Sally Perel was an impressive storyteller. He was born in Peine in Lower Saxony in 1925, was expelled from school ten years later, the family business was destroyed, the family fled first to Lodz and then to the west of the country after the invasion of Poland. In 1941 he was captured there and presented himself to the Wehrmacht soldiers as an "ethnic German".He described the moment countless times, especially at the readings that he tirelessly gave at German schools...
Nationwide, the victims of National Socialism are commemorated this Friday. There was a commemoration in the Bundestag. Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) also took part. The focus of the commemoration was on people who were persecuted by the National Socialists because of their sexual orientation or identity.Bundestag President Bärbel Bas opened the special event in Parliament. "Many in Germany think we've already dealt with the Shoah enough," she said. That is a mistake. "There can...
A documentary about the incredible story of Shlomo Szmajzner, a survivor of the Sobibor death camp, clarifies the question of whether he was responsible for the death of SS man Gustav Wagner.from Aurelie von BlazekovicThere are scenes, soberly captured on camera, that are so unbelievable that you can't believe how a couple of journalists could just stand around, do their job, take notes and record them. The camera was that of a Brazilian television station in 1978, and the events...
The Bundestag is exhibiting 16 objects from victims of the Nazi persecution of the Jews, such as Lore Mayerfeld's doll. The Israeli is one of the last who can still bear witness.from Boris Herrman source site
In Babyn Yar near Kyiv, the Wehrmacht committed the most terrible single crime of the Second World War. A radio play comes close to the events in a special way. source site
65,000 people were gassed, shot and torn by dogs in the Stutthof concentration camp. The secretary Irmgard F. accepted it, says the judge. The verdict is two years probation. The question remains: why so late?Of Renate Meinhof, ItzehoeFor the last time she is pushed into the hall in a wheelchair. A slender woman in beige, her beret in her curls, her jacket not removed, as if she must be ready to leave at any time. And yet Irmgard F. seems...
Eva Runde was born in a labor camp and almost starved to death in Auschwitz at the age of two. Today she is in greater demand than ever, traveling to performances across the country to tell her story. Now she is 80 years old. source site
Of Fritz Goettler"She often laughs between her complaints," the mother says at the beginning of this book: "She is happy. I listen to her laughter. She laughs for nothing. This nothingness is a lot. Sometimes she even laughs in the morning. She wakes up tired up, but she wakes up and starts the day." What this mother's laughter means, where it comes from, what it hides, what it can provoke is played out in the book, leaving empty, unexplained passages,...
With the "Luxembourg Agreement" in 1952, Germany committed itself to paying compensation for the persecution of the Jews. Impressions of the ceremony with harp accompaniment. source site
He has big plans for this trip, as you can see when Jair Lapid gets on the plane in Tel Aviv. Shortly before leaving for Berlin, Israel's prime minister opened the weekly cabinet meeting with surprising and, from an Israeli point of view, good news: At least in the near future there will probably be no new international nuclear agreement with arch-enemy Iran. Now he climbs up the gangway, and at his side there is a very unusual delegation. Five...
