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2012/05/17 04:45

Excruciating details emerge on Jewish ghettos

3 hours ago ON The Times Herald

... every site of organized Nazi persecution, beyond the well-known extermination camps like auschwitz. It �gives us information about ghettos that would slip into historical oblivion and be...

2012/05/17 04:45

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2012/05/16 15:56

Arno Lustiger, historian and Holocaust survivor, dies at 88

16 hours ago ON JTA

... World War II." Lustiger, a native of Bendzin, survived six concentration camps, including auschwitz and Buchenwald. His father and brother were murdered. In April 1945, Lustiger escaped a...

2012/05/16 15:49

Eyes opened in blind school

16 hours ago ON The Border Mail

... obvious to Emma Hallam as when she tried to describe a room of thousands of shoes at the auschwitz concentration camp to a group of blind students.Volunteer teaching at an institute for the...

Emma Hallam Charles Sturt University Albury Entertainment Centre Albury Entertainment Centre Volunteering

2012/05/16 14:03

#71569 Speaks. Cross Listens

18 hours ago ON New Haven Independent

... 200 students heard Number 71569—aka Anita Schorr—describe how she survived Terezin, auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen through hope and perseverance. “I am not here to have you pity me,”...

Anita Schorr Karen Robinson Anti-Defamation League Wilbur Cross High School Diana Dima

2012/05/16 01:54

A conversation with Anne Frank’s cousin | Culture

yesterday ON The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles

... broken in May 1945, in a telegram from Otto Frank. He had been liberated by Soviet troops in auschwitz, although his wife, Edith, had perished, and he was starting the search for his two...

Buddy Anne Frank Helen Elias Gerti Jonathan Kirsch

2012/05/15 16:34

Neo-Nazi chief denies gas chambers existed

yesterday ON iol.co.za

FILE PHOTO - General view of the main gate of the auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The head of the Greek neo-Nazi party elected to parliament during May 6 elections has denied in an interview...

2012/05/15 13:59

The Greek Neo Nazi Manifesto

yesterday ON Zero Hedge

... the joo bankers weren't so freaking evil these people couldn't find support. I guess auschwitz was a bakery if you believed this guy. Greece is in for big trouble. I don't know if they...

2012/05/15 04:44

Liberty presents Holocaust drama

2 days ago ON The Youngstown Vindicator

The other locations are in Zanesville, Seattle, Iowa, Arizona and London. “Mauthausen to auschwitz,” an exhibit of photos, memorabilia and a scale model of the Mauthausen concentration...

Liberty High School J.E. Ballantyne Jr. A Light in the Darkness Eva Schloss Hope During

2012/05/14 23:20

Harper, Poland PM talk oil and gas

2 days ago ON Calgary Sun

... roll back tax barriers and boost trade. Canada also committed $400,000 to helping preserve the auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Site in Poland. Both prime ministers commented on the case of a...

2012/05/14 21:55

The Tyee – Polish PM expresses commitment to battered euro after talks with Harper

2 days ago ON The Tyee

... signed a new tax convention during the visit. Ottawa also announced a $400,000 grant for the auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, the memorial that stands on the site of Nazi concentration camps in...

2012/05/14 14:30

Austerity Driving European Politics to Chilling Extremes

2 days ago ON Boise Weekly

... radicalization has ominous historical overtones. On a visit to the Nazi extermination camp at auschwitz on Wednesday, Belgian Prime Minister Elio di Rupo compared the current economic slump with...

2012/05/14 10:12

Holocaust survivor to share survival tale in Manito

2 days ago ON The Pekin Daily Times

... the “Final Solution” of the Hungarian Jews. The Hungarian Jews were deported to auschwitz Birkenau including Magda and her family on June 11, 1944 (her 17th birthday). We welcome...

Magda Brown Forman Center Forman Center Manito Historical Society Midwest Central High School History League

2012/05/13 13:39

Holocaust survivor stands tall amid toll of abuse

3 days ago ON San Francisco Chronicle

... to stand at all is amazing, say Lyon and her doctors. She was only 14 when she was sent to auschwitz, and more than a year of malnutrition and hard labor left her near death, and in chronic,...

Gloria Lyon Anita Friedman San Francisco

2012/05/13 09:09

Amazing story of jailed swindler turned Hollywood sensation

3 days ago ON Daily Record

... Ray Winstone tipped for the lead role. Based on real events, it tells the story of an auschwitz prisoner who survives by cultivating honey for the camp commander. Ashton wrote The...

Michael Ashton Salvation Army Koestler Trust DUNDEE Roland Joffe

2012/05/13 08:12

Helen Lederer: My cousin, the survivor

4 days ago ON Daily Telegraph

... mercifully died just three weeks in to their “stay”. The rest of my family went from here to auschwitz. And so did I. Standing in one of the barracks, I felt an even bigger chill. Four hundred...

Frantisek Lederer Arnost Lederer Terezin Karl Theresienstadt

2012/05/13 04:23

'Find another way to dream it': 387 graduate from UMF

4 days ago ON The Lewiston Sun Journal

Poland, during her time at UMF, will now return to Poland to volunteer with youth groups at the auschwitz Concentration Camp Education Center. Olympic gold medalist Seth Wescott and Maine Poet...

2012/05/13 00:37

The lampshade that drives its owners mad: Strange truth behind 20th century's most disturbing object

4 days ago ON Independent

... such accessories that she was nicknamed "The Lady of the Lampshade". The Holocaust museum at auschwitz houses two tons of human hair, used by high-ranking Nazis to stuff cushions. The problem...

2012/05/12 11:02

Victims die off, but we mustn't forget

4 days ago ON Nevada Appeal

... “March of the Living” with over 6,000 youth from around the world. We walked in silence from auschwitz to Birkenau, less than a mile. The horror we had seen was indelibly imprinted in our...

Marilee Swirczek Western Nevada College Western Nevada College Davidson Academy University of Nevada

2012/05/12 09:12

Fascists launch the offensive against European Union

4 days ago ON Pravda

... to say that Le Pen has organized a ball on the day of the 67th anniversary of the liberation of auschwitz concentration camp, where six million Jews were destroyed. Nazism is moving forward. In...

Angela Merkel David Cameron Sarkozy French National Front Nazi Party

2012/05/12 06:43

Lexington essay winners help others remember the Holocaust | Faith & Values

5 days ago ON Lexington Herald-Leader

... to speaking to students in Kentucky about her experiences in concentration camps at auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. The project is an effort to continue her life's work, said her son...

Adolf Hitler Many Jews George Szekely Ohavay Zion Synagogue the University of Kentucky

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