Alexander Pechersky
Leader of the Sobibor Revolt
Testimony
Alexander Pechersky
I was born in Kremenchug in 1919, but spent my childhood in Rostov. After I finished my secondary studies I entered a music school. Music and theatre were the most important things in my life. I directed amateur dramatic circles and took a great interest in the arts.
In [...]
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The Department of History, University of Northampton & The Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
[Please note that editorials posted in this section are the sole viewpoints of the individual author and do not necessarily
represent any collective opinion of the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team, or the University of Northampton]
BUESO/LAROUCHE FORUM: 2pm. [...]
Herschel Grynszpan
Herschel Grynszpan
Herschel Grynszpan was born on the 28 March 1921 in Hannover, Germany, to Zindel and Rivka Grynszpan. He was one of three children an elder sister named Esther and a brother Mordechai.
Zindel a tailor prospered and Herschel grew up an intelligent sensitive child, with few close friends and was an active member [...]
Oskar Schindler
“He who saves a single soul , saves the world entire”
The Jewish Inscription on Schindler’s ring given to him by the Jews at Brunnlitz.
Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler was born on 18 April 1908 in Svitavy, a Moravian industrial town, which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Many ethnic Germans lived in Svitavy, and [...]
Heinrich Müller
Heinrich Müller
Heinrich Müller was Head of the Gestapo during World War Two and Adolf Eichmann’s immediate superior, responsible for implementing the “Final Solution”.
Heinrich Müller was born in Munich on 28 April 1901, of Catholic parents. During the Great War he served as a flight leader on the eastern front and was awarded the [...]
The destruction of the Jews of Italy
Italian soldiers waving white flag of surrender
The Italian Government surrendered its forces to the Allies on 8 September 1943, and on the following day General Mark Clark launched Operation Avalanche, the landing of Allied troops on the coast of Italy, near Salerno.
On the 10 September 1943 the Germans occupied [...]
Dora – Mittelbau/Nordhausen
Concentration Camp
Dora – Mittelbau also known Dora-Nordhausen was a concentration camp in the Harz Mountains, three miles from Nordhausen, Saxony, in Germany.
The Lutherplatz in the town of Nordhausen
The Dora-Mittelbau camp was first mentioned on 27 August 1943 as an external unit of the Buchenwald concentration camp. On 28 October 1944 it became a [...]
Der ewige Jude
The “Eternal Jew” or the “Wandering Jew”
Nazi propaganda art the “Wandering Jew”
The concept of the “Wandering Jew” is far older than National Socialism. It derives from a literary and popular legend, about a Jew who mocked or mistreated Jesus while he was on his way to the cross and who was condemned therefore [...]
The Auschwitz Protocol
The Vrba-Wetzler Report
[Transcribed from the original O.S.I report of the US Department of Justice & the War Refugee Board Archives]
(Photos added to enhance the text)
Rudolf Vrba
Alfred Wetzler
I. AUSCHWITZ AND BIRKENAU
ON THE 13TH April, 1942 our group, consisting of 1,000 men, was loaded into railroad cars at the assembly camp of SERED. The [...]
