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Fast Forward 16,000 Lost Mementos of Auschwitz Victims Unearthed
— The Auschwitz Museum says it has rescued from storage 16,000 personal items belonging to Jews killed at the Nazi death camp. Museum officials said Tuesday that Poland’s former Communist government stored the items — including empty medicine bottles, shoes, jewelry and watches — and then neglected them, Agence France Press reported. “In most cases, these…
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News Chris Lerman, 90: She Helped America Remember the Holocaust
I first met Rosalie Chris Lerman and her husband, Miles Lerman, in 1978 when I interviewed for the position of deputy director of the President’s Commission on the Holocaust. As they said in “Casablanca,” it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. In the almost 40 years that followed we worked together building the United…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Victim’s Gold Jewelry Unearthed in False Bottom of Mug
WARSAW, Poland — Staffers at the Auschwitz museum found a gold ring hidden in a false bottom of one of the cups on display in the main exhibition. During conservation work on one of the enamel mugs, a double, or false, bottom was discovered, the museum said in a statement this week. Inside the false…
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Fast Forward Ernest Michel, Auschwitz Survivor and Community Leader, Dies at 92
NEW YORK (JTA) — Ernest (Ernie) Michel, who after surviving Auschwitz and a forced death march went on to become a prominent American Jewish communal leader, has died at 92. Michel died at his home in Manhattan on Saturday. He worked as a Jewish communal professional for more than 60 years, joining the staff of…
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Culture How I Honored My Grandfather’s Memory — With a 20-Square-Foot Model of Auschwitz
It was August 1944 when the last trains rolled out of Radogoszcz station from the Łódź ghetto. The trains were headed for Auschwitz, and my great-grandfather Edward (Yehuda) Biderman was on one of these ill-fated transports. He had suffered so much already. Born into poverty on October 3, 1911, in Poland, he dropped out of…
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Fast Forward 94-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Apologizes to Victims in Court
— A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard currently on trial in Germany apologized to his victims in court. Reinhold Hanning, a former Nazi SS officer on trial for being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people, said Friday in court in the western German city of Detmold, that he is “ashamed that I knowingly let…
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Fast Forward 93-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Dies A Week Before Trial
A former SS guard died a week before he was scheduled to go on trial for his alleged role in the murder of more than 1,000 people at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Ernest Tremmel’s death was announced Thursday, The Jerusalem Post . Tremmel, 93, was scheduled to go on trial in Hanau,…
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Fast Forward ‘Tell the Truth,’ Auschwitz Survivor Urges Accused in Nazi Trials
Berlin – A Holocaust survivor said on Tuesday that four suspects accused by German prosecutors of being accessory to murder at Auschwitz must have known of the mass killings taking place at the camp because of the “unbearable stench” of burning bodies. Germany is holding what are likely to be its last trials linked to…
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