geographical name Oś·wię·cimˌȯsh-ˈfyen-chēm variantsor GermanAuschwitz ˈau̇sh-ˌvits communein southern Poland west of Krakówpopulation40,000 Note:Oświęcim was the site of the World War II Nazi concentration camp usually called Auschwitz. ...
I conclude that the convergence of these historical, architectural, and ideological aspects are evident in the buildings at Auschwitz I and Birkenau, and reveal how the practices of daily Nazi life and antisemitism work together to become a fantasy that sustains the consistency and meaning of ...
The German phrase meaning “work sets you free” was the slogan displayed at a number of Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Dachau. The photograph was taken by a registered nurse named Dennis Kosuth, who posted it on Twitter, where it quickly went viral. In a phone call with...
Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located; the name "Auschwitz" was made the official name again by the Nazis after they invaded Poland in September 1939. Birkenau, the German translation of Brzezinka ("birch...
I’ve never seen so many shoes all in one place, all with their owners long gone. Then you move onto the next sealed off glass room to find hair… peoples hair. Not wanting to waste anything the Nazi’s shaved the peoples heads and used the hair to make rugs among other things. Who...
He published an abridged version of this biography, titled Viktor Frankl: Das Ende eines Mythos, in German in 2005. NEW IN PAPERBACK!VIKTOR FRANKL’S SEARCH FOR MEANINGAn Emblematic 20th-Century LifeTimothy E. PytellVol. 23, Making Sense of History“As an introduction to Frankl’s ideas and...
The Arbeit Macht Frei sign at Dachau was stolen in November 2014 and was found in November 2016 in Norway. The Sign's Original Meaning The original meaning of the sign has long been a discussion of historians. The complete phrase as quoted by Hoss was "Jedem das Seine. Arbeit Macht Frei...
“The mystical” as an expression, in the sense I use it here, stems from Angela Ales Bello who proposed it as a translation of the German term “Mystik.” The mystical is not to be confused with mysticism, because the meaning of the latter is more ambiguous than that of the former. ...
In a way,Life for Lifewas made in part in response to such charges. Zanussi has written that he was never personally drawn to Kolbe, and wouldn’t have been inclined to make a film about him—until the project was pitched to him by a German film company in the mid-1980s, at a ti...
It is of its very meaning that precisely the innocent and the just suffer the worst. In deference to the idea of witness, whole communities in the Middle Ages met their death by sword and fire with the Sh'maJisrael, the avowal of God's Oneness, on their lips. The Hebrew name for ...