David Dushman, the last surviving soldier who participated in the liberation of the Nazi death camp in Auschwitz, died at 98 years old, writes the BBC. Dushman, a Jewish Red Army veteran who later became an Olympic fencer, died in Germany on Saturday 5 June. At the age of 21, ...
International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust, one of the most terrible tragedies of humanity, is approaching. But we would like to remember those who survived the hell in the concentration camps, but in the end were able not only to get back on their feet with dignity, but also to become famous. Their…
In the chimney of one of the furnaces on the territory of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, personal belongings of prisoners of the 17th block were found, in which, judging by the documents, prisoners of applied professions were kept, writes the BBC. Among the items found were knives, forks, scraps of leather, scissors and more...
The BBC publication tells the incredible stories of the life and survival of some of the last witnesses of the Holocaust. These women, and then little girls, survived miraculously. But their struggle did not end there. Each of them found their own difficult path to get used to peaceful...
The FSB of Russia has declassified unique materials about the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Basically, these are protocols of interrogations of former guards, which tell about the horrors experienced by the prisoners of the death camp, writes the Rubaltic edition. Among the documents are the diagrams of the gas chambers, descriptions of how prisoners were treated, information ...
The Holocaust survivor celebrated her 104th birthday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem last week - and was photographed surrounded by some 400 of her descendants, including her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. 104-year-old Shoshana Ovitz survived a concentration camp...
He faces up to 10 years in prison. A 37-year-old tourist from the United States tried to steal from the Auschwitz museum a historical artifact in the form of a railroad crutch attaching a rail to a railroad tie, but he was detained by the museum rangers and handed over to the police, writes TJournal. The offender was temporarily released, he ...
Former SS non-commissioned officer Oskar Groening, known as the "accountant of Auschwitz", has died aged 96 in a hospital in Germany. Lenta.ru reported this on Monday, March 12, with reference to the German publication Spiegel. In July 2015, SS man Groening was found guilty of aiding...
The Polish court of Auschwitz sentenced 12 activists to real terms for a nude protest in the Auschwitz concentration camp. According to Vesti, in March 2017, 12 young people from Belarus, Ukraine, Poland and Germany slaughtered a ram and took a picture naked near the former ...
An art student at an Israeli college stole several items from the Auschwitz museum in Poland, which she then used for her exhibition. This was reported by the Yediot Ahronot edition. Rotem Bides, 27, visited the museum at the site of the concentration camp six times and took out dishes from there ...