Theresienstadt was a nazi holding pen in Czechoslovakia. It served as a transit camp for Czech Jews whom the Germans deported to killing centers, concentration camps, and forced-labor camps in German-occupied Poland, Belorussia, and the Baltic States. It was a ghetto-labor camp to which the SS deported and then incarcerated certain categories of German, Austrian, and Czech Jews, based on their...
Today In Jewish History: Eichmann captured in Argentina
Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1960, Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann was captured in Argentina. Eichmann was in charge of implementing the “final solution” to exterminate Jews in the concentration camps. In one seven-week period alone, Eichmann transported 400,000 Hungarian Jews to the gas chambers. Eichmann was captured through the efforts of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and the Israeli Mossad...
Hundreds march in Latvia to commemorate Waffen SS unit
It’s still my father’s Europe. Via IHT: About 3,000 Latvians marched through the capital Sunday under heavy police protection to honor countrymen who fought in a German combat unit during World War II. The procession, included a few surviving members of the WaffenSS unit known as the Latvian Legion, was met by dozens of jeering protesters as it arrived at the Freedom Monument, in...
European Jewish leader warns against neo-Nazi phenomenon in Europe
It is still our father’s Europe. From EJP: Speaking at a special commemoration organized Monday evening in the European Parliament ‘s Yehudi Menuhin Hall on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Kantor said: “There are more neo-Nazis than Jews today in Europe.” Kantor, who lost half of his family in the Shoah or Holocaust in Ukraine, deplored the...
Holocaust scholar: ‘Jew’ has become curse word among German youth
It will always remain my father’s Europe. And Ha’aretz, the leading left-wing rag out of Israel, will make sure it remains that way. From Holocaust scholar: ‘Jew’ has become curse word among German youth: German schools are failing in educating students about the Holocaust, a new study by a political education center has found, as German youth, who one historian said use...
Today in Jewish History – Shvat 3
Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1933, Adolph Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. The November 1932 elections saw the Nazis emerge as the largest party in the Reichstag. Leading German politicians and businessmen persuaded President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Hitler as chancellor, as a way to stabilize the government and economy. Hindenburg reluctantly agreed. Two months later, the Nazis...
Vast Nazi archive opened to public
Via ArcaMax: A vast archive of 47 million German documents on Nazi Holocaust victims has been opened to the public. Kept in Bad Arolsen, West Germany, miles of shelves contain detailed records of 17.5 million forced laborers, concentration camp victims and political prisoners. Until now the files were used to trace missing persons, reunite families and provide information for compensation claims...
Books: Zionist official was first to hear of Final Solution
Via JPost: A senior Zionist official stationed in Switzerland during World War II was likely the first person to receive information from a German source regarding the plan for the systematic extermination of Europe’s Jews, according to a new book published by Yad Vashem. Chaim Pazner, head of the Jewish Agency’s Palestine Office in Geneva, immediately forwarded the information to...
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