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2 Feb 2015, 5:58 am
Oskar Groening, an SS guard at the Auschwitz concentration camp, claims he viewed many atrocities at the facility but never participated in the mass executions. [read post]
22 Jan 2015, 7:32 am
[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]
14 Jan 2015, 2:19 pm
Grunbaum was a renowned Viennese cabaret performer who had eighty-one Schiele artworks in his apartment when the Gestapo arrested him on March 22, 1938 and deported him to the Dachau Concentration Camp, where he died penniless on January 14, 1941. [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 12:15 pm
Is it ironic that even the tiniest part of Rabbi Hier's taxes have been and are being used to support former SS concentration-camp guards in their golden years? [read post]
21 Oct 2014, 12:15 pm
Is it ironic that even the tiniest part of Rabbi Hier's taxes have been and are being used to support former SS concentration-camp guards in their golden years? [read post]
20 Oct 2014, 10:15 pm
According to the BBC, those who benefited include Jakob Denzinger who served in a Death’s Head Unit, an organization charged with administering concentration camps; Martin Bartesch, a guard at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria; and Peter Mueller, a Nazi SS guard. [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 9:31 am
Then in 2000, researchers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum began documenting all of the ghettos, slave labor camps, concentration camps and killing centers operated by the Nazis. [read post]
26 Jun 2014, 6:47 pm
The Instagram era has now brought us the selfie in a concentration camp. [read post]
18 Jun 2014, 1:55 pm
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]
24 Apr 2014, 2:36 pm
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]
2 Dec 2013, 8:35 am
Diane’s mother had been in Auschwitz, and when the concentration camps came on she was laughing— she said that they made it so much more glamorous than it was when she was there, that all the women had crewcuts and it was a lot more crowded, that where the movie had 20 people there were really 300,000. [read post]
11 Apr 2013, 1:53 pm
A fascinating development in Germany’s longstanding prosecution of Holocaust perpetrators: Germany’s Central Office for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes has identified fifty former guards from the Auschwitz concentration camp—who are still living. [read post]
7 Apr 2013, 3:20 pm
The story is told from the perspective of the child of a Concentration Camp Commandant who befriends a Jewish child imprisoned in the a camp. [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]
27 Jan 2013, 12:43 pm
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]
12 Oct 2012, 5:14 pm
Synik was not just Jewish, he grew up in Poland just a few hours from Auschwitz Concentration Camp and he visited the death camp several times. [read post]
22 Aug 2012, 1:46 pm
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]
3 Aug 2012, 1:39 pm
"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]
4 Jul 2012, 3:25 pm
The brief filed on behalf of the Hungarian Jewish victims, mentions how Jewish assets were frozen at banks; and that from April to December 1944, these victims were transported by train to Auschwitz and other concentration camps. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 8:20 pm
The story is told from the perspective of the child of a Concentration Camp Commandant who befriends a Jewish child imprisoned in the a camp. [read post]
