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Topic: Buchenwald

April 8, 2013
1:07 pm

A gravely ill Gilbert Michlin, the Auschwitz tattoo showing on his arm, is comforted by his wife, Mireille, August 2012. (photo credit: Toby Axelrod/JTA)

A Holocaust survivor stonewalled by Siemens

Gilbert Michlin died without getting answers from the German mega-company that enslaved and saved him at Auschwitz

By Toby Axelrod

April 7, 2013
4:17 am

Filmmaker Matthew Nash displays a World War II era photo of his grandfather US Army medic Donald Johnson, while standing in front of a projected image of a boy in a WWII Nazi concentration camp at Nash's Boston home. (photo credit: AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Grandfather’s hidden photos inspire Holocaust film

’16 Photographs at Ohrdruf’ depicts the Nazi extermination camps through the eyes of one American soldier

By Bridget Murphy

March 22, 2013
4:48 am

Rabbi Herschel Schachter conducts services for Holocaust survivors on the Jewish festival of Shavuot, in the Buchenwald concentration camp, May 16, 1945. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

First rabbi to enter liberated Buchenwald dies

Herschel Schachter, a former chairman of the Conference of Presidents, was 95

By Joe Winkler

March 12, 2013
3:12 pm

Members of the Weinrauch family, including future filmmaker Gita, center, remained in Vienna until after WWII was underway. (Courtesy of Gita Kaufman)

75 years after Anschluss, Nazi ‘Shadows’ haunt Austria

On the anniversary of the country’s union with Hitler, a former child refugee preps for the premiere of her long-gestating film

By Matt Lebovic

February 27, 2013
7:56 pm

Stephane Hessel, Jewish anti-capitalist activist, dies

Veteran of the French Resistance later became an ardent critic of Israel and defender of Hamas

February 24, 2013
1:12 am

The Oscar-nominated documentary "Liberators" falsely claimed a battalion of African-American soldiers had helped to free the Buchenwald concentration camp. (US Army, US Defense Visual Information Center, Image #HD-SN-99-02764, Wikimedia Commons)

Ceremony marks 20 years since Oscar-nominated sham

As Hollywood gathers for its glitziest moment, it’s worth recalling the Academy’s embrace of a Holocaust documentary exposed as a lie

By Mark Schulte

December 27, 2012
1:41 am

Anton Geiser, who has lived in the US for more than 50 years, didn't deny serving as a guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. (Photo credit: CC BY/ hsivonen via Flickr.com)

Former Nazi guard dies amid deportation battle

Anton Geiser served in SS as concentration camp guard before moving to US

December 7, 2012
4:56 am

Former Nazi guard appeals against deportation

Anton Geiser claims he was conscripted against his will

By Matthew Barakat

December 3, 2012
9:11 pm

Former Nazi camp guard fighting to stay in US

Anton Geiser, who lost his US citizenship in 2006, patrolled perimeter at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen

By Kevin Begos

October 25, 2012
12:13 pm

"Strictly Kosher" star Bernette Clarke, who joked affectionately on TV about her sons' circumcisions, has earned mostly warm reviews from other British Jews, who see her as a positive representative of the community. (Photo credit: Courtesy of ITV)

Unexpected TV stardom has British Jews cringing, kvelling and just plain confused

Suddenly everywhere on the small screen, UK Jewry debates its portrayal in popular culture — and finds it hard to stop watching

By Miriam Shaviv

September 28, 2012
9:43 pm

A large German Third Reich paperweight (photo credit: Courtesy, JP Humbert)

UK Holocaust charity rejects donation offer from auction house that sold off Nazi memorabilia

After Yom Kippur auction, Britain’s Holocaust Educational Trust says it won’t take money ‘from sale of items associated with Nazi regime’

By Raine Marcus

September 24, 2012
5:02 pm

Hitler Youth buckle for girls (photo credit: Courtesy, JP Humbert)

A swastika buckle, Hitler youth armbands and other Nazi memorabilia go on auction in the UK — on Yom Kippur

‘In no way do we wish to glorify the Nazi regime,’ says auctioneer. ‘I turned away a cosh used at Bergen Belsen and a book entitled Covenant with Death with horrific photos’

By Raine Marcus

September 17, 2012
12:59 am

The author's father, Private Alexander Breuer (left), holding a Nazi flag he captured with his comrades in a small German town (photo credit: courtesy Heddy Abramowitz)

Rosh Hashanah in purgatory

My father, Alexander Breuer, fled the Nazis in 1938, only to return several years later with the US Army. He was among the first Americans to enter Buchenwald and witness, firsthand, the decimation of European Jewry. And on the scorched earth of occupied Germany, in 1945, he celebrated the High Holidays

By Heddy Abramowitz

August 22, 2012
4:57 pm

Hungary condemns anti-Semitic calls during match with Israel

Prosecution not likely against fans who chanted ‘dirty Jews’ during a friendly game

August 11, 2012
6:40 pm

A portrait of Antonin Kalina (photo credit: © Gay Block)

The man who saved 900 Jewish boys INSIDE a death camp

Antonin Kalina was a communist imprisoned by the Nazis in Buchenwald. There, he kept the youngsters of his Block 66 alive. He never discussed this after the war, and died 20 years ago. Only now has his heroism been recognized

By Brad Rothschild

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