Tag: concentration camps
Netflix to Edit Demjanjuk Docuseries After Pressure by Polish Government
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said in a letter to Netflix CEO Reed Hastings that the program showed maps that place Nazi concentration camps within the borders of modern-day Poland.
13M Documents from Nazi Concentration Camps Online
“Soon there won’t be any survivors left to tell us about them. That is why it is so important that the original documents can speak. . ."
Former Chief Rabbi: Poles ‘Shot Selves in Foot’ with Holocaust Law
“The thousands of Righteous Gentiles were not the rule. They were the exception that proved the rule.”
German Prosecutors Say No Clemency for ‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’
Groening said in 2015 that he would not ask forgiveness from survivors or victims’ families. “I can only ask my God for forgiveness,” he said.
World’s Oldest Holocaust Survivor Stars in Oscar-Nominated Film
If there is one movie that must be seen, it is the documentary of a Holocaust survivor now 110.
Rare Color Footage of the Liberation of Buchenwald and Dachau
This video shows the Liberation of the Buchenwald and Dachau Concentration Camps. Watch the German Townspeople who were ordered by the Americans to go to the camps and watch.
A Call to Action: Shut Down the Claims Conference
After helping themselves to large salaries and allowing fraud to persist under their noses for over a decade, the Claims Conference is too broke to serve the survivors.
Survivor of North Korean Jail Warns of ‘Holocaust-Era Inaction’
One reason six million Jews were butchered, starved and gassed was the sound of silence of media and governments who knew the truth. A North Korean prison survivor fears history is repeating itself.
Germany Arrests One of 10 Most Wanted Nazis
German police arrested on Monday one of the 10 most wanted Nazis, 93-year-old Hans Lipschis, who is facing charges of complicity in murder as...
Amsterdam Fined Holocaust Survivors for Unpaid Taxes while Hiding
The City of Amsterdam fined hundreds of Jewish Holocaust survivors as late as 1947 for failing to pay taxes while they were in hiding...
Last Survivor of Plot to Kill Hitler Dies at 90
Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist, who was a Nazi Germany army lieutenant volunteered to blew himself up along with Hitler, died at his Munich home as...
Sour Sound of Music: Vienna Philharmonic’s Nazi Past
The Vienna Philharmonic had low level Nazi Party members, but also officials with the SS, one of whom turned over more than a dozen orchestra members, at least five of whom perished in Nazi concentration camps. After the war, that Nazi official become the orchestra's executive director.
Bulgaria Commemorates 70 Years of Saving Its Jews
Unlike most other Nazi allies or Nazi -occupied countries, Bulgaria saved its entire Jewish population from deportation to concentration camps.