Posts Tagged: Nazi death camp
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...
Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum Finds New Names, Stories From Nazi Death Camp
JNS.org - Archivist Ewa Bazan at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum discovered new names and stories linked to the German Nazi concentration and death camp. “We didn’t know...
‘I Stayed Alive to Tell’ – Auschwitz’s Dwindling Survivors Recount Horrors of Nazi Death Camp
A strip of skin tattooed with the Auschwitz death camp number 99288 sits in a silver frame on a shelf in Avraham Harshalom's living room....
German Court Closes Case of Former Nazi Death-Camp Guard
A court in Germany has closed the trial against a 95-year-old former guard at a Nazi death camp because of the defendant's health problems, almost...
96-Year-Old Former Nazi Death Camp Guard Charged in Germany With Murder Complicity
JNS.org - German prosecutors have charged a former guard at the Majdanek death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland with accessory to the murder of at least...
Dutch Student’s Dorm Room Made to Look Like Nazi Death Camp in Hazing Ritual
JNS.org - Students at Leiden University in the Netherlands redesigned a Jewish classmate’s dorm room to make it look like a Nazi death camp as part...
Demjanjuk Holocaust Trial Witness Dies
JNS.org - A Holocaust survivor of the Sobibor Nazi death camp who testified at the trial of alleged camp guard John Demjanjuk has died at the...
Major Jewish Group Offers to Lead Google Team on Tour of Concentration Camps
A leading Jewish group offered to organize a week-long visit to Nazi concentration camps for the team behind a Google smartphone game that included the death camps as...
‘Accountant of Auschwitz’ Trial Spectacle Sends Message to Future Generations
This week, in the German town of Lueneburg, a 93-year-old man went on trial accused of being an accessory to 300,000 murders. Whether you welcome the unedifying sight...
Auschwitz Survivor: ‘We Do Not Want Our Past to Become Our Children’s Future’
Holocaust survivors do not want the atrocities they faced to be repeated in future generations, Auschwitz survivor Roman Kent said in an emotional speech on...
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Leaders Mark 70 Years Since Auschwitz Liberation
JNS.org - More than 300 Holocaust survivors along with world leaders gathered at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Tuesday to commemorate the...
Holocaust Victims’ Shoes Stolen From Majdanek Death Camp Museum
JNS.org - Eight shoes that belonged to Holocaust victims of the Poland-based Nazi death camp Majdanek, which had been on display in the museum at the camp's former site, have...
Vatican to Contribute to Preservation of Auschwitz
JNS.org - The Vatican has joined 30 other nations in contributing to the historical preservation of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi death camp in Poland. The...
The Palestinians and the Holocaust
In the past few weeks, several reports highlighted the vitriolic backlash that followed a visit by a group of Palestinian students to Auschwitz at the...
