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PHOTO: Auschwitz Concentration Camp Then and Now

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|Date: April 11, 2016
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PHOTO: Auschwitz Concentration Camp Then and Now

The notorious Auschwitz has become symbolic of the evils of the Holocaust. More than one million people d ...

The notorious Auschwitz has become symbolic of the evils of the Holocaust. More than one million people died in its confines during the period from September 1940 to January 1945. The site has been tu ...

April 11, 2016
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1943: Holocaust in Ukraine

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|Date: November 19, 2015
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1943: Holocaust in Ukraine

On this day the Germans killed about 6,000 Jews during the liquidation of the Janowska concentration camp ...

On this day the Germans killed about 6,000 Jews during the liquidation of the Janowska concentration camp in Ukraine. This happened after a failed uprising in the camp, which occurred after Germans fo ...

November 19, 2015
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1942: Anne Frank Begins Writing her Diary

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1942: Anne Frank Begins Writing her Diary

On this day Anne Frank wrote first sentences in her diary, which made her historically famous. She was gi ...

On this day Anne Frank wrote first sentences in her diary, which made her historically famous. She was given a diary precisely on this day, as a gift from her father for her 13th birthday. On that dat ...

June 12, 2015
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1985: Exhumation of Nazi Josef Mengele’s Corpse

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1985: Exhumation of Nazi Josef Mengele’s Corpse

On this day the corpse of the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, also referred to as the “Angel of Death” or “Whi ...

On this day the corpse of the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele, also referred to as the “Angel of Death” or “White Angel”, was exhumed in Brazil. Mengele was one of the most wanted Nazi criminals due to his ...

June 06, 2015
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1944: Yugoslav Partisans Kill SS-Sturmbannführer Christian Wirth

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1944: Yugoslav Partisans Kill SS-Sturmbannführer Christian Wirth

Christian Wirth held the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer, and participated in Nazi projects – the Aktion T4 pr ...

Christian Wirth held the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer, and participated in Nazi projects – the Aktion T4 program and Operation Reinhard (German: Aktion Reinhard). They included the most terrible mass c ...

May 26, 2015
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