2+ week, 4+ day ago   (174+ words) • On Simchat Torah 1944, 800 boys were selected for death; 51 walked out alive after being chosen (or slipping in) to unload potatoes. • The order appears to have come from Johann Schwarzhuber rather than Josef Mengele, though the precise motive remains unclear. • Schiff…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1209+ words) Jürgen Stroop, the Nazi commander who led the killing of more than 50,000 Jews, was sitting in a cell in Warsaw awaiting his own execution. Before he met the gallows, Stroop described in unrepentant detail his ascent as a Nazi, his…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (674+ words) Erica Frydenberg was not yet one year old when her uncle helped save her from the Holocaust in Budapest. What Nandor Eichel did next, moving through a city gripped by Nazi terror to rescue other Jews, remained largely unspoken for…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (445+ words) Ynetnews The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust will open a landmark exhibition in September marking the 80th anniversary of the recovery of the Oyneg Shabes Archive, the clandestine collection of documents created by Jews in…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (512+ words) The Great Synagogue of Vilna stood for three centuries before it was ransacked by the Nazis and destroyed under Soviet rule The bimah of what was once one of Europe’s largest synagogues has been uncovered by archaeologists in Vilnius, Lithuania,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (252+ words) Excavations at the Great Synagogue associated with the Vilna Gaon, which was destroyed by the Nazi regime and later by the Soviet authorities some 70 years ago, have revealed sections of the prayer hall and the women’s gallery, colourful floors, seating…...