Tag: Auschwitz
Munich: An exhibition by Polish artists about the traces of the Shoah. – Munich
Anyone who digs deep enough into the ground in Warsaw will sooner or later come across the past. That means on the outlines of old buildings. On the cobblestones of…
Claude Bloch, last Lyon survivor of Auschwitz, is dead
A survivor of the Auschwitz camp where he was interned as a teenager, Claude Bloch from Lyon died at the age of 95, the mayor of Lyon Grégory Doucet announced…
Prantl’s view: 60 years of the Auschwitz trial – politics
The Auschwitz trial began sixty years ago. This was, for twenty months, a look into hell on earth. Sixty years ago, shortly before Christmas, a criminal trial began that had…
Auschwitz survivors persevere in Kiev despite the war
As of: December 21, 2023 12:02 p.m Anastasia Gulei survived German extermination camps – and now fears for her life in Russian attacks. The 97-year-old was temporarily in Germany after…
Auschwitz trial 60 years ago: Why there were even acquittals
December 20, 1963 When the perpetrators of Auschwitz came to trial – and then some were acquitted The first Auschwitz trial opens in the plenary hall of the Frankfurt city…
60 years of the Auschwitz trial: The German past on trial
As of: December 20, 2023 6:28 a.m German post-war society suppressed Nazi history instead of facing its own responsibility. It was therefore not a given that the Auschwitz trial could…
Valérie Pécresse withdraws the Simone Veil prize from Zineb El Rhazoui
“I have decided, in agreement with the rights holders of Simone Veil, to withdraw, on behalf of the Ile-de-France region, the Simone Veil prize from Zineb El Rhazoui,” wrote Valérie…
Magda Hollander-Lafon, one of the last survivors of Auschwitz, has died
She died at the Saint-Laurent polyclinic in Rennes. The writer Magda Hollander-Lafon died on Saturday at the age of 95. Born into a Jewish family in Hungary in 1927, she…
“German House” series: Author Hess on Auschwitz and anti-Semitism
The Disney series “Deutsches Haus” tells of the great Frankfurt trial against SS murderers, which showed the Germans the horror of the Shoah 60 years ago. Screenwriter Annette Hess on…
Auschwitz Trials: The Horror of the Truth
The conference “60 Years of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial” in Berlin tells of the coming to terms with the Nazi era in East and West Germany. source site