BBC: The number of people who survived the Holocaust is dwindling – they are all now old men and women. But the Holocaust carries a special importance for Israel. Can it ensure that the next generation knows, and does not forget, what happened in Europe seven decades ago? Under a lightless Polish sky as dull and flat as a sheet [...]
A small French village which saved thousands of Jewish people and refugees from the Nazis has opened a museum dedicated to its wartime secret. Le Chambon, high in the mountains near Lyon, had a tradition of sheltering refugees from persecution even before the war, and during the conflict it became a centre for those trying to escape. Robert Hall reports [...]
chronogram.com reports: Fascists hate gays and lesbians. Why? They don’t reproduce, creating no Hitler Youth. The men make poor stormtroopers. Nazis believed that gays threatened the “disciplined masculinity” of the German race, and could become an “epidemic.” Under Hitler, between 5,000 and 15,000 gay men were sent to concentration camps, where many perished from starvation, disease, and systematic murder. The [...]
Hexhamcourant reports: To the untrained eye, Auschwitz is no different to any other site. It’s like a castle in ruins. However the atrocities of Auschwitz lie in the testimonies and knowledge passed down to our generation, to educate to prevent such a disaster happening again. Our tour comprised of visits to three sites. The first was a small village called [...]
The JC reports: Hollywood star Jessica Chastain will play Antonina Zabinski in the forthcoming film The extraordinary story of a Holocaust heroine who saved Jews from the Nazis by hiding them in animal cages at Warsaw Zoo, has been published in Britain for the first time. Diane Ackerman’s bestselling book describes how Antonina Zabinski and her husband Jan – a [...]
The Telegraph reports: A team of Polish and Israeli archaeologists believe they have discovered traces of an escape tunnel at the infamous Nazi death camp at Sobibor. Lying five feet below the surface, the tunnel stretched for 32 feet from one of the barracks and under the barbwire fences surrounding the camp. Its discovery provides the first physical evidence of [...]
The Independent reports Nazi war criminals escaped prosecution because crucial evidence in Britain’s National Archives and in government archives in the United States was ignored for decades. The thousands of pages of documentation describe atrocities carried out in both Eastern and Western Europe – but have only been examined by German government war crimes investigators over the past four [...]
The Telegraph reports: Seventy-five years after the first evacuation to Britain of Jewish children from Nazi Europe – known as the Kindertransport – we hear from some of those rescued who made a new life here The candles were lit for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah as 10-year-old Ruth Heber and her seven-year-old brother Harry left their family’s rented rooms [...]
The Telegraph reports: Nicholas Winton rescued hundreds of young Jews from the Nazis and is a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. We meet some of the children he saved The birthday party will be modest and understated, in keeping with the man. Sir Nicholas Winton is 104 tomorrow and naturally some of his children will be there to wish [...]
A woman who was born at Mauthausen concentration camp is returning to the site on the 68th anniversary of its liberation. Eva Clarke, 68, grew up in Wales after her widowed mother remarried and the family moved to the UK in 1948. She has contributed her Austrian-issued Mauthausen birth certificate to a time capsule for the camp’s museum. Ms Clarke, [...]
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