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Historical Notes: The Death of Stalin’s Son
Enraged by a quarrel-with his fellow inmates, a Russian prisoner burst from his barracks room in the Nazi concen tration camp at Sachsenhausen ... in the Kremlin one night in the late 1920s ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency6y
Herman Shine, one of the last survivors to have escaped Auschwitz, dies at 95
Shine, born Mendel Scheingesicht in Berlin, was arrested in that German city in 1939 and then deported with 1,700 other Polish Jews to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Shine’s father was ...
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101-year-old former Nazi death camp guard sentenced to 5 years in prison
Josef Schütz, 101, was found guilty of complicity in the mass murder of 3,518 prisoners at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, north of Berlin, between 1942 and 1945. Charlotte Knobloch ...
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‘They discriminated against us, cursed at us, just because we were refugees … I was nine—the war wasn’t my fault.’
Her father once plopped her in the car for an errand to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the edge of Berlin ... Finally, on a freezing night in February 1945, the evacuation order ...
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Russian envoy attends solemn event dedicated to liberation of Sachsenhausen death camp
ORANIENBURG /Germany/, April 29. /TASS/. Memorial events, dedicated to the anniversary of liberation of the former Sachsenhausen Nazi concentration camp took place in Germany’s Oranienburg.