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Bitter Story of Bitter Times: Holocaust Survivor Recalls Winter Months in Nazi Camps

February, 1945 – It would have been the perfect time for 13-year-old Ivor Perl’s bar mitzvah but instead the barely in his teens lad stood under…

Academic Reprint Of Hitler’s Mein Kampf soon to be available

Ian Harvey

A number of German newspapers suggested last week that Bavaria was trying to ban Adolf Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf. Actually, Horst Seehofer, Bavaria’s minister president…

Citizenship of Adolf Hitler revoked by German town after an outcry

Photo story (Clockwise from top left): (1) Adolf Hitler is photographed by his personal photographer Hugo Jaeger in upper Bavaria in the late 1930s (2)…

Dutch Site Faces Legal Action for Selling Holocaust Victims’ Letters, Nazi Mementos

AMSTERDAM – A Dutch-based online selling site is auctioning off letters written by Holocaust victims while imprisoned in concentration camps. The seller, identified through the handle…

WWII and Holocaust are no joke: Committee protests against Kimmel’s anti-Polish ethnic putdowns

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The Anti-Bigotry Committee of the Polish American Congress released an official letter in protest to the series of anti-Polish ethnic jokes which was used recently…

Filmmaker Klayman pays tribute to Soviet’s Night Witch in short film

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Alison Klayman, one of the “20 Directors to Watch” by New York Times film critics, created “The Night Witch” to pay tribute to a World…

Long-lost diary of top Nazi Alfred Rosenberg finally recovered and turned over to Holocaust museum

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Alfred Rosenberg was a Nazi before Adolf Hitler became one. He later on served as the Nazi’s interim leader. He is also a known author…

East Germany’s Secret Intelligence Files: Pictures From The Secret Stasi Archives

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Simon Menner, a German artist, has put together a series of photographs featuring spies from former communist East Germany, in an exhibition named “Pictures from…

Holocaust survivor tells story of the horrors of Auschwitz

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A Holocaust survivor shares the horrors that she has witnessed in Auschwitz almost 70 years after the outbreak of the Second World War. She said…

101st Airborne Paratrooper Turned Writer: Herbert Eggie Tells His Story

Herbert Eggie and the 20 paratroopers under his command looked down through the open door of the plane as it soared above the drop zone…

World War II PoW’s name to be removed from war memorial after he was discovered to have survived until 1989

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A prisoner of war during the World War Two was presumed to have died in the hands of the Nazis. Recently, it was discovered that…

A 1945 Transcript Of Nuremberg Trials Donated To US Holocaust Museum

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“Palace of Justice Nuremberg, Germany. 19 November 1945 Good evening. This is Corporal Sy Bernhard talking from AFN’s special booth in the courtroom at Nuremberg,…