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Milan’s Holocaust Memorial now a shelter for African refugees
70 years ago, the notorious Platform 21 was used to load Jews on boxcars headed for death. Today, the same space houses those who have fled their countries seeking life.
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Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes
Genetic changes stemming from the trauma suffered by Holocaust survivors are capable of being passed on to their children, the clearest sign yet that one person’s life experience can affect subsequent generations. The conclusion from a research team at New York’s Mount Sinai hospital led by Rachel Yehuda stems from the genetic study of 32 Jewish men and women who had either been interned in a Nazi...
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Auschwitz mist showers anger visitors
The visitor center at the Auschwitz concentration camp is being criticized by visitors who were shocked to see showers set up outside of the Polish site over the weekend. For some, the cooling stations offered a dark reminder of the camp's horrifying past. As the area suffered from severe heat, the site's managers set up misting showers to keep visitors cool as temperatures soared well into the 90s.
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Day in Auschwitz (2015)
Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination concentration/extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory), and 45 satellite camps.
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91-Year-Old German Woman Charged on Nazi Allegations
German prosecutors say they've charged a 91-year-old woman with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder on allegations she was a member of the Nazi SS who served in the Auschwitz death camp complex. Schleswig-Holstein prosecutors' spokesman Heinz Doellel said Monday the woman, whose name wasn't disclosed due to German privacy laws, is alleged to have served as a radio operator for the camp commandant from April to July 1944.
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Woman, 91, Charged Over 260,000 Deaths At Auschwitz
A 91-year-old woman has been charged with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder over allegations she was part of the Nazi SS serving in the Auschwitz death camp.
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Ben Carson says guns may have stopped Holocaust
"The likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed," he told CNN on Thursday. An anti-Semitism monitoring group says linking US gun control to the Holocaust is "historically inaccurate".
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Devoted to Terror: How the Camps Were Run
Thomas Laqueur reviews “KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps” by Nikolaus Wachsmann.
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Study of Holocaust survivors finds trauma passed on to children's genes
New finding is clear example in humans of the theory of epigenetic inheritance: the idea that environmental factors can affect the genes of your children
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Jack Yufe dies at 82; he was raised Jewish, his identical twin as a Nazi
It sounded like a tabloid headline: Identical twins separated after birth. One grew up Jewish, the other a Nazi.
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German court declares 95-year-old Auschwitz paramedic fit for trial
A German appeals court has cleared the way for the trial of a 95-year-old man accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 3,681 people at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp. The higher court of Rostock in northern Germany deemed Hubert Z fit for trial, reversing a decision by a lower court that considered him too fragile for a legal process.
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Darkness at Noon: FDR and the Holocaust
What did the era’s most prominent symbol of humanitarianism think when confronted with the world’s most compelling moral outrage? History records only a question mark. By Jay Winik.
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Holocaust survivor becomes world's oldest man at 112
More than 70 years ago Yisrael Kristal was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. Today he is the world's oldest man, at 112, Guinness World Records has announced. Kristal was born on September 15, 1903 in what is now Poland, but was western Russia at the time. His birth preceded the Wright brothers' first flight by three months. He lived through both world wars, surviving World War II in the Warsaw ghetto, until being sent to Auschwitz in 1944.
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The architect of the Reich
On the architectural horror of Albert Speer. By Michael J. Lewis.
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Holocaust escape tunnel discovery a blow against deniers: “It was dug out by spoons. By people who were shackled around the ankles”
The awful story of the Nazi treatment of European Jews may be most awful in Lithuania, then a part of the Soviet Union in which 95 percent of the Jewish population was killed. But a recent discovery near the nation’s capital, Vilnius, offers a glimmer of something a bit brighter: a tunnel through which a handful of Jews, awaiting execution underground, were able to escape. The tunnel’s exact location was only confirmed this month, as archeologists investigated near the place where 100,000 people...
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Elie Wiesel Visits Disneyland
The Holocaust survivor’s under-appreciated journalistic work for ‘The Forverts,’ unearthed—including a dispatch from The Happiest Place on Earth. By Menachem Butler.
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Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and renowned Holocaust survivor, dies at 87
Author and human rights activist made perpetuating the memory of the Shoah his life's work.
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My Resistance to Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel helped turn the horrors of the Holocaust into an industry of manipulative sentimentality. By Corey Robin.
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Diaries of Holocaust Architect Heinrich Himmler Discovered in Russia
At the end of World War II, the Red Army grabbed documents and souvenirs from German military installations around Berlin. Much of that material was placed in military archives behind the Iron Curtain and was inaccessible to researchers from the West. But in recent years, the Russians have opened some of their archives and digitized many of their documents. Recently, one set of documents of particular importance came to light: 1,000 pages of diary entries from Heinrich Himmler, considered Hitler’s number two and the architect of the Holocaust.
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The improbable story of the man who won history’s ‘biggest murder trial’ at Nuremberg
Ben Ferencz is giving millions to the Holocaust museum to promote world peace. By Karen Heller.
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