On Holocaust Remembrance Day King Charles and Camilla light candles King Charles III and Camilla light candles for Holocaust victims at Buckingham Palace. © Victoria Jones - WPA Pool/Getty Images Even the royals are not idle on Holocaust Remembrance Day. Charles and Camilla lit candles for the victims on Friday. King Charles III (74) and his wife Camilla (75) met with two survivors of the Nazi genocide at Buckingham Palace on Friday (January 27) to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day...
Very little, even in the 1920s, allows the intellectual republic to be so upset as the questioning of the singularity of the Holocaust. In times when not only anti-Semitic attacks are increasing, but also the last contemporary witnesses are dying, there are still too many good reasons for that. Accordingly, the current "historian dispute 2.0" has not been fought out for a long time: The thesis is not challenged from the right - as in the first historian dispute of...
Status: 01/27/2023 11:59 am With an hour of remembrance, the Bundestag for the first time specifically commemorated the persecution of queer people during the Nazi era. Many died as a result of forced labor and inhumane conditions in the concentration camps. On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Bundestag commemorated the victims of National Socialism in the morning. For the first time, the focus was on people who were persecuted by the National Socialists because of their...
National Socialism Bas commemorates queer Nazi victims on Holocaust Remembrance Day Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (SPD) during the memorial service for the victims of National Socialism in the German Bundestag. photo © Bernd von Jutrczenka/dpa On January 27, 1945, the Red Army liberated the survivors of the German concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz in occupied Poland. The victims of National Socialism are commemorated in many places today. On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Bundestag President Bärbel...
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...
Stanislaw Szmajzner, known as Shlomo, was sent to the Sobibor extermination camp at the age of 15. There he meets the brutal SS man Gustav Wagner. Shlomo's family is murdered in the gas chamber, he himself survives the Holocaust, also because Wagner chooses him as a goldsmith: he is to make jewelry for the SS. Decades later, in a police station in São Paulo, Brazil, Shlomo again faces Wagner, the beast from Sobibor. Does Shlomo, the survivor, seek justice -...
Commemorating Queer Victims Rozette Kats: This is the concentration camp survivor speaking on Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Bundestag Every year on January 27, the German Bundestag commemorates the victims of National Socialism. On this day in 1945, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated. (archive image) © epd / Imago Images The Bundestag commemorates the victims of National Socialism on Holocaust Remembrance Day. This time the focus is on the fate of persecuted sexual minorities. Holocaust survivor Rozette Kats addresses...
Status: 01/27/2023 06:01 a.m The National Socialists murdered at least 100,000 Ukrainian Jews in the Ukrainian city of Babyn Yar. Today more than ever, survivors and their descendants warn against forgetting. By Susanne Petersohn, WDR, currently Kyiv Babyn Yar in the middle of Kyiv - where today pedestrians stroll in a park, thickly wrapped up, the largest mass murder of Jews took place during the Second World War. At least 33,771 people were shot at this location within two days,...
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...
National Socialism Study: Holocaust is a myth for many Dutch people In the summer of 1942, Jews from the Warsaw ghetto were loaded onto freight cars and transported to the Treblinka extermination camp. photo © CAF/dpa Long queues are normal in front of the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam. But the knowledge of many younger Dutch people in particular about the Nazi persecution of the Jews is patchy. The extent of the Holocaust is unknown to many Dutch people, especially...
