‘Zone of Interest’ Nazi house to become center to combat antisemitism
I cannot imagine a more symbolic form of justice... than turning what was once a breeding ground for evil into a space that ...
Auschwitz commander's home open to the public, converted into center for Holocaust history
The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has ...
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How the Family From Everyone’s Favorite Musical Actually Came to America
Nazis occupied the family home in Salzburg, which became Heinrich Himmler’s headquarters during World War II. In spring 1938, Nazi emissaries, “teenagers on motorcycles,” demanded that the ...
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A Former Nazi “Paradise” Will Be Transformed into a Global Center for Combatting Antisemitism
The former Polish residence of the Nazi commandant at Auschwitz will soon open its doors to the public as a center dedicated ...
After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left. One man makes telling the stories his mission
Fürst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share first-person accounts of the horrors they endured, as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the ...
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Survivor speaks on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, 80th anniversary of Auschwitz Liberation
SS chief Heinrich Himmler was the mastermind of what’s ... including Auschwitz-Birkenau. Of his family of 7, only he and his sister survived. His brother was murdered for forging documents ...
Holocaust survivors recall horrors of Auschwitz as Prince William and Kate attend London memorial
On the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, 98-year-old survivor Marian Turski addresses the commemoration in Poland.
Auschwitz survivor makes telling the stories his mission
A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps as a young boy will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since the liberation of one of the Nazi's most ...
Holocaust survivor: ‘I saw normal people in Auschwitz and I saw sadists there who killed people’
The legal struts of these principles were forged in the Allied-run Nuremberg trials of surviving Nazis, including international law and human rights. Germany’s postwar Basic Law or constitution ...
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After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left. One man makes telling the stories his mission
Strokes of luck Fürst and his family arrived at the entrance to Auschwitz on Nov. 3, 1944 -– one day after Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the cessation of the use of the gas chambers ...
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After 80 years, few Auschwitz survivors are left. One man is telling its stories
Fürst and his family arrived at the entrance to Auschwitz on Nov. 3, 1944 -– one day after Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the cessation of the use of the gas chambers ahead of their demolition, ...