This week in Jewish history: Herzl writes Der Judenstaat, Byzantines betray the Jews
The book Der Judenstaat was published in Vienna by Theodor Herzl, in which he envisaged a Jewish state combining humanitarian ...
The Ukrainian Ombudsman in Poland is outraged by infostends that the concentration camps were guarded by Ukrainians
The head of the office of the Ukrainian Ombudsman in Poland, Anna Stozhko, was outraged by the fact that there are ...
How Auschwitz become di centre of Nazi Holocaust
Auschwitz bin dey for di centre of di Nazi campaign to wipe out Europe Jewish population, and almost one million of di pipo wey bin die for dia na Jews. Among di odas wey lose dia lives na Poles, ...
Memorializing the Holocaust Needs to Go Beyond Auschwitz
That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of ...
Survivors of Auschwitz deliver warning from history as memories die out
World leaders rubbed shoulders with 56 survivors of Hitler's death camp as they marked 80 years since its liberation.
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The lost music of Auschwitz: How Jewish inmates were forced to perform in death camp orchestras - and now their compositions are being played again
Treblinka, near a village of the same name, outside Warsaw in Nazi-occupied Poland Unlike at other camps, where some Jews were assigned to forced labor before being killed, nearly all Jews brought ...
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Auschwitz: How death camp became centre of Nazi Holocaust
Three others, at Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka, were also completed in ... for "delousing" - a euphemism used for the gas chambers. Guards from the so-called "Hygienic Institute" would then ...
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How must it feel to wake up each morning knowing your grandfather was Rudolf Hoss, commandant of Auschwitz and one of the most brutal criminals of the Second World War? ROBERT ...
newly arrived off a cattle truck and so engrossed in a game of tag that they failed to heed the command to follow the rest into the gas chamber until the commandant ordered two guards to pick them ...
King Charles pledges to remember Holocaust evils during emotional Auschwitz visit
In a poignant moment of remembrance, King Charles stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Holocaust survivors, vowing that the ...
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Memorializing the Holocaust Must Go Beyond the Death Camps
These areas included barracks for guards, factories for forced labor ... Some, like the extermination camps at Sobibor, Majdanek, and Treblinka (all in Poland), were widely known and gradually ...
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Resistance: They Fought Back
Berenbaum: Treblinka had approximately somewhere in ... Everybody has to kill his SS man and his guard at his place of work... [Man screaming] and it started working. Berenbaum: They then stormed ...
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An Appleton man shares his mother’s and grandmother’s story on Holocaust Remembrance Day
His mother’s biological father bribed a guard to let them out ... would ask a family friend visiting the Treblinka concentration camp for help. “And she gave them a list of all the names ...