January 27 was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Ukrainian eyewitnesses shared their memories of those times. They told how the Nazis killed Jewish children, teachers, doctors, their neighbors before their eyes, and then buried these people in ravines and forests. About…
An employee of Watkins Elementary School forced third graders in a library classroom to reproduce scenes from the Holocaust, advising them to dig mass graves for their classmates and simulate shooting at victims, TheWashingtonPost reported. The employee was sent on vacation on December 17. Her name was not disclosed. She…
In two days in September 1941, more than 30 thousand Jews were shot on the outskirts of Kiev. It was one of the largest mass destruction of civilians during the Second World War, recalls DW. In two days, September 29 and 30, 1941 ...
Today, more than 120 thousand Jews who survived the Holocaust live in the United States, writes Voice of America. Public transport and cars stopped; people froze in place and bowed their heads. The funeral siren sounds for two minutes. So on April 8, Israel honored the memory of six million...
On January 27, the world celebrates the International Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust - on this day in 1945, Soviet soldiers of the 1st Ukrainian Front liberated prisoners of the largest Nazi camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Auschwitz. More than 1 million people died in this camp alone. “The Holocaust that led ...
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…
He was born 112 years ago. An Abwehr spy, an SS man, a drinking buddy of Soviet soldiers, an unfaithful husband and the righteous man of the world - all this is one person, Oskar Schindler. His life story was told by the magazine “Takie Dela”. The world learned about this story by accident - due to the fact that...
80 years ago, when the Nazis occupied France, two Jewish girls from Alsace were under mortal threat. But they survived, like dozens of others, thanks to a brave nun from a monastery near Toulouse, writes BBC. Twelve-year-old Helene Bach played in the garden with the youngest ...
Israeli film director Boris Maftsir has completed work on a series of documentaries about the Holocaust in the Soviet Union. The cycle consists of 9 films. Writes about this "Voice of America". Eight of them with a total duration of 11 and a half hours document about one hundred actions ...
80 years ago, Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a middle-aged and not very high-ranking Portuguese diplomat, turned gray in a matter of days. He was faced with a choice: obey his superiors or conscience? Mendes lost his career and pension, but the descendants of the people he saved remember him ...