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3 days ago · Sobibor was guarded by approximately 400 watchmen. Survivors often refer to them as blackies, Askaris, or Ukrainians (even though many were not Ukrainian). They were captured Soviet prisoners of war who had volunteered for the SS in order to escape the abominable conditions in Nazi POW camps.
- 170,000–250,000
- SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor
3 days ago · The films span a range of genres, with documentary films including footage filmed both by the Germans for propaganda and by the Allies, compilations, survivor accounts and docudramas, and narrative films including war films, action films, love stories, psychological dramas, and even comedies. [1]
May 5, 2024 · For Judith Tzamir, a Holocaust survivor from Germany who moved to Israel in 1964, the horrors of Oct. 7 prompted her to mark the sombre holiday by making a pilgrimage she has long avoided: She...
May 15, 2024 · May 15, 2024. It's the last episode before the finale on Survivor 46. And, as was talked about prominently in this week's episode, it's time to weigh up your previous alliances versus who you...
2 days ago · Responsibility for the Holocaust is the subject of an ongoing historical debate that has spanned several decades. The debate about the origins of the Holocaust is known as functionalism versus intentionalism. Intentionalists such as Lucy Dawidowicz argue that Adolf Hitler planned the extermination of the Jewish people as early as 1918 and ...
May 3, 2024 · Tibor “Ted” Rubin, the only survivor of the Nazi genocide to earn the Medal of Honor, died in Garden Grove, California, on December 5, 2015.
May 6, 2024 · The National Archives at College Park, MD, holds records pertaining to several World War II Nazi concentration camps including Buchenwald, Dachau, Flossenberg, Nordhausen, Mauthausen, and their subcamps or satellite camps, such as Mühldorf camp complex, Ohrdruf , Langenstein-Zwieberge , Ebensee, Gusen camp complex, and others.
