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'Witnesses in uniform': IDF officers in Auschwitz
Tel Aviv :: Israel | 1 month ago
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EPA Members of Israeli army delegation visit concentration camps, meet with German soldiers to discuss Judaism, politics, Islam in Europe. 'We had to salute while German anthem was playing; this was not east,' Major Rabinstein says Aryeh Savir,
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Survivor: Today's youth uninterested in Holocaust
Tel Aviv :: Israel | 1 month ago
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It must be passed down from father to son for thousands of years,' he says Brit Perets Over the past few years, 82-year-old Shlomo Ronen has contacted a few Tel Aviv high schools requesting to come and speak to students about the Holocaust in general,
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Germany ‘tracks down 50 suspected Auschwitz guards'
Ludwigsburg :: Germany | 1 month ago
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Germany tracks down 50 suspected Auschwitz guards' Fifty alleged former Auschwitz guards may face prison terms in Germany, sixty-eight years after the end of World War II, local media have reported. The former Auschwitz guards, who've never faced
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Germany to probe Auschwitz murders
Ludwigsburg :: Germany | 1 month ago
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UP to 50 Nazi guards at the former Auschwitz death camp, some who are now in their 90s, are reportedly to be investigated by German authorities for complicity in murder. The office in charge of tracking down those who committed Nazi crimes will
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Long Beach resident Gerda Seifer shares memories of survival during the Holocaust
Long Beach :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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A photograph is a book shows Seifer as a young girl in Poland in 1938. (Sean Hiller / Staff Photographer) In the summer of 1942, Gerda Seifer was 15 years old and hiding in a small, pitch-black cellar while Nazis hunted Polish Jews in the streets
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Holocaust survivors slated to light memorial torches
Warsaw :: Poland | 1 month ago
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The ceremony will also feature speeches by President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the kindling of a memorial torch in the Holocaust memorial's Warsaw Ghetto Square by Yad Vashem chairman Avner Shalev, and remarks by Aliza Vitis-
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Summerlin woman recalls working in WWII
San Diego :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Norman Rockwell put her on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post...A popular poster showed a young woman flexing her biceps with We Can Do It penned above her determined-looking face...More than 310,000 women worked in the U.S. aircraft industry in
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From Death March to Hell Ships
Oak Park :: IL :: USA | 1 month ago
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Barbara Brotman In 1991, Jan Thompson attended a reunion of World War II veterans who were prisoners of war in the Philippines. She accompanied her father, one of those veterans. "I was just dumbfounded at what I heard," she said. "I walked out
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Ted Cook, survivor of Bataan Death March, dies at age 93
Tōkyō :: Japan | 1 month ago
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Ted Cook, 93, of Lexington, a World War II veteran who survived the Bataan Death March, died Thursday at Thomson-Hood Veterans Center in Wilmore...His company, the 17th Ordnance Co., was shipped to the Philippines in September 1941 and was
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WELLS: True meaning of Easter can still be found
Wells :: United Kingdom | 1 month ago
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True meaning of Easter can still be found Posted March 30, 2013 at 12:41 p.m. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by how much commercialism has needled its way into the holiest of all Christian holidays Easter. All week long, I've been bombarded by
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