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2 days ago · The German occupiers had exposed many members of the resistance groups in Kristiansand and Stavanger the previous autumn. Many of those arrested were sent to prison camps in Norway or concentration camps in Germany. However, those identified by the Nazis as leaders were sentenced to death or executed without trial.
Aug 21, 2024 · For Auschwitz, via its destructive dynamism, became both a microcosm of the Nazi State and the logical consequence of Hitler's warped worldview. Combining rare archive footage, CGI illustrations of the camp never before seen on television and dramatic reconstructions of the key decision-making moments, the story of Auschwitz and the horrific ideology behind it unfolds."
3 days ago · Heydrich, September 1939 [c] By order of the Reichsführer-SS, residency without possession of an identification card is punishable by death. Heydrich, November 1939 On 29 November 1939, Heydrich issued a cable about the "Evacuation of New Eastern Provinces", detailing the deportation of people by railway to concentration camps, and giving guidance surrounding the December 1939 census, which ...
Aug 12, 2024 · In France, between 3,000 and 6,000 Roma were deported to German concentration camps as Dachau, Ravensbrück, Buchenwald, and other camps. [ 23 ] [ page needed ] Further east, in the Balkan states and the Soviet Union, the Einsatzgruppen , mobile killing squads, travelled from village to village massacring the inhabitants where they lived and typically leaving few to no records of the number of ...
5 days ago · Rudolf Vrba (born Walter Rosenberg; 11 September 1924 – 27 March 2006) was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He escaped from the camp in April 1944, at the height of the Holocaust, and co-wrote the Vrba-Wetzler report, a detailed report about the ...
4 days ago · Eighty years ago, on 2-3 August 1944, more than 3,000 Roma were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp. For Romani human rights defenders and Romani survivors, remembering the dark past is also an opportunity to advance public memory of Roma, strengthen their human rights, and challenge present-day racism.
5 days ago · The memoirs of Holocaust victims, both those who perished and those who survived, offer powerful insights into their experiences. Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl (originally in Dutch, 1947)—her diary survived while she did not— as well as Elie Wiesel’s Night (originally in Yiddish, 1956), and works by Primo Levi are some of the most memorable in the field of literature.