Archive for Holocaust

Minnesota man accused of Nazi war crimes

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 14 June 2013 by delclem

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Michael Kardoc, commander of a SS-led unit “accused of burning villages filled with women and children, lied to American immigration officials to get into the United States and has been living in Minnesota since shortly after World War II, according to evidence uncovered by The Associated Press.” Behind this archetypical story the ugly face of Ukrainian nationalist Nazi collaboration in the Holocaust appears once again. >full text & video (c) HUFFINGTON POST, 2013

>Additional information (c) CANADA.COM 2013

Making history: Gizi Fleischmann (1892-1944)

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 19 May 2013 by delclem

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Strong Central European women making history: the case of an inhabitant of Bratislava/ Pressburg/ Pozsony, Slovakia, who helped saving thousands of Jewish lives in the Holocaust. (My apologies for the bad style/translation.) >full text
(c) wieninternational.at 2013

The Serbian Chetniks & the Jews

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on 15 May 2013 by delclem

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British historian Marco Attila Hoare explores the ugly sides of World War Two & the Holocaust in the Balkans: the hidden agenda of local nationalism/s. >text (c) KOSOVO-NEWS 2013

Denigrating or understanding Irish neutrality?

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on 11 May 2013 by delclem

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Photo by Aidan Crawley / IT: “A German Nazi flag from the second World War at the National Maritime Museum in Dún Laoighaire. “Ireland’s geographic position, small size and strategic interests would dictate that it could not be absolutist about its foreign policy” True or false? Continue reading

“Today’s Jewish Life In Vienna”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 15 March 2013 by delclem

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“A snapshot in time: Vienna Today 2012 documents a ­thriving community.”
>full text (c) VIENNA REVIEW, 2013

The “Banality of Evil” & Philosophy

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on 24 January 2013 by delclem

The new German film by Margarethe Trotta on the German American philosopher Hanna Arendt & the Holocuast organizer Adolf Eichmann is out. And Arendt’s original articles on the “Banality of Evil” are avialable in the New Yorker archive >text (c) OPEN CULTURE / FILM,HISTORY 2013

“Save Walter Benjamin from his fans!”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on 26 September 2012 by delclem


Today it is 72 years ago that Walter Benjamin committed suicide at the French-Spanish border. Stephan Wackwitz dissevers literature from science, holiness from genius in the legends of this literary critic who has served as pillar saint for many.

Text (c) DIE WELT / signandsight.com, 2010

Image: the monument Passages by Israeli artist Dani Karavan in Portbou, Spain, commemorating Walter Benjamin. Photo (c) picture-alliance / akg-images

Factory & concentration camp

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , on 13 August 2012 by delclem

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The former rice-husking facility of Trieste, la Risiera di San Sabba, was the only Nazi concentration camp with a crematorium on Italian soil, 1943-45; aprox. 3,000-5,000 people died there. Today it is a national memorial. Who the hell would park a camper outside? Photos (c) Ruthner, 2012

Raoul Wallenberg 1912-47(?): savior & victim

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on 4 August 2012 by delclem


“A Swedish diplomat saved the lives of many Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust, but his fate since he was abducted by the Soviets in 1945 is unknown.”

A call to remember & research on the occasion of his 100th birthday.
>full text (c) HAARETZ, 2012   >video on Wallenberg (c) YouTube, 2011

A statue of Raoul Wallenberg in Tel Aviv: photo by Tomer Appelbaum
Upper photo: Wallenberg portrait in the Austrian Embassy, Budapest (c) EPA

“Living cemetery”

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , on 5 July 2012 by delclem

“The Jewish cemetery on Seegasse in Vienna, which has been undergoing renovations by the city since 2008, is of importance not only for historical and cultural reasons.” >full article (c) wieninternational.at, 2012

“462 keys, 462 crimes, 462 lives: the “keys against forgetting” are an important memorial.”