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5 days ago · May 26, 2024. The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is more than just a museum – it is a powerful testament to the human spirit and a somber reminder of one of the darkest chapters in history. As a historian specializing in the Holocaust, I have always been deeply moved by Anne Frank‘s story and the enduring impact of her diary.
2 days ago · “The Commandant’s Shadow,” directed by Daniela Volker, tells two parallel stories. One is about Anita Lasker-Wallfish, a German-Jewish cellist and Auschwitz survivor who played in the camp band.
May 22, 2024 · The 116 pictures in Höcker’s album show the infamous concentration camp as he saw it and wanted to remember it forever. They show a place of casual conversation, Christmas celebrations, singing ...
May 7, 2024 · BBC correspondent Edward Ward was a prisoner of war in Italy and Germany from 1941 until 1945. He was captured in Libya, during the battle for Sidi Rezegh. The Germans took approximately 35,000 ...
May 8, 2024 · Charlotte Kaletta, who posthumously married Fritz Pfeffer in 1950 (with the marriage retroactively in effect from May 31, 1937 until his death in 1944), felt that the pseudonym and character of Mr. Dussel was injurious to Pfeffer's life, since he was in real life a master of Hebrew and far from ignorant of Jewish traditions, in contrast to ...
2 days ago · Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest —a fictionalized study of the domestic life of Rudolf Höss, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp commandant whose family lived right ...
3 days ago · 100-year-old WWII vet Hilbert Margol was a part of the 42nd Infantry Division that liberated the Dachau concentration camp on April 29, 1945.
