transport Jews and others to Nazi concentration camps. [read post]
9 Feb 2015, 10:19 am
” Recently, people all over the world remembered how the Auschwitz concentration camp was liberated 70 years ago on January 27, 1945. [read post]
5 Feb 2015, 6:11 pm
They also were indispensable in managing concentration camps. [read post]
