Kindertransport: Saving children from the Holocaust, 1938-1939
This post was originally published on this siteImagine getting on a train and leaving your parents and your family behind. Imagine arriving in a new […]
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Auschwitz Guards: The faces that oversaw a genocide, 1940-1945
This post was originally published on this siteThese mugshots of Auschwitz guards were published by Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance and you can see the […]
The hunt for Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, 1961
This post was originally published on this siteAdolf Eichmann inspired Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase ‘the banality of evil’. A career civil servant in Nazi Germany, […]
Anne Frank: The face of an icon, 1929-1945
This post was originally published on this siteAnnelies “Anne” Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – early March 1945) was just an ordinary Dutch girl from […]
Helene Mayer, the Jewish fencer who fought for Hitler, 1927-1936
This post was originally published on this siteHelene Mayer, remains one of the Olympics’ great mysteries. She was, by definition of German law at the […]
Inside the Nazi-controlled ghetto of Lodz, 1940-1944
This post was originally published on this siteThe Lodz ghetto became the second largest ghetto created by the Nazis after their invasion of Poland – […]
The Holocaust in a few pictures, 1939-1945
This post was originally published on this siteIt began with a simple boycott of Jewish shops and ended in the gas chambers at Auschwitz as […]