While in operation between June 1940 and January 1945 only 196 of the 928 men, women and children who attempted to escape from Auschwitz concentration camp were successful.
The 20th century was a time of enormous technological and cultural changes, including two world wars and the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Karl Höcker’s album shows SS officers at events ranging from ceremonies to social gatherings, in stark contrast to other photographs from Auschwitz. Learn more.
1. Gay male victims of the Holocaust, who wore the downward-facing pink triangle, were still considered to be criminals when they were freed from concentration camps. They were often sent back to prison to serve out their terms.
Francisco Boix, fotógrafo español, robó fotos que se usaron como prueba en Núremberg. Se cumplen 70 años de la liberación del campo
On the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims, we should not only remember the victims of the Holocaust but also consider how to prevent similar atrocities from occurring.
As the world commemorates the Liberation of Auschwitz after 75 years, strange things are happening. At Remember.org we focus on people's history, not the political games or storytelling surrounding the events at Auschwitz. On the 75th year since the Liberation of Auschwitz, we explore what it is to study the Holocaust, and learn instead of using it for political purposes.
A sequel to the post that reimagined the story we tell ourselves about the Holocaust. Now with a new mission: to create a new narrative for the present.
Near the end of the war in 1945, Jewish prisoners from the Bergen-Belsen death camp were being transported by rail to another camp when their German guards abandoned the train. The US Army happened upon the survivors. Two soldiers took photographs. And from those pictures, decades later something wonderful happened. Matthew Rozell is a … Continue reading "The True Story of The Holocaust Train Rescued From The Heart of Darkness – Friday, April 13th, 1945"
Today, I am blogging about a news article, which you can read in full here. The following quote is from the article, which was written by Tom Morton: Eva [Moses] Kor and a hundred others stood sle…
Saturday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. "To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time." —Elie Wiesel
Three new films attempt to address the Holocaust. But can cinema ever hope to adequately confront humanity’s darkest chapter?
Einsatzgruppen, units of the Nazi security forces that acted as mobile killing units during the German invasions of Poland (1939) and the Soviet Union (1941). These units confiscated political and governmental materials and identified and arrested Jews, Freemasons, Communists, and others targeted by the Nazi regime.
Wiener Holocaust Library in London has gathered testimonies and photographs of forced evacuations at end of second world war
Ruth Franklin on Jane Yolen’s “Mapping the Bones,” which reflects the way the Holocaust-fiction genre she helped to create has changed.
Lo creó un ingeniero de Google, buscando información sobre su abuela, sobreviviente de un campo de concentración; creó una base de datos de rostros que aparecen en las fotos y los compara con las imágenes actuales de sobrevivientes o que fueron provistas por familiares para encontarr similitudes
