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Birkenau (Germany)

Type: City

Name: Birkenau (Germany)

Country: Germany

Latitude: 49.57

Longitude: 8.7

population: 10,406

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Corfe Hills School

Visiting Auschwitz

The ease with which visitors come and go through the gates of the Auschwitz concentration camps is ironic.No longer do people stand at the cast iron entrance, beckoning in more people to be enclosed behind the barbed wire, never to see the outside world ... [Published Dorset Echo - May 18 2013]

Entities: Corfe Hills School, Concentration Camp, Birkenau (Germany)

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

When in Poland

--University of Delaware students can do anything they put their minds to, as demonstrated by graduate student Allison Rice, who developed and led a 10-day study abroad trip to Poland over spring break.She and eight fellow graduate students from the School ... [Published University of Delaware - May 15 2013]

Entities: Cracow, Poland, Warsaw, Birkenau (Germany), Old Town (United States)

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Separated by Age and by Continent, but United by Spirit to Survive

The two men grew up on separate continents, speaking their own languages. One was not yet 20; the other was bearing down on 100. Yet within half an hour of meeting each other this week for the first time, Henry Kabiyona and Sol Rosenkranz knew each others ... [Published New York Times - May 10 2013]

Entities: Rwanda, Orphans, Birkenau (Germany), Poland

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Former Auschwitz guard arrested in Germany

Four suspected Nazi criminals have been tracked down in Germany. The authorities are checking evidence that the suspects served as prison guards at the Auschwitz death camp.One of them, Hans Lipschis, aged 93, was arrested on May 6. After the war, he ... [Published Voice of Russia - May 09 2013]

Entities: Nazi, Crime, Germany

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

Historic Mission to Europe

On the eve of the International victory day May 9, a group of 100 University students from across Russia took part in a historic mission, visiting Jewish sites all throughout Eastern Europe. The trips objective was to reconnect Jewish Russian youth to ... [Published Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS - May 07 2013]

Entities: Shabbat, Jewish Community, Larry Heard, Gregory Finger

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

John Demjanjuk

Group: Suspected Auschwitz death camp guard arrested in Germany

_ A suspected Auschwitz death camp guard and former Chicago resident was arrested Monday in Germany, according to a prominent Nazi-hunting group.Prosecutors in the German city of Stuttgart did not name the 93-year-old man, but said he was arrested on ... [Published Chicago Tribune - May 07 2013]

Entities: Efraim Zuroff, Nazi, John Demjanjuk, Germany, Deportation

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 1 reports

With Auschwitz’s historic grounds falling into disrepair, Poland appeals for international funds to preserve concentration camp

Looking at old photographs, Eli Rubenstein can spot the ways in which the historic Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp has fallen victim to the passage of time. Mr. Rubenstein, who leads educational tours of the site every year, has watched over 25 ... [Published National Post - Top Stories - May 06 2013]

Entities: Concentration Camp, Shimon Fogel, Poland, Birkenau (Germany), Holocaust

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Students joined by MPs on journey to Auschwitz

NINE cross-party MPs from across the region are to accompany a group of 200 sixth-form students on a trip to the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau tomorrow. Diana Johnson, Nic Dakin, Andrew Percy, Fabian Hamilton, Meg Munn, Alec Shelbrooke, Craig ... [Published Yorkshire Post - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Diana Johnson, Nazi, Holocaust, Hymers College

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Holocaust Tour

I had the opportunity to spend my Easter break in Europe, and am I ever glad I went. I went with my cousin Sydney Tluchak and her school from Gronlid, SK, a group of eight of us, six kids and two chaperones. I had been counting down the days for the past ... [Published Whitewood Herald - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Holocaust, Oskar Schindler, Prague

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

History comes alive

Medieval, World War II and Cold War history came alive to a group of Minarets High School students as they visited historical sites on a European study tour over spring break."It was an incredible experience that taught students about the importance of ... [Published Sierra Star - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: World War II, Germany, Cold War, Berlin

First reported Apr 16 2013 - Updated Apr 16 2013 - 1 reports

KZ: Two letters, literally hell

Weimar, GermanyBy U.S. troops arrived at German KZ (concentration camp) Buchenwald, near Weimar on April 11, 1945. The hands of the tower clock on top of the entrance gate are exactly set to a quarter past three: the time of liberation.Walking through ... [Published Reuters - Apr 16 2013]

Entities: Concentration Camp, Birkenau (Germany), Weimar (United States), Nazi

First reported Apr 07 2013 - Updated Apr 08 2013 - 1 reports

Israeli army chief due in Poland for Holocaust commemoration events

JERUSALEM, April 7 (Xinhua) -- The chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz flew to Poland on Sunday to head a commemorative visit in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day.The Israeli delegation comprised of top officers, parents ... [Published Xinhua News Agency - Apr 07 2013]

Entities: Holocaust, Benny Gantz, Israeli Army, Poland

Quotes

"These events may have taken place 70 years ago during the war against Hitler’s regime in Germany, but we need to continue to teach the lessons of the Holocaust to younger generations in order to fight bigotry, hatred and the ignorance behind it."

Students joined by MPs on journey to Auschwitz [Published Yorkshire Post - Apr 30 2013]

...history, understanding culture, and becoming global citizens through education and travel," said Daniel Ching, Minarets world history teacher. "I couldn't have asked for more adventurous and fun group of kids to travel around the world with."

History comes alive [Published Sierra Star - Apr 25 2013]