Posts Tagged: concentration camp
Jewish Resistance Hero Identified 80 Years After Execution by Nazis
i24 News — Dutch forensic investigators have finally identified the mysterious remains of a man executed by Nazi occupiers as that of a Jewish resistance...
Berlin Cops Arrest Man for Arson Attacks, Vandalism Against Holocaust Memorials
German police have arrested a 63-year-old man in connection with a series of recent arson attacks and vandalism targeting memorials to Jewish and LGBT victims...
Auschwitz-Birkenau Launches Project to Save Thousands of Holocaust Children’s Shoes From Crumbling
An initiative for the “urgent” conservation of thousands of pairs of shoes of children killed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp has been launched to try...
My First Visit to a Concentration Camp
This summer, I went to Berlin, Germany. From seeing the Brandenburg Gate where the Nazis held their parades, to seeing the Holocaust Memorial erected by...
Are US Detention Centers Concentration Camps or Not?
Allow me to tell you a little story about Jack and Bella Bajnon. A gentle, long-married couple, Jack and Bella lived down the block from where...
World Jewish Congress Head Lauder: 70 Years After Holocaust, We Are ‘Descending Into the Same, Dangerous Hell’
One of the world's most prominent Jewish leaders warned on Sunday that just 70 years after the Holocaust, the world is "descending into the same,...
Auschwitz-Birkenau Now Asking Visitors to Pre-Book Trips to the Concentration Camp
Authorities at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum warned on Tuesday that it may have to begin turning people away from visiting the Nazi-German death camp...
Treblinka Uprising 70th Anniversary Ceremony Features Last Living Survivor Samuel Willenberg
The site of the Treblinka concentration camp, in Poland, played host to a ceremony this past Friday commemorating 70 years since the Jewish prisoner revolt...
My Promise to the ‘Lion of Judah’
In August of last year I was invited to the premiere of a Holocaust documentary at the Quad Cinema in Greenwich Village entitled 'Lion of...
A German Town Mourns Its Holocaust Past – The DP Camp Story Part 2
We last left Lillian and David Gewirtzman as they were about to meet the Mayor and townspeople of Ulm Germany for the opening...
