Admissions against interest

Unsung Holocaust hero celebrates 100th

ATLANTA (AP) — The last living member of an underground network that likely helped save the lives of thousands during the Holocaust is celebrating his 100th birthday today.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug. 20 (UPI) — A Swedish government agency says a majority of teachers in the country have an inadequate knowledge of the World War II Holocaust.
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After all these years, the barracks are still there.

PUPILS at a Bexley school have been learning first hand about the horrors of the Holocaust from one of its survivors.
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BERLIN (AFP) — As the last generation of Germany’s Holocaust survivors enters the twilight years, many are losing the strength to suppress horrific memories and caregivers find they are often ill-equipped to help.
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As a young girl, Ela Stein Weissberger said she cherished the moments when she played a cat in a production with other children her age.
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Scholars make finds in Nazi archive

BAD AROLSEN, Germany — From prison brothels to slave labor camps, 15 scholars concluded a two-week probe Thursday of an untapped repository of millions of Nazi records, and hailed it as a rich vein of raw material

“The Counterfeiters” purports to tell the story of how Jews at Sachsenhausen concentration camp produced near-perfect forgeries of the British pound for the Nazis. But be forewarned: Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitsky’s 2008 Academy Award winner for best foreign film lacks a great deal of the drama inherent in the real-life story. That’s the word from veteran American journalist Lawrence Malkin, whose book “Krueger’s Men” (Back Bay Books) is widely regarded as the definitive nonfiction work on the saga. Originally published by Little, Brown and Company in 2006, the book was recently released in paperback, bearing a small sticker referring to “the true story that inspired the Oscar-winning movie.”

Md. Holocaust Survivor Makes a Point of Speaking Out

Klaus Zwilsky, 74, of Calvert County MD, is a Holocaust survivor. However, his story is relatively unique among Jews who emerged from the horrors of Nazi Germany. He was not sent to a concentration camp, nor did he spend World War II hiding in the home of a sympathtic non-Jew. Instead, Zwilsky survived in a Jewish hospital in Berlin, with the knowledge, and consent, of the Nazi government.