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

German Prosecutors to Hold Nazi Death-Camp Guards to Account

REUTERS/Peter AndrewsBarbed-wire fences at the former Auschwitz -Birkenau death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, on January 27, 2010The events of the Holocaust seven decades ago are starting to fade from living memory, but the wheels of justice are still tu ... [Published Time - May 15 2013]

Entities: Kurt Schrimm, Nazi, John Demjanjuk, Peter Andrews, Oswiecim (Poland)

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

John Demjanjuk

'Hurried Action': Germany Criticized for Late Push on War Criminals

Last week's arrest of a 93-year-old on suspicion of abetting murder as a guard at Auschwitz is part of a late push by German authorities to bring lower-ranking Nazi helpers to justice. Legal experts say they should have -- and could have -- done so decades ... [Published Spiegel Online - May 13 2013]

Entities: John Demjanjuk, Nazi, Germany

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 5 reports

Last Effort to Find Nazi War Criminals

That message resounded loudly this week as Germany announced the arrest of Hans Lipschis, age 93, for complicity in mass murders that took place at the notorious Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he served as a guard in 1941-1945. Lipschis-who ... [Published National Geographic - May 08 2013]

Entities: Nazi, Efraim Zuroff, SWC, John Demjanjuk, Gerhard Sommer

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

Ex-SS man (93) is arrested in Auschwitz guard probe

A 93-year-old man who was deported from the US for lying about his Nazi past has been arrested by German authorities over allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard.Hans Lipschis was taken into custody after authorities concluded there was ... [Published Evening Herald - May 07 2013]

Entities: Nazi, Deportation, Accessory, Efraim Zuroff

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 8 reports

Perpetrators of the Holocaust: Alleged Auschwitz Guard Arrested

Hans Lipschis, a 93-year-old thought to have been a guard at Auschwitz, was arrested in Germany on Monday. The Lithuanian-born man, who was added to the Simon Wiesenthal Center's most wanted list last month, says he was only a cook. But prosecutors believe ... [Published Spiegel Online - May 07 2013]

Entities: Simon Wiesenthal, Arrests, John Demjanjuk

First reported May 03 2013 - Updated May 03 2013 - 1 reports

Ventnor Holocaust survivor finally finds answers to her family's fate

By JOEL LANDAU, Staff Writer pressofAtlanticCity.comHolocaust survivor Ruth Kessler has always carried a heavy burden not knowing what happened to her mother and sister during World War II.The Ventnor resident, now 79, knew her family members died in ... [Published Press of Atlantic City - May 03 2013]

Entities: Holocaust, World War II, Concentration Camp, Sobibor, Vienna

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

BBC British Broadcasting Corp

German prosecutors investigate Auschwitz cook

93-year-old former Nazi SS man who claimed he was a cook at the death camp is now being investigated anew.Auschwitz Photo: BloombergProsecutors in Stuttgart are investigating a former Nazi SS man who was allegedly a cook at the Auschwitz death camp in ... [Published Jerusalem Post - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Nazi, BBC British Broadcasting Corp, Conviction, Germany, Hans Lipschis

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 24 2013 - 2 reports

Germany probes former Auschwitz guard (AFP)

BERLIN (AFP) - Germany is investigating an alleged former Auschwitz death camp guard, prosecutors said Wednesday, who according to media reports is listed among the Simon Wiesenthal Center's most-wanted Nazis.Prosecutors in the southwestern city of Stuttgart ... [Published Yahoo!Xtra - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: Germany, John Demjanjuk, Nazi, Hans Lipschis

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

Conscience Film Festival continues at Temple Israel

Temple Israel's Issues of Conscience Film Festival continues at 6 p.m. Tuesday with a screening of "Escape From Sobibor," starring Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer, at 2312 Kanawha Blvd E.Charleston Daily MailAdvertiserTemple Israel's Issues of Conscience ... [Published Charleston Daily Mail - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Sobibor, Rutger Hauer, Israel, Alan Arkin

First reported Apr 14 2013 - Updated Apr 14 2013 - 1 reports

Bulletin board: April 15, 2013

Carbide Oldtimers Club will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in the cafeteria of the Columbia Gas building. Assistant mayor of Charleston Rod Blackstone will speak on the recent session of the state Legislature and other topics. Dinner follows at 6 p.m. and ... [Published Charleston Gazette - Apr 14 2013]

Entities: Sobibor, Daughters of the American Revolution, United Steelworkers Union, Carbide

First reported Mar 03 2013 - Updated Mar 03 2013 - 1 reports

Astonishing new research suggests Holocaust may have killed as many as 20 million

The network of camps and ghettos set up by the Nazis to conduct the Holocaust and persecute millions of victims across Europe was far larger and systematic than previously believed, according to new academic research. Researchers conducting the bleak ... [Published The Independent - Mar 03 2013]

Entities: Holocaust, Nazi, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

First reported Jan 04 2013 - Updated Jan 04 2013 - 1 reports

My Weissmann family at Buchenwald and Sobibor

L-R: Anna, Lili, Heinz, Heinrich 2013 will mark the 75th anniversary of the Anschluss, when Hitler annexed Austria and the Nazis overtook the country, welcomed by the Austrian populace. As a consequence of this move, my “Weissman” (we have lost ... [Published Harry's Place - Jan 04 2013]

Entities: Sobibor, John Demjanjuk, Hermann Michel, Alois Brunner, Vienna

Quotes

"And to them will I give within my house and within my walls a memorial and ... an everlasting name" - which is precisely what the site of remembrance in Jerusalem for the 6 million victims of the Jewish catastrophe in Europe is trying to do

Building at Yad Vashem makes strong moral statement [Published Jewish News of Greater Phoenix - May 23 2013]

On the other hand, at the time of the bloodbath, there was no longer any differentiation between the uninvolved civilian population and partisans. "The arguments of the Stuttgart Director of Public Prosecutions is not very convincing from a historical perspective" the researcher said

German Prosecutors Reject Massacre Case [Published Spiegel Online - May 22 2013]

However, for Schrimm and his colleagues, seeking justice trumps such questions of possible ethical dilemmas. "My personal opinion is that in view of the monstrosity of these crimes, one owes it to the survivors and the victims not to simply say ‘a certain time has passed, it should be swept under the carpet,’" Schrimm told Der Spiegel. MORE

German Prosecutors to Hold Nazi Death-Camp Guards to Account [Published Time - May 15 2013]

However, Cologne-based law professor Cornelius Nestler said that supposedly legal interpretation had existed for decades. "This broad understanding of abetment already existed in Nazi trials back in the 1960s" he said. He added that prosecutors had been "judicially blind" by targeting only concentration camp guards whom they could accuse of individual crim...

'Hurried Action': Germany Criticized for Late Push on War Criminals [Published Spiegel Online - May 13 2013]

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Building at Yad Vashem makes strong moral state... [Published Jewish News of Greater Phoenix - May 23 2013]
German Prosecutors Reject Massacre Case [Published Spiegel Online - May 22 2013]
Crime and Punishment : Torturers Face Trial [Published Counter Currents - May 18 2013]
Former guard in Nazi concentration camp arreste... [Published World Socialist Web Site - May 15 2013]
German Prosecutors to Hold Nazi Death-Camp Guar... [Published Time - May 15 2013]
'Hurried Action': Germany Criticized for Late P... [Published Spiegel Online - May 13 2013]
Se espera nueva ola de jucios contra criminales... [Published Europe Online Magazine - May 09 2013]
Last Effort to Find Nazi War Criminals [Published National Geographic - May 08 2013]
Germany weighs belated justice for Auschwitz gu... [Published Yahoo!Xtra - May 08 2013]
Belated justice for Auschwitz victims [Published Daily News South Africa - May 08 2013]
German Man, 93, Charged With Auschwitz Crimes [Published Jewish Week - May 08 2013]
German weighs Belated justice for Auschwitz guards [Published ENCA - May 08 2013]
Ex-SS man (93) is arrested in Auschwitz guard p... [Published Evening Herald - May 07 2013]
Perpetrators of the Holocaust: Alleged Auschwit... [Published Spiegel Online - May 07 2013]
Germany charges U.S. deportee, 93, with war crimes [Published Globe and Mail - May 07 2013]
Number Four on SWC's "Most Wanted" List Arreste... [Published Simon Wiesenthal Center - May 06 2013]
German Police Arrest Alleged 93-Year-Old Aushwi... [Published Opposing Views - May 06 2013]
Auschwitz concentration camp guard arrested (Vi... [Published Examiner.com - May 06 2013]
German police arrest alleged former Auschwitz g... [Published Sharenet - May 06 2013]
German police arrest former Auschwitz guard, 93... [Published Mail Online UK - May 06 2013]
Germany arrests alleged Auschwitz death camp gu... [Published National Post - Top Stories - May 06 2013]
German authorities arrest man on allegations he... [Published 610 CKTB - May 06 2013]
Germany arrests 'Auschwitz guard' on murder cha... [Published Yahoo!Xtra - May 06 2013]
Crying out, both sides of the wall [Published Daily Dispatch - May 05 2013]
Hollywood conservative unmasked as notorious Ho... [Published Guardian.co.uk - May 03 2013]
Ventnor Holocaust survivor finally finds answer... [Published Press of Atlantic City - May 03 2013]
Gloucestershire students visit Auschwitz... [Published This is Gloucestershire - May 01 2013]
The search for the last Nazi henchmen [Published Deutsche Welle - Apr 29 2013]
German prosecutors investigate Auschwitz cook [Published Jerusalem Post - Apr 25 2013]
HBO documents unlikely saviors of 50 Holocaust ... [Published Houston Chronicle - Apr 25 2013]

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Figures from a dark time XVII [Published normblog - Feb 25 2013] These days you'll often come across people saying that there's too much stuff about the Holocaust. I wonder if they know of Karl Jaspers , who wrote: 'That which has happened is a warning... It must be continually remembered.' 62. Gisella Perl : ...
My Weissmann family at Buchenwald and Sobibor [Published Harry's Place - Jan 04 2013] L-R: Anna, Lili, Heinz, Heinrich 2013 will mark the 75th anniversary of the Anschluss, when Hitler annexed Austria and the Nazis overtook the country, welcomed by the Austrian populace. As a consequence of this move, my “Weissman” (we have lost ...