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 ...
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 & ...
When Israeli President Isaac Herzog and German President Franz-Walter Steinmeier walked through the memorial site of the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen in northwest Germany on Sept. 6, 2022, ...
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, ...
A new exhibition at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London chronicles the German camp complex’s history, from its origins housing prisoners of war to its afterlife holding displaced persons Meilan ...
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 ...
(JTA) – One might not associate the term “concentration camp” with life. But that is exactly how Menachem Rosensaft views Bergen Belsen. For it was here, in the displaced persons camp set up after ...
The events that occurred 80 years ago saw millions of people push themselves out of their comfort zones in a bid to support the war effort. Doris Zinkeisen, a mother of three, was one of them. Doris, ...
Compared to the appalling number of men, women and children killed at the Nazi extermination camps—places like Sobibor, Chelmno, Treblinka and others where, cumulatively, millions perished—the death ...
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 ...
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 ...