Gyorgy Kun, a Hungarian Jew, was 12 when he stepped off the cattle car that delivered him and his family to Auschwitz in 1944 ...
Encouraged by the Nazis to form marching bands to foster the myth death camps were places of industry, inmates with musical talent had a slightly better chance of surviving the Holocaust... and one ...
What makes “Here There Are Blueberries” so unsettling is that it refuses to treat Nazis as monsters. Monsters are easy to ...
The heartbreaking story of two prisoners in a World War II concentration camp was depicted in a 2024 series on Sky.
A severely emaciated man, who was “akin to a survivor of Auschwitz’s death camp” when he was rescued from a Connecticut house ...
Kun and his brother Istvan survived Auschwitz in part due to the fact that Dr. Mengele believed them to be twins and thus ...
Anita Lasker survived the Holocaust because, as a Berlin teenager, she had enjoyed her cello lessons. The Hungarian Lily ...
The biographer and journalist chooses her favourite works about women in war. Her latest book is "The Women's Orchestra of ...
Greece marked the anniversary of the departure in 1943 of the first train from Thessaloniki taking Jews to Auschwitz death ...
An Israeli high school student was arrested and fined for performing a Nazi salute at Auschwitz during a school trip.
Anne Sebba’s remarkable book draws on real-life interviews with survivors of a group that saved them – but not without a cost ...