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3 days ago · The Real 'Zone of Interest': The Nazi Officer Who Ran Auschwitz - and His Devoted Son 'The Commandant's Shadow' is an exceptional documentary that lays bare an uncomfortable truth: Life for the family of the death camp commander Höss was even more idyllic than the fictional take Jonathan Glazer presents in 'The Zone of Interest'
20 hours ago · Sometime in 1944, some 1,684 Hungarian Jews arrived in Switzerland from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, another 1,200 Jews from Theresienstadt concentration camp found safety in Switzerland and by February 1945, over 115,000 refugees of various types had made their way across the Swiss border to safety.
3 days ago · t. e. Jasenovac ( pronounced [jasěnoʋat͡s]) [6] was a concentration and extermination camp established in the village of the same name by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in occupied Yugoslavia during World War II. The concentration camp, one of the ten largest in Europe, was established and operated by the governing ...
3 days ago · In fact Eva was one of only three babies born at Mauthausen concentration camp who survived the Holocaust, and only because on the day she was born, weighing just 3lb, the gas chambers had run out ...
5 days ago · During the trial, Rudolf Hoss issued an affidavit confirming his crimes: “I declare herewith under oath that in the years 1941 to 1943 during my tenure in office as commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, two million Jews were put to death by gassing and a half million by other means. Rudolf Hoss, May 14, 1946.”
4 days ago · Fr. Kolbe, a Franciscan priest and missionary, was sent to Auschwitz in 1941. After a Polish prisoner tried to escape the camp on July 29, the SS security forces selected 10 prisoners to starve to death as a lesson for the entire camp. One of the prisoners chosen was Franciszek Gajowniczek, who asked for mercy.
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1 day ago · Join the Dakota County Historical Society and the Sibley Historic Site for August's Mendota After Hours: "Life in an American Concentration Camp: The Japanese American Experience During WWII" Hear a first-hand account of the Japanese-Americans who were interned in concentration camps in the United States during WWII. U.S. government policies ...
