How Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest Holocaust witness, survived the horrific ordeal of Theresienstadt (Terezín) with music. >article (c) open culture 2013
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Surviving on Music
Posted in Uncategorized with tags concentration camp, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Holocaust, survivors, Terezín, testimony, Theresienstadt on 1 December 2013 by delclemWW2 genocides in Croatia/Bosnia
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Bosnia-Herzegovina, concentration camp, Croatia, genocide, Holocaust, Jasenovac, Serbia, Ustasha, yugoslavia on 29 November 2013 by delclem“From August 1941 to April 1945, hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, and Romas, as well as anti-fascists of many nationalities, were murdered at the death camp known as Jasenovac.” A documentary with English subtitles. (Later, unfortunately, the camp of Jasenovac would me used to legitimize and/or relativize Serbian war crimes in the Yugoslav Succession Wars of the 1990s.)
Mauthausen: Life in the Details
Posted in Uncategorized with tags Austria, concentration camp, exhibition, Holocaust, Mauthausen, National Socialism, review on 21 July 2013 by delclem
“A bicycle from Poland. Pieces of a Messerschmitt fighter plane from U.S. Air Force archives in Alabama. Camp log books from Caen. An embroidered handkerchief, tossed out a prison window by a woman on her way to execution for helping Allied paratroopers. A rusty watchtower searchlight, unearthed just last year. Wedding rings, watches & photos confiscated upon arrival here 1938-45.
On 5 May, two new permanent exhibitions were opened at Austria’s concentration camp memorial at Mauthausen along with a Room of Names – all part of an ongoing redesign scheduled for completion in 2018.”>full text (c) THE VIENNA REVIEW, 2013
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