Leon Weintraub fascinates his listeners in the Audimax on the campus of the Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences. It’s not just students, but also many “older semesters” who follow the lecture of the 97-year-old doctor spellbound and in silence. Weintraub, who was awarded the Paracelsus Medal a few days ago at the German Doctors’ Day … Read more
When Alena Mornštajnová writes a new book, it makes no sense to ask what leads the sales chart. A three-hundred-page novel called The Forest in the House topped the charts just last week, just after its release. It is a joyless narrative, a walk through the valley of shadows, from where the footpath does not … Read more
Fried has traveled to Swedish schools for over 30 years to talk about his experiences. She has been deeply involved in issues of democracy and awareness of racism. As a child, Fried was deported to Auschwitz with his parents. They were gassed to death, while she and her sister survived. In 1945 they both came … Read more
The Hague: Holocaust survivor Hanna Gösler (93), who spent time in a Nazi prison during World War II, has died. He was a close friend of Anne Frank, who wrote diaries describing the suffering of the Jewish people during Hitler’s regime. The two were together in the Nazi prison in Bergen-Belsen. Gosler and his sister … Read more
Jakarta – Chancellor German Olaf Scholz furious at the president’s statement Palestine Mahmud Abbas about the Holocaust. Also, this was communicated by Abbas all through a check out to Berlin, Germany. Described by the news agency AFPWednesday (17/8/2022), in a joint push meeting with Scholz on Tuesday (16/8) community time, Abbas (87) was questioned if … Read more
According to the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial site, about 100,000 prisoners were brought to Buchenwald concentration camp and its satellite camp via this stretch of track. In addition, extermination transports with children and sick prisoners to Auschwitz started at Buchenwald station. – The crime caused outrage across the country. For him, the attack on the … Read more
NEW YORK – A Brooklyn man has been sentenced for hate crimes after committing a brutal attack in 2018 on a Jewish man who was walking home from his synagogue. Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Donald Leo sentenced 44-year-old James Vincent to 11 years in prison just over a month after a jury found Vincent guilty … Read more
Talking and writing about the Holocaust, the trauma caused by Soa, is not easy. And the processing of intergenerational trauma is especially important, but it requires the cooperation of the surviving survivors, their descendants and the world, and it does not go without it. The story of Lily Ebert is therefore important. The now 97-year-old … Read more
Exactly 80 years ago, on October 16, 1941, the first train transport with Czech Jews to the ghetto in Lodz, Poland, left the Prague-Bubny railway station. He started the Nazi liquidation of approximately 80,000 Czech Jews who perished in occupied Poland, the Baltics and Belarus. The transports did not arouse greater interest of the Czech … Read more
New York – Sheindi’s fate is recorded on 54 yellowed diary pages. The impressive BILD documentation “Sheindi’s Diary – Notes of a Holocaust Survivor” was created from these unique notes by the Jew Sheindi Miller-Ehrenwald (91). The 36-minute film about the fate of the native Hungarian has now been recognized at the New York Festivals … Read more