Underground tunnel discovered at Sobibor
Polish and Israeli archaeologists have discovered traces of an underground tunnel at the site of the former death camp in Sobibor. More ▸
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Demjanjuk conviction hailed as long-awaited victory for justice
By Toby AxelrodWith the guilty verdict announced in a Munich courtroom following a trial that lasted a year and a half — capping more than three decades of legal drama — former Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk, 91, is now officially recognized as a war criminal. More ▸
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Sobibor survivor testifies in Demjanjuk trial
By Toby AxelrodA survivor testifying at the war crimes trial of accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk said he did not recall seeing Demjanjuk at the camp. More ▸
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Arrest warrant issued for Demjanjuk
By Toby AxelrodA Munich court issued an arrest warrant for alleged Nazi war criminal Ivan Demjanjuk. More ▸
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Only 19 of the More Than 34,000 Dutch Jews Sent-to Polish Death Camp Survived
Only 19 Dutch Jews survived out of the 34,313 that were imprisoned in the Sobibor concentration camp in Poland, according to a report made today by the Dutch Red Cross Society. More ▸
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Hoess Confirms Jewish Historian’s Testimony That 1,500,000 Jews Murdered at Oswiecim
Rudolf Hoess, former commandant of the Oswiecim death camp, on trial here for murdering 4,000,000 persons many of whom were Jews, today confirmed testimony by Dr. J.M. Blumenthal, director of the Jewish Historical Commission in Poland, that approximately 1,500,000 Jews were exterminated at Oswiecim. Hoess, who has been described as “the greatest mass murderer in… More ▸
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Jewish Mass Graves Looted in Poland by Criminals Seeking Valuables
Police authorities today launched a campaign to put an end to looting of mass graves of Jews in the areas of Treblinka, Majdanek, Sobibor and Trawniki where Nazi extermination camps formerly existed. Large sections of the graves have been dug up by criminals in search of valuables. The excavations are carried on with the help… More ▸
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Polish Anti-semitic Students Delivered Jews to Gestapo During Occupation of Poland
Capt. Leon Peretz, a Jewish captain in the Polish Army who was liberated by American troops from a camp in Bavaria, today charged that Polish anti-Semitic students, members of the Nara Party, cooperated with the Germans during the occupation of Poland and delivered many Jews to the Gestapo. Arriving in London, Capt. Peretz, who is… More ▸
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Gestapo Plan for Deportation of Jews from Rumania to Poland Thwarted in Bucharest
A German plan to deport hundreds of thousands of Rumanian Jews to death camps in Poland was thwarted by a high Rumanian official who pigeonholed a deportation order, although it had been approved by Premier Antonescu, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned today. The plan was revealed in a document found in the German embassy here…. More ▸
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Germans Raze All Traces of the “jewish Extermination Camps” Before Leaving Poland
Correspondents of the Moscow press now visiting the liberated area in Poland today reported from Lublin that the Germans have razed to the ground all buildings in the extermination camp of Treblinka, including the gas chambers where tens of thousands of Jews were suffocated to death. The Moscow papers, however, assert that there are people… More ▸
