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Meisel, Holocaust survivor, lectures at SHU

Judith Meisel, Holocaust survivor, lectured at Seton Hill University (SHU) on October 26, 2004.

Diary provides new glimpse into horrors of Holocaust

• Entries from Dutch prison camp depict loneliness, sorrow and finally desperation

Holocaust survivor tells students at Monache her tales of terror

The German soldiers admired her hair as she walked around the concentration camp.

Concentration camp

Germany

Concentration camps rose to notoriety during their use in World War II by Germany. The Nazi regime nominally maintained both kinds of concentration camps, work camps and extermination camps. The distinction between the two, in practice, was very small. Prisoners in Nazi work camps could expect to be worked to death in short order, while prisoners in extermination camps usually died sooner in gas chambers or in other ways. Guards were known to engage in target practice, using their prisoners as targets.

Chicago Nursing Homes Grouping Residents

CHICAGO — Mid America Convalescent Center is one of a growing number of Chicago-area nursing homes that assemble residents by ethnicity. Asians live on one floor, Hispanics are on another.

BERLIN (AP) Nazi officials planned to move the Auschwitz gas chambers to a concentration camp in Austria as the Germans retreated westward from the Soviet army near the end of World War II, a magazine reported Sunday.

Scholar: Holocaust crimes in countryside, small towns, too

Contrary to collective contemporary memory, the genocide of the Holocaust was perpetrated as much in small towns and the countryside as in the sprawling, mechanized death camps of the Third Reich, a Holocaust scholar said last night at the Kimmel Center.