Twenty-five years ago, as I left Auschwitz, I was certain I would never set foot in a concentration camp again. As the granddaughter of a survivor, I felt a duty to witness and to honour – but I knew ...
A ledger recording efforts by rabbis at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to record testimonies that would allow the remarriage of survivors who did not have proof of the death of their spouses was ...
Leonard Berney is sitting in his apartment when we speak, gazing out at the South Atlantic sea from his balcony. Docked at the Namibian coastal town of Lüderitz, he is soon to embark on a 300-mile ...
EXCLUSIVE: Academy Award winner Sam Mendes is to sit in the documentary director’s chair for the first time. Mendes is directing a BBC doc telling the story of two members of the British Army’s Film & ...
BERGEN-BELSEN, GERMANY — “It’s called rote grütze. I remember eating it all the time here as a young child,” said Aviva Tal as she tucked into the German fruit pudding as brightly red-colored as her ...
BERLIN — Holocaust survivors and officials gathered Sunday at the memorial site of the former concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in northern Germany in a solemn ceremony to commemorate the liberation of ...
Maria Osowiecki's search for the right questions to frame her students' study of the Holocaust was driven initially by the proximity of her school to the site of Bergen-Belsen, and the particular ...
My visit earlier this month to the site of the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, in northern Germany, was nothing less than surreal. At this very place during the final months of World War II, ...
Menachem Rosensaft of the World Jewish Congress doesn’t remember the camp, but says it’s where his parents “returned to being human beings” after the war. (JTA) – One might not associate the term ...
On Sunday, April 17, hundreds of Holocaust survivors from around the world, along with their children and grandchildren, gathered on the site of the German concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen to ...
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II visited a former Nazi concentration camp for the first time Friday, laying a wreath on the grounds of Bergen-Belsen where Anne Frank died shortly before liberation by ...