This is our history, it’s vital for the country to know . Today, we are ready to confront this.
— French curator Olivier Accarie on the release of the French police documents concerning “Vel d’Hiv,” the two-day long round up of Paris Jews in July 1942
(Source: operationkino)
July 19, 2012, 4:00pm / 40
Report: Hitler's request protected a Jewish WWI vet
A Jewish World War I veteran was allegedly spared—for a while, at least—from Nazi persecution thanks to a letter that claimed Adolf Hitler wanted him protected, a German Jewish newspaper reported.
The Nazi leader ordered the genocide of all Europe’s Jews but apparently wanted Ernst Hess, a judge, to be left alone because they had served in the same WWI unit and Hess had briefly been his commanding officer, said historian Susanne Mauss, who discovered the letter. It was signed by a senior member of the SS paramilitary organization and dated Aug. 19, 1940.
July 14, 2012, 1:49pm / 201
July 11, 2012, 3:00pm / 31
Zunia Shtrom, a Jewish partisan from the Kovno Ghetto
(Source: holocaustresearchproject.org)
June 25, 2012, 12:48pm / 94
Court: Holocaust survivor's family must return Assyrian artifact to Berlin
Holocaust survivors have sued to get family treasures back, maintaining stolen goods should be returned to their owners. Now one survivor’s family has been ordered to surrender a treasure on those very same grounds.
June 02, 2012, 11:50am / 4
