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The horror of Bergen-Belsen 80 years on: How British troops found 60,000 barely alive inmates when they liberated Nazi camp where Anne Frank died
They were scenes that brought home to the British people the full horror of Nazi depravity. Eighty years ago today the ...
I survived horror of Belsen concentration camp – 80 years on I can still smell stench of death as people died like flies
IT is the smell they still remember. Eight decades may have passed but they cannot forget the clawing stench of death. Today ...
German students make far-right salute at Auschwitz concentration camp
Four ninth-grade students from Germany have been photographed making a far-right extremist gesture during a visit to the ...
Review: In Berkeley Rep’S ‘Here There Are Blueberries,’ The Mystery Behind Riveting Holocaust-Era Photos Unfolds
The mystery of it all, and the questions it provoked, are meticulously detailed through the play's narrative. A colorblind cast of nine, playing multiple roles--from the museum's investigative team to ...
‘The furnaces were gagging’ - The Road to Auschwitz, Simon Schama’s powerful reminder that ordinary men are capable of extraordinary evil
Auschwitz, the enormous killing factory at the centre of the ‘final solution’, was liberated within living memory, just 80 years ago. Historian Simon Schama was born in London just two days after the ...
80 years after Edward R. Murrow revealed the horrors of Buchenwald, the camp still has a vital story to tell
CBS News' Edward R. Murrow was shocked by what he saw at the just-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. Work continues to ensure the world never forgets.
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How Bergen-Belsen, Where Anne Frank Died, Was Different From Every Other Nazi Concentration Camp
A new exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London chronicles the German camp complex's history, from its origins housing prisoners of war to its afterlife holding displaced persons ...
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Dutch Holocaust survivor Rodi Glass to speak in Cedar Rapids on narrow escapes from Nazi internment camps
Rodi Glass’s memories were discussed only during Sunday dinners or with the few survivors her family knew. But soon, Cedar ...
A mysterious photo album uncovered Auschwitz’s horrors. This play tells its story
Rebecca Erbelding spent as an archivist at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, she routinely heard from people offering to donate their letters, diaries and photographs from that era. The most common ...
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Connecticut ‘house of horrors’ revealed for first time as pictures show squalid hellhole where stepmom allegedly abused stepson for decades
The disturbing photos — released Monday by the Waterbury ... akin to a survivor of Auschwitz’s death camp.” Waterbury Police Chief Fernando Spagnolo called the details of the case ...
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Nazi Germany
World leaders rubbed shoulders with 56 survivors of Hitler's death camp as they marked 80 years since its liberation. It is 80 years since Soviet Union troops liberated Auschwitz - now marked as ...