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- Article by Kevin Prenger
- Published on November 15th, 2022
Wannsee Conference
On January 20, 1942, a conference was held in a villa on the Wannsee near Berlin. Subject of discussion was the Endlösubg der Judenfrage. Fourteen high ranking officials of the various ministerial departments and SS officers, chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, discussed the plan to exterminate all European Jews.
- Article by Kevin Prenger
- Published on October 31st, 2022
Geheime Staatspolizei
One of the organization most closely associated with Nazi terror is undoubtedly the Geheime Staatspolizei - secret state police - or in short Gestapo. From 1933 until the end of the war, the Gestapo was synonymous with terror, torture and murder and even after the war, memories of the Gestapo still cause great fear among many. The Gestapo grew into a true myth and an idea that even in our time enjoys enormous familiarity. Today, police forces that do not respect human rights are still labeled Gestapo-like organizations.
- Article by Kevin Prenger
- Published on February 7th, 2021
Uprising and liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto
When the Nazis began the final evacuation of the Warsaw ghetto on 19 April 1943, they met with fierce resistance. Jewish men and women had armed themselves and formed a fighting squad. They wanted to take revenge against the Germans who had deported their family members to the Treblinka extermination camp in the previous months. This time they decided that they would not be slaughtered without putting up a fight.
- Article by Paul van de Kar
- Published on December 19th, 2020
Asterdorp, the fourth ghetto of Amsterdam
As in large parts of West-Europe, the population of Amsterdam also grew in the beginning of the 20th century. This increase was reflected in the housing: the small labourers’ houses where large families lived in, were bursting at the seams. These families often lived a poor life. Because of this, there was a huge need for social housing.
- Article by Matthias Ouwejan
- Published on November 21st, 2020
Chelmno
Extermination camp Chelmno – Kulmhof in German – was part of the systematic killing machine that the Nazis created in occupied Polish territories between 1939 and 1945. After the war, there was little evidence of the camp’s existence, and it was a long time before the events that unfolded there became known.
- Article by Kevin Prenger
- Published on April 21st, 2020
Jews hiding in Ukranian caves
In 1972, the French speleologist Michel Siffre spent 205 days without interruption in a cave in Texas. With this he set an official record, because never before would someone have lived for so long underground. Living so long in constant darkness and isolation, without any sense of day or night, requires unimaginable perseverance, both mentally and physically. Nevertheless, several Jewish people in hiding in Ukraine during World War II would have lived continuously underground for much longer, namely 344 days. The American speleologist Chris Nicola discovered their remarkable story of survival.
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