'Many are capable of this': how ordinary women became executioners in Nazi camps

“Physically healthy female employees aged 20 to 40 are required to work at a military facility. A good salary, free food, accommodation and clothing are guaranteed,” read an advertisement in one of the German newspapers in 1944, writes the BBC. 27…

Preparing for the escape: a cache of prisoners' things was found in the oven of Auschwitz

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...

Netflix will change the series about the Ukrainian guard of concentration camps due to Polish discontent

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...

'Sadist', 'executioner', 'Nazi criminal': a series about a Ukrainian who served in death camps appeared on Netflix

On November 4, a documentary series about a Ukrainian who was a guard in German death camps, Ivan Demjanjuk, will be released on the Netflix streaming platform. The title of the five-episode film is “The Devil Next Door.” The BBC publication collected information about Demjanjuk and described his story. “Sadist”, “executioner”, “Nazi...

'The Devil Next Door': Netflix will show a series about a Ukrainian who committed terrible crimes against Jews

The streaming platform Netflix will show the documentary series “The Devil Next Door.” This is the story of an ordinary American citizen, Ivan Demjanjuk, originally from Ukraine, who hid his dark past from everyone. BURO writes about this. For his loved ones and family, he was an ordinary retired auto mechanic,...

'Triumph over Evil': a Holocaust survivor celebrated the 104 anniversary in the circle of 400 descendants. A PHOTO

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...

American tourist arrested for stealing Auschwitz 'souvenir'

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 ...

“Auschwitz accountant” Oskar Groening dies in Germany

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 court sent to prison 96-year-old "accountant Auschwitz" involved in the murder of thousands of 300 people

The Higher Regional Court in the German city of Celle considered possible imprisonment for 96-year-old former SS non-commissioned officer Oskar Gröning, writes Snob, citing the newspaper Die Zeit. Despite Groening's age, experts decided that he could be jailed for 4 years.…

Congressman demands to send a 93-year-old guard from a Nazi concentration camp from the USA

Democratic Congressman Joseph Crowley has appealed to the US attorney general and federal immigration officials to deport New York-based Nazi criminal of Ukrainian origin Yakiv Paliy, according to the New York Daily News. Former guard of the Nazi concentration camp Treblinka Yakiv Paliy, the decision to deport which ...

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