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Uncovering a Holocaust survival story
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (84+ words) An oral history project organized by former schoolteacher Matthew Rozell to interview World War II veterans uncovered little-known stories from the conflict, including the liberation by American troops of 2,500 Holocaust survivors from a so-called "death train" in April 1945. Correspondent Seth…...
Homeowner stumbles upon SECRET World War II documents in his garage
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (57+ words) Homeowner stumbles upon files marked 'SECRET' while cleaning out his garage... and now they can be revealed for the first time Daily Mail - READ: Karmelo Anthony's sick fantasies about girlfriend revealed in trove of texts you weren't meant to see…...
Author tells of mother's life in Nazi Germany
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (526+ words) Tammy Borden hold her book Waltraud, which tells the tale of her mother growing up in Nazi Germany. Borden was a featured speaker during a Society for Learning Unlimited program at the Beloit Public Library on Wednesday. BELOIT – Wisconsin author…...
Screening of 'Remember Warsaw' at Southbury Public Library September 27
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (177+ words) Matthew Mehaffey of the University of Minnesota conducted the performance by the Minnesota Oratorio Society in 2011, and this is the 80-minute version that will be screened. The Remember Warsaw Corporation will host a screening of the oratorio Remember Warsaw at…...
Auschwitz Survivor, 83, on AfD's Triumph:
5+ day, 23+ min ago (376+ words) The Alternative for Germany party won nearly 44% of the vote in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, a result that has horrified 83-year-old Eva Umlauf — a survivor of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz who now heads the International Auschwitz Committee. In…...
Tours of traveling Anne Frank exhibit led by Paw Paw Middle School students
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (227+ words) Southerly to westerly winds upwards of 25 mph create 4-foot waves and dangerous rip currents through this evening. Stay off all piers. PAW PAW, Mich. — A group of middle school students will act as peer guides for a touring Anne Frank…...
Oskar Jakob survived five Nazi camps. Then he spent 81 years living.
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (856+ words) Jewish pop star Pink weighs in after Macklemore’s ‘Free Palestine’ speech at Ed Sheeran concert This isn’t a Jewish restaurant. So why is it making challah, knishes and matzo balls? She found a coral reef that shouldn’t exist. Now she’s…...
New film tells a little-known story of women slave labourers during the Holocaust
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (845+ words) Throughout her childhood Marisa Fox heard stories about her mother’s escapades as a spy and freedom fighter. Tamar Fromer Fox had told her daughter that in 1939 she managed to escape from Poland to Palestine, where she joined a Jewish paramilitary…...
In a forest where Jews fought the Nazis, a German military base and Lithuanian politics encroach on memory
5+ day, 6+ hour ago (1316+ words) Rūdninkai, LITHUANIA — Deep in the trees and swampy thickets of Lithuania’s Rūdninkai Forest, a series of makeshift forts is sinking into the earth. These represent the remains of underground bunkers where Jewish partisans resisted their annihilation in the Holocaust. Under…...
Island in Poland Hides Nearly 1.5 km of Tunnels Beneath the Forest, Where a Nazi-Built Fortress Became a Command Center During the Cold War, Featuring Barracks, a Medical Facility, Kitchen, Communication Rooms, and a Preserved Red Phone in the Old War Room
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (1171+ words) The Isle of Wolin, Poland, conceals a military underground complex that has traversed various periods of European history. Initially built by the Nazis as coastal defense structures, the facilities were later adapted by the Polish socialist government to function as…...