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The Breendonk Internment camp

Breendonck Internment Camp in Belgium   German troops outside the main entrance to the Breendonck camp The camp known as Breendonck was located in the village of Breendonk, about 20 km outside of Mechelen. Built in 1906 the fortress was erected near the junction of the Antwerp – Brussels and Mechelen – Dendermonde roads, as [...]

Munich – The city at the heart of Nazism!

Munich the capital of the German state of Bavaria, which is in Southern Germany, was the home of the Nazi movement and the site of the model concentration camp at Dachau.

Jews were living in Munich at the beginning of the thirteenth century, but they were expelled in 1442, and by 1790 there were only 127 Jews living in Munich.

Can Vienna come to terms with its past?

During the past two decades, the city has stepped up efforts to face up to the history of Jews in Vienna, including both positive and negative aspects, and to reexamine Vienna’s Jewish heritage. In addition to the Jewish institutions that have sprung up over the last few years – thanks to the support of the City of Vienna – a number of museums and memorials evoke the city’s Jewish heritage.

Holocaust Propaganda – Julius Streicher

Streicher reached millions of Germans, through his newspaper columns, and his endless speaking tours imbuing them, with his own poisonous brew of hatred, sadism and perversity.

The trial and execution of Amon Goeth

Witness: Pemper: The incidents of savaging by dogs, were in general rare. Hanging on the other hand, was a permissible way of killing in a concentration camp. In a forced labour camp it was applied when the death was intended to be used as a deterrent to others, as in the case of Hauberstock and Krautwirt.

SS station master of death!

 I did not know that the persons in these transports were to be liquidated in Auschwitz. The transports were ordered in order to employ Jews for labour or to evacuate them.

The Treblinka Death Camp!

The camp was laid out in an irregular rectangle 400m by 600m, and was surrounded by a barbed wire fence intertwined with tree branches to block any view into the camp from the outside. A second outer fence consisting of barbed wire and anti-tank obstacles called `Spanish Horses’, was also constructed at a later stage. Watchtowers 8m high were placed at each of the four corners of the camp, and additional towers were built in the extermination area….

The Sobibor Revolt Leaders! www.HolocaustResearchProject.org

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 [...]

The LaRouche Group, are they a threat? www.HolocaustResearchProject.org

Essays & Editorials  [home] 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 [...]

The origings of Kristalnacht & the story of Herschel Grynszpan

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 [...]