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...
Today is the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. With deep gratitude to every soldier and officer who gave their life, health and peaceful sleep for the sake of a peaceful sky and the salvation of people, we decided on this day to remember those for whom this war became...
Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who wrote a diary that became a symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust, died in a concentration camp in 1945. Her half-sister Eva Schloss survived, but was able to talk about her experience only forty years later, according to Voice of America. Eva Schloss's childhood ...
Tamara Vershitskaya, founder and curator of the Museum of Jewish Resistance in Novogrudok, met in New York at the end of January 2020 with the American billionaire and matchmaker of US President Donald Trump, Charles Kushner. Writes about this TUT.BY. He said that he was going to come to Novogrudok (Belarus) again this summer to show one of his ...
The Israeli Holocaust Memorial Museum Yad Vashem in Jerusalem apologized for the fact that the materials presented at the World Forum dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz distorted historical facts about the role of the USSR in World War II. This confession is contained ...
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...
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the World Holocaust Forum in Israel put anti-Semitism and Russophobia on a par, writes the BBC. He stated this during the opening of the “Candle of Memory” monument to the heroes and defenders of the defense of Leningrad. “Here, as in Russia,...
Dozens of world leaders gathered in Jerusalem, Israel, on January 23 for the largest gathering in history to commemorate the victims of the Holocaust and combat modern anti-Semitism. The Voice of America writes about this. Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Crown Prince Charles,…
The creators of the Netflix series The Devil Next Door have agreed to add annotations to a map of Europe that outraged the Polish prime minister. The Devil Next Door is set during World War II. The plot tells about the hunt for Ivan Demjanjuk, a native of the Ukrainian SSR, caught...
A 92-year-old Greek woman could not hold back her tears when she met the group of brothers and sisters she saved during the Holocaust - the family brought with them dozens of descendants. After an emotional Sunday meeting in Jerusalem, where she was introduced to the younger generation...