Holocaust: Was in Auschwitz geschah | DER SPIEGEL

Jan 27, 2022 | Am 27. Januar 1945 erreichten Soldaten der Roten Armee das Vernichtungslager. Nach und nach erschloss sich ihnen die Dimension des Grauens.
I'm posting this disturbing documentary about concentration- and extermination-camps today because anti-Semitism is increasing terribly around the world. People need to be reminded of the horrors inflicted on the Jews in Hitler's Third Reich in the 1930s and 1940s. We should never forget how the Jews suffered back then. Furthermore, we must do everything in our power to ensure that they never again have to suffer such humiliation, abuse and cruelty.

Ich veröffentliche heute diese verstörende Dokumentation über Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager, weil der Antisemitismus weltweit furchtbar zunimmt. Die Menschen müssen an die Schrecken erinnert werden, die den Juden in Hitlers Drittem Reich in den 1930er und 1940er Jahren zugefügt wurden. Wir sollten nie vergessen, wie die Juden damals gelitten haben. Darüber hinaus müssen wir alles in unserer Macht tun, um sicherzustellen, daß sie nie wieder solche Demütigungen, Misshandlungen und Grausamkeiten erleiden müssen.

Je publie aujourd'hui ce documentaire inquiétant sur les camps de concentration et d'extermination parce que l'antisémitisme augmente terriblement dans le monde. Il faut rappeler aux gens les horreurs infligées aux Juifs sous le Troisième Reich hitlérien dans les années 1930 et 1940. Nous ne devrions jamais oublier combien les Juifs ont souffert à cette époque. En outre, nous devons faire tout ce qui est en notre pouvoir pour garantir qu’ils n’aient plus jamais à subir de telles humiliations, abus et cruautés.

© Mark Alexander

Diese Dokumentation ist für Kinder auf keinen Fall geeignet. Empfindsame Leute sollten auch vorsichtig sein.

This documentary is definitely not suitable for children. Sensitive people should also be careful.

Cette documentation n'est certainement pas adaptée aux enfants. Les personnes sensibles doivent également être prudentes.

Diese Dokumentation ist altersbeschränkt und kann daher nicht auf externen Websites eingebettet werden. Es muss auf YouTube selbst angesehen werden. Klicken Sie bitte hier, um den Dokumentarfilm anzusehen. (It has English subtitles.)

Friendships That Saved Lives during the Holocaust

Jul 30, 2020 • When Pennsylvanian teen Jane Bomberger and American exchange student Robert Harlan learned about Nazi persecution of Jews, they wanted to take action. They were able to help their friends flee Nazi Germany and Austria. Assistance from abroad was vital because few people could obtain the necessary paperwork and permissions needed to emigrate from Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1930s. On the United Nations International Day of Friendship, join Museum experts to learn about individuals who helped their Jewish friends find refuge. Speaker Susan Goldstein Snyder, Curator, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Moderator Dr. Edna Friedberg, Historian, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Homosexuels et lesbiennes dans l’Europe nazie : les déportés oubliés

Insigne et matricule de Josef Kohout, déporté homosexuel autrichien. (Coll. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington DC))
L’OBS : Le Mémorial de la Shoah, à Paris, éclaire le sort des gays et lesbiennes, victimes de la répression nazie. Le musée retrace les multiples aspects de la persécution, en s’appuyant sur des parcours de vie saisissants, des documents et des témoignages inédits. Retour sur une page d’Histoire méconnue.

C’est une première en France. Après plusieurs mois de minutieuse récolte de documents et de témoignages inédits, le Mémorial de la Shoah, revient sur la persécution des populations homosexuelles sous le Troisième Reich.

L’exposition s’inscrit dans le temps long. « Il faut comprendre que la période nazie n’est pas une parenthèse incompréhensible mais qu’elle s’inscrit dans une longue histoire de répression de l’homosexualité en Europe » explique Florence Tamagne, commissaire de l’exposition. Le parcours débute à l’aube des premières revendications politiques des homosexuels, incarnées par le militant Magnus Hirschfeld, qui meurt en exil à Nice, en 1935. Leur bête noire : le paragraphe 175 du Code pénal allemand, introduit en 1871 et qui condamnera les homosexuels jusqu’en 1994. » | Par Paul Lonceint | dimanche 27 juin 2021

Remembering the Holocaust: Prince Charles Speaks

Remembering the Holocaust: Prince Charles speaks a the podium at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem.

Steinmeier at Yad Vashem: 'I Bow in Deepest Sorrow for German Acts' | DW News

Ceremonies were held at the Yad Vashem Memorial in Jerusalem to honor Holocaust victims and survivors. This is the first in a series of events marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, which is commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Dozens of international heads of state and government joined Israeli leaders at the ceremony. . In the first speech by a German president at Yad Vashem, Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Germany's responsibility for the crimes of the Nazi regime will never end. Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Emmanuel Macron and US Vice President Mike Pence were also among those who remembered one of the world's darkest chapters and vowed to fight anti-Semitism in their countries.

Germany Refuses to Accept Netanyahu’s Claim Palestinian Inspired Holocaust

THE GUARDIAN: Germany says it has no reason to change its view of history after Israel’s prime minister blames mufti of Jerusalem for inciting Holocaust

Germany has said it has no reason to change its view of history after Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, said Adolf Hitler had been persuaded to carry out the Holocaust by a Palestinian leader.

Before a trip to Berlin, Netanyahu provoked incredulity and anger among many when he claimed in a speech that Hitler had only wanted to expel Europe’s Jews and that the idea to exterminate them had come from the then mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini.

But at a joint press conference with Netanyahu on Wednesday, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, made it clear she saw no need for a shift in interpreting history, saying: “We abide by our responsibility for the Shoah.” » | Kate Connolly in Berlin | Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Jewish Survivor Zelda-Rivka Hait Testimony

Jewish Survivor Lillian Saunders Testimony

Holocaust Survivor Ellen Brandt Testimony

Israel Remembers Holocaust Victims with Siren, Ceremonies
YNET NEWS: Two-minute siren sounds at 10 am in memory of six million Jews who perished in Holocaust; traditional memorial services held across country

A two-minute siren sounded across the country at 10 am Thursday in memory of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.

The siren kicked off memorial services nationwide, including a wreath-laying ceremony at Jerusalem's Yad Vashem Museum. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres and IDF Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Benny Gantz were among the officials to lay wreaths in memory of the Nazis' victims.

Holocaust survivors lit memorial candles during a subsequent service held at the Knesset, under the title "Unto Every Person There is a Name."

During the service, Peres recounted the manner in which the Nazis dragged the Jews at the Polish village where his family resided into a wooden synagogue: "The gates were locked and they were burned alive. According to one testimony, a woman who remained called on the Jews to run. But they were all shot. No one survived."

Peres' told the attendees about the family he had lost in the Holocaust, and recalled the last words his grandfather told him: "Wherever you go, stay Jewish, no matter what misfortune befalls." » | Yair Altman, Shahar Chai | Thursday, April 19, 2012

YNET NEWS: Holocaust memory alive: Op-ed: As opposed to common perception, interest in Holocaust keeps growing worldwide » | Eitan Haber | Wednesday, April 18, 2012

THE HUFFINGTON POST: Holocaust Remembrance Day: Israel Honors 6 Million Victims Of Nazi Holocaust – JERUSALEM -- Israelis flocked to the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial Thursday to read the names of loved ones who perished at the hands of the Nazis during World War II, a rite that has become a centerpiece of the country's annual commemoration for the 6 million Jews killed in the genocide. ¶ The ceremony, known as "Every Person Has a Name," tries to go beyond the huge numbers to personalize the stories of individuals, families and communities destroyed during the war. » | Aron Heller | Thursday, April 19, 2012

Obama Vows to Give Meaning to 'Never Again'
YNET NEWS: President pledges to ensure Shoah is never repeated; 'We dedicate ourselves to giving meaning to those powerful words: Never Forget. Never Again,' he says

WASHINGTON - Message to Iran? US President Barack Obama issued a statement on the occasion of International Holocaust Remembrance Day Friday, pledging to ensure that the Shoah is never forgotten or repeated.

"Together with the State of Israel, and all our friends around the world, we dedicate ourselves to giving meaning to those powerful words: 'Never Forget. Never Again,'" Obama said.

"Michelle and I join people in the United States, in Israel, and across the globe as we remember the six million Jews and millions of others who were murdered at the hands of the Nazis," the president said. "We commit ourselves to keeping their memories alive not only in our thoughts, but through our actions."

Obama pledged to fight Holocaust deniers, noting that "as we celebrate the strength and resilience of survivors, we pledge to stand strong against all those who would commit atrocities, against the resurgence of anti-Semitism, and against hatred in all its forms." » | Yitzhak Benhorin | Friday, January 27, 2012

Claude Lanzmann: Shoah (Trailer)

The Holocaust in Color: Nazi Rising Terror and Concentration Camps

Netanyahu at Auschwitz: World Must Unite to Confront New Threats
HAARETZ: Holocaust teaches that murderers must be stopped before they act, says PM in apparent reference to Iran.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told dignitaries gathered at the Auschwitz extermination camp on Wednesday that the world must learn from the Holocaust to unite against new threats.

In what was apparently a thinly veiled reference to Iran, Netanyahu called on the international community to come together to confront "impending dangers".

Israel believes Iran to be building a nuclear bomb and views the Islamic Republic as an existential threat. Iran insists its nuclear program is purely for civilian purposes.

"We must warn of the impending danger to the rest of the world and at the same time to be ready to defend ourselves," Netanyahu said. "The most important lesson from the Shoah is that murderous evil must be stopped as soon as possible, before it can realize its schemes."

"We the Jewish people learned the lesson [of the Holocaust] well after we lost one-third of our people," Netanyahu said, adding that a strong state of Israel with a powerful army was the only guarantee of preventing a second Holocaust.

"I pledge as prime minister that we will never let the hand of evil harm our people and our state, never again," he said.

Netanyahu added: "All enlightened nations must absorb this lesson," pledging that as the head of the state of he would not to allow a "new Amalek" to threaten again to destroy the Jewish nation - a reference to a biblical king who waged war against the Jews.

Earlier on Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI recalled the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, and event which revealed "the unprecedented cruelty," of the Nazi Holocaust.

The 82-year-old pontiff made the remarks in his native German during his weekly general audience.

"On 27 January 1945, the gates of the Nazi concentration camp near the Polish city of Oswiecim, better known by its German name of Auschwitz, were opened and the few survivors freed," Benedict said.

"That event, and the testimony of those who survived, revealed to the world the horror of the crimes of unprecedented cruelty committed in the extermination camps created by Nazi Germany," added the pope, who as a teenager - like most others at the time - had been a member of the Hitler Youth in the waning days of the war.

International Holocaust Remembrance Day which is being marked in several European nations, serves, according to Benedict, to recall "the planned annihilation of the Jews, and to honor those who, at the risk of their own lives, protected the persecuted and sought to oppose the murderous insanity." >>> Cnaan Liphshiz, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service, and News Agencies | Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Warnung vor Gleichgültigkeit: Mahnende Worte zum Holocaust-Gedenktag in Deutschland
«Der Mangel an Empathie, die Gleichgültigkeit gegenüber dem Schicksal des Anderen und die fehlende Bereitschaft, für die Werte einer demokratischen und toleranten Gesellschaft einzutreten, waren es, die dem verbrecherischen Hitler-Regime den Weg geebnet haben.» – Charlotte Knoblauch, die Präsidentin des Zentralrats der deutschen Juden
NZZ ONLINE: In Deutschland ist am Mittwoch der Holocaust-Gedenktag begangen worden. Während die Präsidentin des Zentralrats der deutschen Juden vor der Gleichgültigkeit warnte, sprach der israelische Präsident Peres von der Gefahr, die von Iran ausgehe.

Zum Holocaust-Gedenktag hat der Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland vor «Gleichgültigkeit gegenüber dem Schicksal des Anderen» gewarnt. «Es ist nicht hinnehmbar, dass Rechtsextremisten 65 Jahre nach dem Ende der nationalsozialistischen Schreckensherrschaft braunes Gedankengut verbreiten», monierte Präsidentin Charlotte Knobloch am Mittwoch. Sie versuchten, mit perfiden Strategien die Demokratie zu unterwandern. >>> ddp | Mittwoch, 27. Januar 2010

Requiem for the Pain: 65 Years After Auschwitz Horror

L'hommage du monde aux victimes d'Auschwitz
L'entrée du camp. Auschwitz-Birkenau, seul camp d'extermination à avoir conservé des traces tangibles de la Shoah, est aujourd'hui très abîmé par le temps. Crédits photo : Le Figaro
LE FIGARO: Des dirigeants d'une vingtaine de pays commémorent la libération du camp, il y a 65 ans.

Une centaine d'anciens prisonniers - contre deux mille il y a cinq ans - participent ce mercredi au 65e anniversaire de la libération d'Auschwitz-Birkenau. Dans quelques années, les derniers témoins de l'Holocauste auront disparu. Sans eux, quelle mémoire en garderons-nous ? À quoi sert le Musée d'Auschwitz, puisque d'autres génocides ont montré qu'il avait échoué dans sa mission de prévention ? Comment donc enseigner Auschwitz à des générations qui n'ont ou n'auront plus de lien direct avec cette tragédie ? C'est sur ces questions que les ministres de l'Éducation des pays membres de l'Union européenne, réunis exceptionnellement à Auschwitz, sont invités à plancher ce mercredi matin, en marge des cérémonies officielles auxquelles assisteront le président et le premier ministre polonais, Lech Kaczynski et Donald Tusk, le chef du gouvernement israélien Benyamin Nétanyahou et les délégués d'une vingtaine de pays. En l'absence du ministre de l'Éducation Luc Chatel, la France est représentée par le secrétaire d'État à la Défense Hubert Falco, accompagné de Simone Weil, de l'historien Serge Klarsfeld, de parlementaires et d'une trentaine de lycéens. >>> D’envoyée spéciale du Figaro à Auschwitz, Arielle Thedrel | Mardi 26 Janvier 2010

Julian Kossoff – Holocaust Memorial Day: Pieces of a Puzzle
Photograph: The Telegraph
THE TELEGRAPH – BLOG: I have spent the last week wondering how to mark Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) on my blog and have failed to come up with a coherent idea. It’s a subject that plays tricks with the psyche.

So please excuse me if I just spill some ideas out on the page, pieces of my unfinished Shoah jigsaw.

- Holocaust Memorial Day is commemorated internationally on 27th January each year. This date was chosen as it is the anniversary of the day in 1945 on which the Soviet Army liberated the largest Nazi concentration camp.

HMD aims to raise awareness and understanding of the events of the Holocaust and subsequent genocides as a continuing issue for all humanity, based on a recognition that it could happen again anywhere and at any time, unless we ensure that our society opposes discrimination, persecution and racism.

- If you have the opportunity, go to Auschwitz. It’s the great anti-wonder of the world. Part pilgrimage, part journey to the heart of darkness: apocalypse then. Wander its tombs, its mansions of horror.

There is the ‘room of hair’, great rotting mounds of the stuff, shaved from the 1.1m heads.

Another door opens on a pile of human spare parts. A grotesque, twisted sculpture of wooden legs, prosethic arms, trusses, metal hands, neck braces, rusting callipers, clunking fists – all hinges and brackets – that the crematoria could not devour.

There is the ‘playroom’, no nursery rhymes just ghost stories, no sweet dreams just nightmares. It stores the toys of all the ‘lost boys and girls.’

There among the broken animals and forgotten battalions tin soldiers sit forlorn teddy bears, last cuddled by tiny arms in a stinking cattle truck heading east one freezing night, while glassy eyed dollies stare into the abyss waiting for ‘mummy’ who will never return. >>> Julian Kossoff | Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Steven Spielberg's Message for Yad Vashem's Visual Center


Spiegel Video anschauen: Auschwitz: 65. Jahrestag der Befreiung

Die Presse Bildergalerie: Hitlers Mordfabrik: Vor 65 Jahren wurde Auschwitz befreit >>>

Ahmadinejad 'Proud'* of Angering West over Holocaust Denial
HAARETZ: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said he was proud that the West was outraged over his recent outburst of Holocaust denial, Iran's state news agency reported Monday.

The report by IRNA quoted Ahmadinejad as saying that angering the world's "professional man slayers" - an apparent reference to Israel and some in the West - was a source of pride for him.

He did not elaborate further. During a speech on Friday, the Iranian president told a Tehran crowd assembled for Quds (Jerusalem) Day Friday that, "The pretext [Holocaust] for the creation of the Zionist regime [Israel] is false ... It is a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim." >>> Associated Press and Haaretz Service | Tuesday, September 22, 2009

*What a sick little man Ahmadinejad is! "Proud" of angering the West? He should be thoroughly ashamed of himself! And what about that pathetic excuse for a religious leader, the so-called 'Supreme Leader', Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? What a joke he is!