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Efforts underway in Poland to preserve shoe remains from Holocaust victims

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Musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski says walking doesn’t feel right on the ground outside of what was once the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdańsk, Poland. He learned the reason for that—and is now doing something about...
The entrance to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Credit: Gubin Yury/Shutterstock.

Concentration-camp guard to stand trial for 3,518 murders between 1942 and 1945

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A former guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp who will stand trial in Germany this month is accused of being complicit in 3,518 murders, reported The Times. The 100-year-old man, whose name has not been released...
The entrance to the Bundesgerichtshof, the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe, Germany, the highest court in Germany. Credit: Shutterstock.

German prosecutors prepare dozen-plus cases against Nazi war-crime suspects

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Prosecutors in Germany are getting ready to bring forward more than a dozen legal cases against elderly men and women for their alleged work at Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust. Prosecutors confirmed last week that a...
Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, in December 1938. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

German court to try 100-year-old former Nazi guard

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A German court set a date to try a 100-year-old former Nazi SS guard who served at a concentration camp outside of Berlin during World War II, a spokeswoman for the Neuruppin state court...
Stutthof concentration camp in Poland. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

German court rules former Nazi concentration-camp guard, 96, ‘unfit’ to stand trial

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A court in Wuppertal, Germany, ruled on Wednesday that a 96-year-old former Nazi concentration-camp guard is “unfit to stand trial,” though noted that there is a “high degree of probability” that he is guilty...
Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, in December 1938. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Germany charges former Nazi concentration-camp guard with complicity in 3,518 murders

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Prosecutors in Germany charged a former 100-year-old Nazi concentration-camp guard for involvement in the murder of 3,518 people. They told AFP on Monday that the man is accused of “knowingly and willingly” assisting in the murder of...
The entrance to the Stutthof concentration camp in Poland, 2008. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

German court convicts 93-year-old SS guard

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A German court convicted a 93-year-old former concentration-camp guard on Thursday on 5,232 counts of accessory to murder. Bruno Dey, who served as a guard at the Stuthoff concentration camp during the final months of World...
The entrance to the Stutthof concentration camp in Poland, 2008. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Germany charges Nazi concentration-camp guard, 95, with war crimes

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A German court announced on Monday that a 95-year-old former Nazi concentration-camp guard was charged with war crimes during the Holocaust. The suspect was a guard at the Stutthof concentration camp in a wooded area near Danzig...
The entrance to the Stutthof concentration camp in Poland, 2008. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

SS guard, 92, to go on trial in Germany for Nazi crimes

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A 92-year-old former SS guard charged with helping murder 5,230 prisoners at a Nazi death camp in World War II will go on trial in October, prosecutors said on Thursday. Bruno Dey, whose full name will...