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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 559

Sachsenhausen

Former Nazi concentration camp guard Josef Schuetz hides his face with a folder as he arrives on June 28, 2022 at a gym used as a makeshift courtroom in Brandenburg an der Havel, eastern Germany, where the verdict was delivered.(Adam BERRY / AFP)
April 27, 2023, 3:58 am
102-year-old convicted former Nazi camp guard dies while awaiting appeal
Josef Schuetz denied working at Sachsenhausen but was found by a German court to have served there as a member of the SS
By Agencies
Defendant Josef S (L) sits next to his lawyer Stefan Waterkamp and hides his face behind a folder as he waits for the start of his trial in Brandenburg an der Havel, northeastern Germany, on October 7, 2021 (Tobias Schwarz / AFP)
October 8, 2021, 2:08 pm
Ex-Nazi camp guard tells German court he is innocent, insists he ‘knows nothing’
Josef Schuetz, 100, says he did ‘absolutely nothing’ when accused of ‘knowingly and willingly’ assisting in the murder of 3,518 prisoners at Sachsenhausen camp
By AFP
The accused Josef S. covers his face as he sits at the court room in Brandenburg, Germany, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
October 7, 2021, 4:44 pm
Ex-Nazi camp guard, 100, refuses to discuss atrocities at trial in Germany
Josef Schuetz, the oldest person to stand trial for Nazi-era crimes, is accused of ‘knowingly and willingly’ assisting in murder of 3,518 prisoners at Sachsenhausen
By David Courbet
Inmates of the German concentration camp in Sachsenhausen, near Berlin, stand in line during an attendance check, December 19, 1938. German car parts maker Continental says it used slave labor from the camp during World War II. (AP Photo)
August 3, 2021, 3:12 am
100-year-old alleged former Nazi guard to stand trial in Germany
Suspect is charged with 3,518 counts of accessory to murder, stands accused of working for SS at the Sachsenhausen camp in 1942-1945
By Kirsten Grieshaber
Inmates of the German concentration camp in Sachsenhausen, near Berlin, stand in line during an attendance check, December 19, 1938. German car parts maker Continental says it used slave labor from the camp during World War II. (AP Photo)
August 28, 2020, 5:03 am
Germany’s Continental says it used slave labor to supply Nazis, test shoe soles
Car parts manufacturer says it forced concentration camp prisoners to march up to 2,200 kilometers to try out rubber footwear for German army during World War II
By Ed FRANKL
German police seen in Potsdam's central train station, on June 26, 2020. (Julian Stähle/picture alliance via Getty Images via JTA)
June 28, 2020, 11:50 am
US looks to Germany, where police cadets learn mandatory Holocaust history
New York Times report on police brutality highlights role learning about World War II plays in training, including visit by all Berlin trainees to Sachsenhausen concentration camp
By Gabe Friedman
Visitors walk past the gate, inscribed with the words: 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work makes you free) of the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp, now a memorial, in Oranienburg, Germany, February 7, 2020. (John MACDOUGALL/AFP)
April 19, 2020, 11:34 pm
Germany marks Holocaust anniversary in shadow of virus
Trio of former Nazi concentration camps mark 75 years since their liberation, in dramatically scaled back ceremonies
By AFP
Visitors are seen through an iron gate carrying the German phrase "Arbeit Macht Frei" (work sets you free) at the former concentration camp in Oranienburg, eastern Germany on August 7, 2019. (Odd Andersen/AFP)
August 26, 2019, 9:29 am
Far-right surge in Germany rattles guardians of Nazi-era remembrance
Guide at former concentration camp warns AfD politicians are ‘playing with fire’ by challenging country’s culture of reckoning with its past
By Deborah Cole
People enter the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp through the gate with the inscription 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free) for commemorations for the 72nd anniversary of the liberation of the camp in Oranienburg, about 35 kilometer north of Berlin, April 23, 2017. (AP/Markus Schreiber)
August 13, 2019, 2:19 pm
Man who denied Holocaust at German concentration camp to face charges
Suspect, reportedly a supporter of the far-right AfD party, one of several to make remarks denying existence of gas chambers at Sachsenhausen
By Sam Sokol
This photo from October 19, 2012 shows the gate of the former Nazi German death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
July 25, 2018, 10:23 am
Herman Shine, one of the last survivors to have escaped Auschwitz, dies at 96
With the help of a Polish partisan, Shine and a friend managed to break out of Auschwitz and hide until the end of the war
By JTA
People stand behind the gate with the inscription 'Arbeit macht frei' (work sets you free) at the Sachsenhausen Nazi death camp in Oranienburg, about 35 kilometers north of Berlin, April 23, 2017. Commemorations will be held on Sunday on the occasion of the 72th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. (AP/Markus Schreiber)
April 23, 2017, 8:06 pm
Ceremonies mark liberation of 2 Nazi camps 72 years ago
‘By remembering, we want to give space in our lives for the dead and the survivors,’ says Germany’s culture minister
By AP
A scene from “Austerlitz,” a documentary that chronicles the tourist experience at two former concentration camps. (Courtesy of Austerlitz/Loznitsa)
February 17, 2017, 7:59 pm
‘Holocaust tourism’ laid bare in eye-opening documentary
Showing in New York on Sunday, Austerlitz, by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, captures thousands of visitors sauntering around Dachau and Sachsenhausen. Most seem as if they are walking in a mall, or perhaps an art museum
By Gabe Friedman
Holocaust survivor Adolf Burger, who was forced to forge British banknotes for the Nazis. (Wikimedia Commons/Thierry Caro/CC BY-SA 3.0)
December 8, 2016, 4:35 pm
Last of Hitler’s Jewish ‘counterfeiters‘ dies
Adolf Burger, 99, whose memoirs inspired award-winning film, was forced to forge banknotes during World War II
By JTA
Illustrative: Heinrich Himmler in 1939. (AFP)
August 5, 2016, 11:05 am
Himmler diaries reveal chilling details of Nazi wartime life
Journals illustrate how the SS chief kept tabs on even the banal minutiae of his daily routine, even as he oversaw the systematic slaughter of European Jewry
By AFP
The opening ceremony of the European Maccabi Games in Berlin, a first since World War II, at the Waldbüche amphitheater, constructed for the 1936 Olympic Games and originally named for Adolf Hitler's mentor Dietrich Eckart, July 29, 2015. (Ilan Ben Zion)
July 29, 2015, 1:38 am
‘Jewish Olympics’ kick off at the Berlin amphitheater Hitler built
Under watchful police guard, thousands of Jewish athletes from around the globe launch first European Maccabi Games in Berlin since World War II
By Ilan Ben Zion
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