Saw this plaque outside our hotel in Helsinki today. Never thought about Finland & the Holocaust before. Feel free to add more to the thread. I...
Hello, I am conducting research on a Polish political deportee (Michal Suminski) who was interned from April 1943 at Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II...
Pte. John Edward Williams, 8th Bn King’s Own Royal Regiment Service No.: 801166 Award: Mentioned in Despatches Missing: 27th April 1940 WILLIAMS...
Hi My Grandad served in the Royal Engineers training at Ripon at the beginning of 1940 and being sent to the Isle of Sheppey until September...
This is a wonderful book. Eddie grew up in a happy, loving, well-to-do, German family. He considered himself German first and Jewish second. But...
I spotted a short book review by Phil Curme via Twitter 'A Judge In Auschwitz: Konrad Morgen's Crusade Against SS Corruption & Illegal Murder' by...
Date of Enlistment: 16 May 1928 Army Number: 2732571 Rank: Guardsman Name: Henry SLOCOMBE Unit: 2 Welsh Guards Date of Birth: 14 June 1909 Place...
Date of Enlistment: 20 November1933 Army Number: 2733729 Rank: Corporal Name: Robert Edgar HOUSTON Unit: 2 Welsh Guards, 2 Company Date of Birth:...
SITES AROUND ‘AUSCHWITZ-1’ As a continuation of the recent ‘Beyond the Birkenau’ material, I invite you to join my walking tour around the...
SITES AROUND THE AUSCHWITZ BIRKENAU My new material from the Poland-2018 trip took me almost a month of researching, writing, editing. I have...
Auschwitz Museum asks visitors not to balance on train tracks | DW | 21.03.2019
I had a quick scan to see if this had been posted before, but couldn't find it, however if it has apologies. I read this book as an online book...
Remarkable programme on Radio 4 this morning. Should be on iPlayer soon. BBC Radio 4 - The Reunion, Auschwitz Survivors
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02prmgr More than 50 first-hand accounts of significant moments in WW2. Looking back at almost six years of...
Near the end of World War II, thousands of Allied ex-POWs were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front, modern day Ukraine. With no food,...
I have read that there were over 3000 Jehova Witnesses in Auschwitz. Where any other christian sects like the Amish etc treated in the same way. Chris
Auschwitz, Building 24 I read or heard a little about this but could find very little detail any one out there know more ? On TV last night...
Interesting story in the ST.Magazine in which a German Jew,serving in the British Army was central to Hoess's apprehension in Schleswig Holstein...
Some rather good ''Then & Nows'' on the BBC News website. BBC News - In pictures: Auschwitz-Birkenau, then and now
I was there a few days ago and am aware of a local publication slagging off the food venders at the car park. This is surprising when my tour...
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