Memory albums over Nazi concentrations camp

HOLLOCAUST OSWIECIM 1940-1945
Memory albums over Nazi concentrations camp.
256 documentary photographs from Auschwitz - Birkenau

Monument to Victims of the Nazi terror on the site of the form extermination camp unveiled the 16th April 1967
The prisoners died as the result of:
long roll-calls
punitive drills
executions
starvetion
punishments
unhygienic living conditions
illnesses
criminal medical experiments
monstrous suffering and torture
Hundred of thousands of prisoners considered by SS to be unfit works were send immediately to the gas cambers

Europa mindes offren för kristallnatten 1938
[10/11/08] Offren för Kristallnatten hedrades runt om i Europa på 70-årsdagen efter det att nazisternas judeförföljelse kulminerade före Förintelsen. Natten mellan den 9 och 10 november 1938 lät nazisterna i en riksomfattande pogrom bränna ner 267 synagogor. Över 7 500 judiskt ägda affärer vandaliserades och SA-män mördade omkring 90 judar, i det som blev en startpunkt för Förintelsen. Minnesstunder hölls på flera ställen i Europa och i Israel. ''Det är vårt ansvar att hålla minnena vid liv, sade Charlotte Knobloch, Judiska centralrådets ordföran till de 1.200 personerna i församlingen i Tysklands största synagoga på Rykestrasse i Berlin. Hon bevittnade som sexåring Kristallnatten i München.

Detaljerad lista sammanställt över Hitlers judiska offer
[18/09/08] Forskare i Tyskland har nu för första gången sammanställt en detaljerad lista över omkring 600 000 judar som förföljdes av Hitlertidens nazister. Före 1933 bodde mellan 500000 och 550.000 judar i Tyskland. Vid krigsslutet 1945 återstod bara några tusen. Tanken är att listan ska underlätta fortsatta efterforskningar för både historiker och privatpersoner och kopior ska sändas ut till museer och institutioner.

Svenska lärare har dåliga kunskaper om Förintelsen
[20/08/08] Svenska lärare har dåliga kunskaper om Förintelsen. Sju av tio lärare hade minst åtta fel av elva frågor, när myndigheten Forum för levande historia gjorde en undersökning. Av över 5.000 lärare var det bara två som svarade rätt på alla frågor. Många av lärarna trodde att Gulag var ett utrotningsläger. Knappt var 20:e lärare kände till att mellan 81 och 100 procent av de judiska barnen i Europa dödades i Förintelsen. Undersökningen visar också att nästan hälften av lärarna inte har fått någon undervisning om Förintelsen.

Nazi hunters search Chile, Argentina for 'Dr Death'
July, 9, 2008 — Nazi hunters from the Simon Wiesenthal Center arrived here Monday to search for notorious German war criminal Aribert Heim, 94, known as. "Dr Death," believed to be hiding in Chile or Argentina, a center official told AFP. The delegation is headed by the center's Israel office chief and top Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff, and its ongoing "Operation Last Chance" will take them to Puerto Montt, in southern Chile, and Bariloche, in southeastern Argentina, Sergio Widder said. Puerto Montt is home to Heim's daughter Waltraud and could be where he is currently staying, the Wiesenthal center's representative in Latin America said. The second-most wanted Nazi criminal on the center's list, Heim is wanted for the murder of hundreds of inmates at the infamous Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria during World War II. Heim was arrested by US troops in 1945 but was released two and a half years later in what the Wiesenthal Center calls suspicious circumstances. He later practiced as a gynecologist in Germany and fled in 1962 when authorities were set to arrest him. Germany, Austria and the center have put up a reward totaling 310,000 euros (459,000 dollars) for information leading to Heim's arrest and prosecution.

German president opens synagogue
November 11, 2006 — President Horst Koehler said on Thursday anti-Semitism was still alive in Germany as he attended the consecration of a new synagogue in Munich, nearly 70 years after a notorious Nazi pogrom against the Jews. "Still today our dream of a normal Jewish life in Germany clashes with the reality that there is open and latent anti-Semitism and the number of violent acts motivated by right-wing extremism is rising," Koehler said in a speech prepared for the occasion. "It is the duty of all of us to get involved and act to prevent people being abused, injured or even murdered due to their religion, origin or appearance," he added. About 800 guests attended the ceremony in the Bavarian capital, where Adolf Hitler's Nazi movement put down its roots in the 1920s. The site of Munich's new synagogue is a few minutes walk from the building where Nazi propaganda chief Josef Goebbels delivered a speech that paved the way for the November 9-10, 1938 pogrom known as Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass. Hundreds of synagogues were destroyed across Germany and in parts of Austria, Jewish homes and stores were ransacked and Jews were attacked and beaten to death. Munich's old main synagogue in the Herzog Max Strasse had been demolished in June 1938 and two other houses of worship were destroyed by the Nazis on Kristallnacht.

Shameful secret of the Nazi camp guard who married a Jew
September 21, 2006 — 84-year-old widow sent back to Germany after dark past is uncovered. For more than 60 years Elfriede Lina Rinkel hid a terrible secret. To her family, friends and Jewish husband Fred, Mrs Rinkel was one of many Germans who had fled to the US after the second world war seeking a better life. But yesterday the 84-year-old's extraordinary past caught up with her. American officials said Mrs Rinkel had been deported from her San Francisco home to Germany after US investigators discovered she had worked as a guard in a Nazi concentration camp. Mrs Rinkel's shocked relatives, who did not want to be identified, said yesterday they had had no idea about her wartime activities. She had concealed her past for half a century not only from them but also from her husband - a German Jew who fled the Holocaust. He died two years ago and almost certainly knew nothing of the truth, they said. According to the US justice ministry, Mrs Rinkel worked at Ravensbrück concentration camp, north of Berlin, from June 1944 to April 1945. She used an SS-trained dog. Documents released by the ministry's office of special investigations, set up to track down fugitive Nazis, include her service card, taken from an SS centre, and bank records.
The camp, completed in 1939 by the SS leader, Heinrich Himmler, was built almost exclusively for female prisoners. Within a few years it had evolved into a brutal slave labour camp where "undesirable" women - first German opponents of the Nazi regime and prostitutes and criminals, later Jews and Gypsies - were held, experimented on and killed. More than 130,000 women passed through Ravensbrück, near the town of Fürstenberg. Most came from Poland or the occupied Soviet Union. Only 40,000 survived. The Red Army liberated the camp in April 1945, but arrived after Nazi troops took thousands of inmates on a forced march, where many died

Holocaust victims sueing SCNF
August 29, 2005 -- Further suits have been files against the French national railroad SCNF, Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Francais, from survivors of the Holocaust and their relatives. They are demanding restitution from the SCNF for its role in transporting Jews in cattle-cars to death camp during the Second World War.
The last date for filing suits is 1 September 2006, and 200 new filings have already been made. "More is expected", says a lawyer who is representing the plaintiffs. The SCNF has already appealed a June verdict in France, demanding the company and the French government to pay restitution equivalent to 554 000 Swedish crowns for having transported Jews to a gathering camp for further transportation to death camps such as Auschwitz and Buchenwald. More than 75 000 of the 330 000 Jews living in France in 1940 were transported to vaious concentration camps; of those, only 2 500 survived.

Holocaust Victims Honoured by Special Day
November 2, 2005 -- The date of January 27 is to become an annual commemorative day in honour of Holocaust victims, the UN General Assembly decided Tuesday. The joint proposal from Australia, Canada, Israel, Russia and the United States was supported in the UN by more than 90 countries. The decision also means that all 191 UN member states is to arrange for a special educational programme about the Holocaust.

Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal Dead
Tuesday 20/08/2005-- Simon Wiesenthal, who devoted most of his life hunting Nazi war criminals, died Tuesday 96 years old in his hometown Vienna. The Simon Wiesenthal Center in Vienna announced their founder's death today. Wiesenthal, who survived the Second World War's concentration camps, contributed to the capture of more than 1.100 war criminals. They were later held accountable for their crimes in court.

Adolf Hitler Nominated To The Nobel Peace Price
In the autumn of 1938, a Swedish member of Parliament nominated the German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler to the Nobel Peace Price, according to documents collected by the Nobel Museum in Stockholm. The nomination, which occurred after that Hitler has shown tendencies to ethnic discrimination, was withdrawn just a few month later, in January 1939, by the same member of Parliament; probably, according to the Nobel Museum, after pressure from other Swedish Parliament colleagues.