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A survivor remembers
Michigan City :: IN :: USA | about 10 hours ago
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When she was just 13, Miriam Webster lay with her parents and her younger brother in the Polish woods, watching planes pass overhead. She wanted to believe her father who told her not to worry because those were Polish planes "on exercises." Less than...
Tags: Miriam Webster, University of Chicago, Michigan City, Genocides, Treblinka extermination camp, Miriam, Holocaust, Discrimination, Jewish history, Homophobia, The Holocaust, Religion Belief
A ‘fresh’ take on the Holocaust
Łódź :: Poland | 2 days ago
Credibility Just ask artist Jane Korman, who recently returned from an all-singing, all-dancing tour of Europe’s death camps with her Holocaust survivor father. The result is Dancing Auschwitz, three video instillations and a photographic image, which are being shown...
Tags: Adolek Korman, Mr Korman, Jane Korman, Dancing Auschwitz, holocaust survivor, Poland, Łódź, Holocaust, Auschwitz concentration camp
Germany criticised for Nazi trial double standards
Munich :: Germany | 2 days ago
Credibility Demjanjuk's lawyer Ulrich Busch argues that the case is a farce because German SS members at the Sobibor death camp, where he is accused of being a guard, were acquitted in earlier trials. "How can it be that those who gave the orders can have been found...
Tags: John Demjanjuk, deaths camp, Mr Demjanjuk, Stop Demjanjuk, sobibor deaths, nazi guard, Munich, Sobibor, retired ohio, Ulrich Busch, Germany, Law Crime, Office of Special Investigations, The Holocaust, Extermination camp, Sobibor extermination camp, Operation Reinhard, Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, Treblinka extermination camp, War Conflict, Trawniki concentration camp, Soviet prisoners of war, Human Interest, Action T4, Holocaust
Forgotten Genocides of History
For many, the Holocaust is synonymous with the slaughter of six million Jews during the Second World War. While World War II's tragedy is often included in history text books, other historical tragedies should not be forgotten. The Meaning of Holocaust:...
Tags: Holocaust, genocide, Rwanda, Nanking, World War II
Nuremberg witness dies in New Zealand
Auckland :: New Zealand | 5 days ago
Credibility A survivor of Auschwitz who gave evidence at the Nuremberg Trials died in New Zealand. Fred Silberstein died Monday in Auckland...Silberstein, who was just 14 when he was taken to Auschwitz in 1943, spent much of his life educating New Zealanders about...
Tags: Aucklander Fred Silberstein, Nuremberg Trials, New Zealand, Auckland, Silberstein, Josef Mengele, Jewish history, The Holocaust, Auschwitz concentration camp, Nazis in South America, War Conflict, Nuremberg, Holocaust, Human Interest
European Jews ask Russia to mark Holocaust Day
Moscow :: Russia | 6 days ago
Credibility Reuters 'It's important people realize xenophobia is horrific,' European Jewish Congress head says after meeting with Russian president in Moscow Reuters European Jews asked Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday if his country would observe...
Tags: Congress, Dmitry Medvedev, jewish congress, Russia, Moscow, Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor, European Jewish Congress, The Holocaust, War Conflict, Auschwitz concentration camp, Religion Belief, Gazprom, Politics, Social Issues, Holocaust, Jewish history, Medvedev, Antisemitism
Daniel Goldhagen and the ongoing assault on humanity
Toronto :: Canada | 8 days ago
Credibility There are some writers who clearly think that by changing a word they can change the world. After all, didn't Karl Marx tell us, at his most ambitious, that he didn't want to just analyze history, but transform it?
Tags: Daniel Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, David Rieff, mass murderous, Canada, Toronto, Goldhagen, Responsibility for the Holocaust, Holocaust, Germanophobia, The Holocaust, Anti-Catholicism in the United States, Eliminationism
Holocaust detainees eligible for funds
Sofia :: Bulgaria | 8 days ago
Credibility Holocaust survivors who spent time in detention during the Second World War will be eligible for reparations without needing to meet the criteria for reparation-eligibility recently published by the Finance Ministry, the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday,...
Tags: Finance Ministry, Haim Hershko, holocaust survivor, Ilan Yakovovic, Bulgaria, Sofia, Holocaust, Law Crime
EasyJet's Holocaust fashion shoot grounded
Berlin :: Germany | 8 days ago
Credibility In an embarrassing change of course, the budget airline easyJet has pulped almost 300,000 copies of its in-flight magazine because of a monumental row over its use of a Holocaust memorial as a location for a fashion shoot. The airline had been accused...
Tags: EasyJet Traveller, holocaust memorial, fashion shoot, Germany, Berlin, European Low Fares Airline Association, Holocaust, EasyJet, Low-cost airlines, W, Photo shoot, Airline, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Hospitality Recreation, Peter Eisenman, War Conflict
Cadets visit Greenwich to discuss lessons learned from the Holocaust
Warsaw :: Poland | 11 days ago
Credibility Naval Academy, said what the trip did show her was the responsibility she has in the military. "We could be in a position when we allow a terrible atrocity to occur," Creasey said. "Are we going to have the courage, both morally and mentally, to stand...
Tags: Ellyn Creasey, Christ Church Greenwich, Poland, Warsaw, Holocaust, Midshipman, Jewish history, Auschwitz concentration camp, The Holocaust, War Conflict
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