Admissions against interest

Glimpse into Holocaust shared through eyes of survivor

ASHBY — Fourth-graders at the Ashby Elementary School heard first-hand from a Holocaust survivor what it was like living and working in the German concentration camps.

Holocaust Survivor Kurzem Finds Cousin

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — After seeing his mother and siblings shot to death by Nazis, 5-year-old Ilya Solomonovich Galparin went into survival mode, concealing his Jewishness and assuming the role of fair-haired Aryan mascot for a Latvian Nazi military unit.

Pretoria — Advocate Francois Joubert SC and Alwyn Griebenow who are representing the 70 men being held in Harare’s maximum security Chikurubi Prison on charges of coup plotting have described the jail as a camp worse than Auschwitz.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It was 65 years ago when two teenage neighbors from the Polish town of Nowy Sacz parted ways to embark on their separate, lurching odysseys through the Holocaust.

Photo reunites cousins separated by Holocaust

A 67-year-old black and white photograph has brought healing and new family to a Durham man.

TWO sisters who each feared the other was killed during the Holocaust have been reunited — after more than 61 years.

Reunited after 61 years

• A match of Holocaust stories helps two sisters separated since 1944 find each other after going through the hardships of war to reach Israel

Who were the Holocaust victims?

• Database hopes to document lives of the dead

The lives of thousands of Holocaust victims are coming to light in a new database that allows anyone with an Internet connection to research the fate of family members and friends sent to Nazi death camps.

For Israel, the wounds of the Holocaust remain fresh

(01-25) 11:29 PST JERUSALEM (AP) — Though it ended six decades ago, the Holocaust remains a fresh trauma here, a tragedy that darkens Israeli society and forms an integral part of the national identity.

Our overuse of the term ‘holocaust’ belittles the true horror of Nazism

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Indeed, the farther into history the Second World War retreats, the more obsessed with Nazis the news seems to become. […]