There was no fighting against the Germans, no camp guards. The whole area was overrun by people from the camp dressed in the most pitiful rags, and most of them were in a bad state of starvation.” ~~~ Someone messed up, there is no yarn spun yet again of the gas chambers or the...
Ten minutes later six guards appeared on the high platform next to the locomotive, carrying rifles. The head guard spoke up: “Whoever makes another sound will be shot!” As a result of these frightening words, you could’ve heard a pin drop among the three thousand well-wishers. Rav Lap...
“At the end of the war, there were still thirteen concentration camps. All the other points which are marked here on the map means so-called labour camps attached to the armament factories situated there . . . “If any ill-treatment of detainees by guards occurred – I myself have neve...
2 former Nazi camp guards charged with hundreds of Holocaust killings In 2015, the "performance" courted controversy when it became a part of an exhibition reflecting on the impact the concentration camps left on Polish, Jewish and German societies. The exhibition was held at the Museum of Con...
Arm the nation? (Five = Arm with weapons, see above) Possibly appoint armed guards over the country? Who knows exactly what Joseph is saying here, but one thing is certain. Once Joseph was put in charge by Pharaoh to save the country with centralized power, (with the word “fifth”) ...
That same grandmother has been assaulted, on camera, on at least two other occasions. One of those times, security guards stood and watched as she was assaulted and the other time she was arrested for assault, but not charged, as someone found the (anti-Israel) video of her apparently pus...
thanks to her skills as a graphic artist. Her assignments took her to places beyond the women’s barracks, where she met Wisnia, eight years her junior. Soon the two were arranging trysts in a loft where prisoners’ uniforms were stored. Fellow prisoners kept a helpful watch for guards....
In 1944, Czech Jews spontaneously sang HaTikvah at the entry to the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chamber and, as reported by a member of the Sonderkommando, were beaten by SS guards. In a BBC recording (April 20, 1945) Jewish survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camps in Germany sang HaTi...
At times, they would wait for the streetcar to stop in front of the school, blocking the sight of the Nazi guards at the theatre across the street, and cycle away with a child in the bag or basket. Or they might get on the car itself with a child. The resistance ...
‘Kapo’ was the name given to death camp prisoners, usually Jewish, who were enlisted by SS guards to help supervise the forced labour of other prisoners, for which they received extra provisions. The role-holders were often brutal.