Tag: Holocaust
Berlin announces new Holocaust compensation deal
Seventy years after the first agreement between West Germany and Israel on the compensation of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews of Europe, new support from Berlin was…
C215 facing the ghosts of the Rafle du Vel d’Hiv’
La Rafle du Vel d’Hiv’ is one of the darkest pages in the history of the collaboration. So as not to forget, the Shoah Memorial in Paris asked the famous…
Rachel Jedinak, tireless witness to the Holocaust
Rachel Jedinak was eight years old on July 16, 1942, when the French police arrested her, her older sister and their mother during the great Vel d’Hiv roundup. For twenty-six…
Facial recognition at the service of families of Holocaust victims
An American engineer has voluntarily developed a powerful facial recognition system to identify anonymous victims of the death camps during the Second World War. Free, it is accessible to the…
The camp guard claims his innocence in the Holocaust
A 101-year-old man who worked as a guard at a concentration camp in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust claims his innocence in court. Josef Schütz is on trial accused of…
The camp guard claims his innocence in the Holocaust
Josef Schütz is on trial accused of taking part in the murders of 3,518 people at the Sachsenhausen camp, located north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945. He did so…
Elie Buzyn, one of the last great French witnesses to Auschwitz, has died
Elie Buzyn, father of former French Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn, died Monday May 23 at the age of 93. During his life, he worked to transmit the memory of…
Holocaust exhibition comes to Malmö – “A tribute to the victims”
When Tommy Ringart stops in one of the showrooms at Malmö Fair, he is taken. On the walls are pictures of prisoners who have just arrived at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination…
“A tribute to the victims of the Holocaust”
Facts: “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not Far Away ” The exhibition “Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away ”at Malmö Fair is open to the public 26 May – 30…