Tag: Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp memorial
Bavaria: The war criminal of Pielenhofen – Bavaria
For decades, a picture of a man in an SS uniform hung in the monastery church. This was a war criminal sentenced to death who sent people to the gas…
audiobook "letters from hell": Acoustic monument
The men of the Jewish special command in Auschwitz left secrets that testify to the horror of the Shoah. Pavel Polian gives them a voice. source site
Live stream: Bundestag commemorates the victims of National Socialism – politics
Mickey Levy is the first speaker of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, to address the plenary session. Holocaust survivor Inge Auerbacher will also give a speech. Follow the commemoration in…
Auschwitz survivor Erna de Vries: Oliver Polak says goodbye – culture
On Sunday morning I was woken up by a WhatsApp message from my mother: “Sad news, today Erna died. She turned 98, one of the very last witnesses to the…
Erna de Vries died – culture
The Holocaust survivor and contemporary witness Erna de Vries is dead. She died early Sunday morning in her house in Lathen in Emsland, her daughter Ruth de Vries confirmed on…
Peter Gardosch: The boy who survived Auschwitz – Dachau
“At 13 through hell” – that’s the name of his book. It was published in 2019 and the title sums up what happened to Dachau survivor Peter Johann Gardosch quite…