Tag: Holocaust survivors
Janina David is dead – culture
When Janina David was 28 years old, she sat down and wrote. Up until then, her life had had unimaginable depths and had taken her to the other end of…
Auschwitz: Virtual Tour for School Classes – Politics
The Auschwitz Birkenau Foundation is working on live guided tours via app. This would allow people all over the world to visit the memorials virtually. Visiting a school class testing…
The novel “The Postcard” by Anne Berest – culture
In her impressive book “The Postcard”, the French author Anne Berest traces her family history, from Auschwitz to present-day Paris – which is also not free from anti-Semitism. Anne only…
audio edition "The sources speak": The legacy
With the final season of “The Sources Speak”, BR concludes its outstanding audio project about the persecution and murder of European Jews. source site
Sally Perel is dead: “Hitlerjunge Salomon” was 97 years old – culture
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…
Holocaust Remembrance Day: Bundestag commemorates victims of National Socialism
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.…
A documentary about the history of Shlomo Szmajzner – Medien
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…
Yad Vashem exhibition in the Bundestag – culture
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…
DLF radio play "babyn jar": This is getting painful now
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.…
Judgment against secretary in Stutthof concentration camp: The typist – politics
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…