Majdanek in Poland was the first Nazi concentration camp to be liberated, almost a year before the end of World War II. "Shocking evidence of the crimes committed by the Germans was found: ashes, bones, human remains and the bodies of the murdered prisoners, mainly Jews and Poles," Wieslaw Wysok, the deputy director of the Majdanek State Museum, told DW. …
CNN — Relatives of four Dutch children killed by the Nazis have described their sadness after being told their identity tags were found in the ruins of a death camp. He told CNN: “I felt it was my duty to find the living relatives of Annie and David, to tell them what was found in the damned Sobibor land and …
A rendering of the design for a planned expansion at the Holocaust Museum LA by Hagy Belzberg of Belzberg Architects. “We’re giving ourselves plenty of time,” says museum Chief Executive Beth Kean. “It’s this esoteric statement about never forgetting.” A new pavilion will house a boxcar found outside of the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland and will raise the museum’s …
Their faces etched with fear, Jewish children and mothers carrying toddlers walk unknowingly to their horrendous fate. Majdanek was initially intended for forced labour but was converted into an extermination camp in 1942 The saddest of anniversaries: 76 years after Auschwitz was liberated, thousands around the world mark the day in private as Covid-19 prevents the usual large ceremonies By …
