Tag: Holocaust
Holocaust survivor Stefan Jerzy Zweig dies at the age of 83
As of: April 7, 2024 1:14 p.m He was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp when he was only three years old, but was saved from murder by fellow prisoners.…
Prison in the Netherlands: "Huge mistake"
Oblivious to history or pragmatic? A new high-security wing is to be built in the Netherlands – on the site of the former Herzogenbusch concentration camp. source site
Germany wants to include Holocaust questions for citizenship
Notice to applicants for the acquisition of German nationality. Berlin plans to introduce questions on the Holocaust, Israel and Judaism into its tests, in particular in response to the rise…
"One Life" in the cinema: So many lives
A great actor as a savior of the Jews – can that work? In “One Life” Anthony Hopkins plays the “British Schindler” Nicholas Winton. source site
Leo Baeck Institute opens its archives to writers like Dana von Suffrin – Culture
In order to preserve the memory of the life and intellectual history of the Jews of Central Europe before the Shoah, German-Jewish emigrants founded the Leo Baeck Institute in New…
Historical review: "Fences and stooges in the financial holocaust"
From the Reichsbank to the Bundesbank: A study shows that monetary authorities were able to continue their careers in the Nazi dictatorship in the Federal Republic after the end of…
Bavarian State Opera: Mieczysław Weinberg’s Auschwitz opera “The Passenger” – Culture
Can you show Auschwitz on an opera stage? David Pountney, then director of the Bregenz Festival, answered the question with a resounding yes when he published “The Passenger” by Mieczysław…
"The Zone of Interest" at the Oscars: Holocaust entertainment? Without me!
Jonathan Glazer’s Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest” with Sandra Hülser and Christian Friedel is nominated for five Oscars. Nevertheless, our author would never watch such a film. He simply…
Protests at the opening of the Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam
As of: March 10, 2024 5:50 p.m A museum in Amsterdam now commemorates the persecution of Dutch Jews. Israel’s President Herzog was also present at the opening. There were protests…
The Netherlands’ first Holocaust museum opens in Amsterdam – Culture
With every tram that passed through the “Plantage Middenlaan” during the German occupation of the Netherlands, there was briefly a little hope. This avenue, which runs from the east of…