Tag: Concentration Camps
US to deport former Nazi concentration-camp guard living in Tennessee
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday that a former Nazi concentration-camp guard who was living in Tennessee has been ordered to return to Germany.
Following a two-day trial, U.S. Immigration Judge Rebecca L. Holt issued...
Parade in Spain features Nazi costumes, float resembling Auschwitz entrance
A Holocaust-themed parade that took place in Spain recently featured participants dressed as Adolf Hitler and Nazi concentration-camp prisoners.
The display on Feb. 23 in Badajos followed similar processions the same week in Aalst, Belgium and Campo de Criptana, Spain.
During...
Artist’s series on display for first time in Croatia depicts Holocaust victims, partisans
An exhibition of 30 paintings and graphic works titled “Nazi Occupation in Graphic Works of Meer Axelrod” opened in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia—the first time the artist’s works have been shown in the...
Prime minister of Holland apologizes for nation’s role in wartime persecution of Jews
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Sunday became the first Dutch leader to officially apologize for his country’s role in the Holocaust.
Speaking at an event in Amsterdam to mark the 75th anniversary of the...
Auschwitz 1942: The story behind my missing grandparents
As a child growing up in the small English town that offered refuge for my parents in their flight from the Nazis, I was acutely aware of many differences between my own family and...
Senior Saudi religious leader leads Muslim delegation on visit to Auschwitz
A senior Saudi religious leader led a delegation of Muslim leaders on a visit of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland on Thursday timed to the 75th anniversary of its liberation.
Sheikh Mohammed al-Issa,...
Congressional delegation visits Auschwitz ahead of 75th anniversary of liberation
A congressional delegation, led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), visited Auschwitz on Tuesday ahead of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration and extermination camp.
Pelosi laid a wreath at the “Death...
New photos show convicted guard John Demjanjuk at Nazi death camp
New pictures show convicted Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk at Sobibor, where he denied ever being a guard there—reportedly the first time that he has been identified in photos at the death camp.
The images...
Amid surging anti-Semitism, 75th commemoration of Auschwitz liberation comes at crucial time
“To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” ― Elie Wiesel, “Night”
Seventy-five: It’s the average lifespan of an American male...
Why the bombing Auschwitz argument still matters
In his 1989 book From Beirut to Jerusalem, columnist Thomas Friedman of The New York Times, wrote, “Israel is becoming Yad Vashem with an Air Force.” That line represents the kind of smart-alecky analysis that helped build...