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21 photos commemorating the liberation of Auschwitz and a tweet quoting Pres. Obama Twitchy 1/27/2015 …Survivors, dignitaries and world leaders including Prime Minister David Cameron of the U.K. gathered in Poland today to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The BBC reports: Those who survived Auschwitz lived through one […] January 27th, 2015 | Tags: Adolph Hitler, Alfred Hitchcock, Ann McElhinney, Auschwitz, concentration camps, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Holocaust, Poland | Category: Barack Obama, Europe, Fascism, Germany, History, Nazis, World War II | Comments are closed
Alice Herz-Sommer, who lived in London and was originally from Prague, was held in a concentration camp in Germany during the Second World War
Alice Herz-Sommer believed to be the oldest-known survivor of the Holocaust, died in London on Sunday morning at the age of 110 Photo: AP
The Telegraph […] February 24th, 2014 | Tags: ‘The lady in number 6′, Adolph Hitler, Alice Herz-Sommer, concentration camps, Czechoslovakia, London, music, obituary | Category: Great Britain, Nazis, World War II | Comments are closed
It’s a little known fact that the great director made a film about the Nazi death camps – but, horrified by the footage he saw, the documentary was never shown. Now it is to be released. Geoffrey Macnab reports
Geoffrey Macnab The Independent 8 January 2014 The British Army Film Unit […] January 8th, 2014 | Tags: "Mein Kampf", "Memory of the Camps", Adolph Hitler, Alfred Hitchcock, Bergen-Belsen, British Army Film Unit, concentration camps, Holocaust, Imperial War Museum, Trevor Howard | Category: Germany, Great Britain, History, Nazis, Russia, World War II | Comments are closed
Always On Watch The Astute Bloggers 1/27/2013 Never forget. _ _ Never again. There’s also a fourteen minute video at The Astute Bloggers, “Holocaust Survivor Refelctions: Stories of Courage.” Update: Sunday Times Blood Libel Cartoon Published On Holocaust Memorial Day Disgusting. […] January 27th, 2013 | Tags: 'blood libel', anti-semitism, Auschwitz, concentration camps, Holocaust, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Poland | Category: Europe, Germany, Great Britain, History, Nazis, Video, World War II | Comments are closed
“Don’t know much about history…” 29 May 2012 And you thought awarding the cherished Medal of Freedom to a well-known socialist was the indignity of the day. It might be, but this runs a close second: “The president referred to ‘Polish death camps’ while awarding a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Polish professor Jan Karski, […] May 29th, 2012 | Tags: Chicago, concentration camps, Jan Karski, Medal of Freedom, Minister of Foreign Affairs Radek Sikorski, missile defense, NATO, Poland, President Bronislaw Komorowski, Soviet Union, Tommy Vietor, Twitter, voters | Category: Barack Obama, Europe, History, Illinois, Nazis, World War II | Comments are closed
John Demjanjuk, the Nazi prison camp guard convicted of the murder of 27,900 Jews, has died in a German nursing home. The Telegraph 17 Mar 2012 The Ukrainian-born Demjanjuk was found guilty of accessory to murder in May 2011, in what was billed as Germany’s last major war crimes trial. He was a guard at […] March 17th, 2012 | Tags: concentration camps, Jews, John Demjanjuk, Poland, Sobobor, Treblinka, war crimes | Category: Crime, Germany, Nazis, Ohio, United States, World War II | Comments are closed
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