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How do you say ‘Just following orders' in French?
Drancy :: France | 11 months ago
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This week marks the 70th anniversary of one of the darkest days in the history of French Jewry. Tim Shaffer This week marks the 70th anniversary of one of the darkest days in the history of French Jewry. In the early morning hours of July 16, 1942,
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Alleged Nazi war criminal found
Budapest :: Hungary | 11 months ago
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The Simon Wiesenthal Center found Ladislaus Csizsik-Csatary as part of its "Last Chance" project, said Efraim Zuroff, director of the center's Israel office. The center cooperated with British tabloid The Sun to photograph Csizsik-Csatary, who
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Tragic story of German worker's epic attempts to save his Jewish fiancee from the Nazis becomes European best-seller
Hohenems :: Austria | 12 months ago
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6 July 2012 The extraordinary love story of a young man who faced off against the power of the Nazi state to try to save his Jewish fiancee from the gas chambers has become a best seller in German-speaking Europe. 'Love in the Time of Racial Madness'
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Anti-Israel German activist lied about IDF service
Berlin :: Germany | 12 months ago
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A German poet and anti-Israel activist has acknowledged that she fabricated her supposed service in the IDF during the First Lebanon war. I said I was in the IDF, but it was a lie, Irena Wachendorff, 51, told The Jerusalem Post , in a telephone
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BUCHENWALD AND KRAKOV: ABSOLUTE HORROR, UNDENIABLE HOPE
Oświęcim :: Poland | 12 months ago
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So outrageously beautiful here in early summer. Dana Schwartz, a child survivor of the ghetto and forest, now in her seventies, once told me what a friend, a former prisoner at Auschwitz, said in response to the common observation of first-time
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Survivor: Edith More
Budapest :: Hungary | 12 months ago
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It was September 1944, and they feared being transported to a different camp. Let's hide, Edith's mother suggested, and the two darted into an empty barracks. But soon, afraid they would be missed, they rejoined the roll-call lineup, only to be
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Jewish leaders slam French, German soccer teams
Berlin :: Germany | 1 year ago
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German soccer captain, 2 Polish-born players say "missed opportunity" rest of team didn't visit Auschwitz. The president of the umbrella organization of France's Jewish communities said it was shocking that his country's soccer team did not visit
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Midwood couple recalls love after surviving death camps during World War II
Munich :: Germany | 1 year ago
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Courtesy Arlene Rosano Courtesy Arlene Rosano Their very meeting defied death...But there they were at the war's end, at a displaced persons' camp in Foehrenwald, Germany, having survived the Holocaust while most of their relatives died. Their 1945
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Stamping out racism at Euro 2012
Portsmouth :: United Kingdom | 1 year ago
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Many of us are returning from work this week and sit glued to our TV screens, as we watch the live broadcasts of the Euro 2012 tournament, hosted jointly by Poland and Ukraine. The feast of summer football (alternated by the World Cup and the Euro
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This Week in History: Prisoners arrive at Auschwitz
Bytom :: Poland | 1 year ago
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That was the message delivered to the 728 prisoners who arrived in the first mass transport to Auschwitz on June 14, 1940, as later recalled by survivor Kazimierz Albi. The first group the Nazis sent to Auschwitz, which later became one of the most
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