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Images of prisoners apparently enjoying cultural events at Theresienstadt cannot be read as evidence that the ghetto was a humane refuge. Nazi authorities used the site to mislead outside…
2:09Franz Suchomel had served at the Treblinka killing center. Decades later, Claude Lanzmann interviewed him while assembling the testimony that became Shoah. The surviving recording is an…
1:09In the final weeks of the war in Europe, the SS moved thousands of prisoners out of Neuengamme concentration camp and onto ships in the Lübeck area. Conditions aboard were catastrophic.…
1:11Adolf Eichmann helped organize the deportation of Jews across Nazi-controlled Europe. After the war he escaped to Argentina, where Israeli agents captured him in 1960. His trial in…
0:58Stella Kübler, also known as Stella Goldschlag, was a Jewish Berliner who became an informer for the Gestapo. Her case belongs to the history of people attempting to survive Nazi…
1:40Rudolf Höss served as the first commandant of Auschwitz and played a central role in developing the camp into a major site of persecution and mass murder. His later assignments and return…
0:42Irma Grese was among the camp personnel tried by a British military court in 1945 in the proceedings commonly known as the Belsen trial. The case considered crimes at Bergen-Belsen and…
1:11The Nazi propaganda film made at Theresienstadt presented selected scenes of work, culture and social activity inside a ghetto. That appearance depended on control over what could be…
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