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British teenagers caught stealing items from Auschwitz

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[Via] Two schoolboys from the UK have been arrested in Poland after they were caught stealing objects from the Auschwitz concentration camp grounds. The two…

German Chancellor Visits Dachau Concentration Camp’s Commemoration Ceremony

Dachau Concentration Camp

[Via] German Chancellor will be attending a commemorative ceremony in Dachau on Sunday, along with Nazi concentration camp’s survivors. US forces liberated the prisoner at…

Auschwitz worker goes on trial at 93

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Groening, pictured, was a 21-year-old junior NCO in the SS when he was ordered to Auschwitz camp [Via] Oskar Groening, a German bookkeeper at Auschwitz…

Anne Frank’s school friend reveals life under Nazis

A new documentary on the National Geographic Channel has revealed the story of Nanette Konig, one of Anne Frank’s school friends who know Anne and…

The Hungarian Holocaust Diaries of Maria Madi

Ian Harvey
Maria Madi

On March 26, 1944, Maria Madi wrote that she “was going to be a witness.” Her handwritten 16 volume diary is just that as it…

Why Bombing Auschwitz Was Not An Option

Ian Harvey

Ahead of the annual Auschwitz Liberation Day on 27th January, some question were asked why the Allies did not bomb the railroads leading to the…

Rudolf Vrba – one of the first to report on the horrors of Auschwitz

Ian Harvey

Rudolf Vrba was one of the first people to escape from Auschwitz concentration camp and report what was happening there to the authorities. Rudolf was…

Josef Mengele – Nazi’s Angel of Death

Ian Harvey

Josef Mengele  got his nickname the ‘angel of death’ because of his disturbing fascination with human experiments, which he conducted on a mass scale at…

Rudolf Hoess – Nazi mass murderer

Ian Harvey

Rudolf Hoess was one of the Nazi’s top SS commanders and commandant at Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two. Today, his grandson has now…

How the seven dwarfs of Auschwitz fell under the spell of Dr Death

Ian Harvey

May 19, 1944 – When Perla Ovitz and her family were lifted off the train shortly after arriving in Auschwitz that fateful Friday; the SS…

Criminal trial of Nazi, Adolf Eichmann, recreated for modern TV drama

Ian Harvey

The Nazi criminal trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961 was the first of its kind to be televised, and exposed the brutality and devastation of…

The Intimidated Ukraine Jews

Ian Harvey
Ukraine

It was on Tuesday when the second day of Pesach celebration was going on at the Donetsk synagogue when more than hundred people from jewish…