In 1939, Sir David Attenborough’s family took in two Jewish refugee sisters, Irene and Helga Bejach, who fled Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport and lived with them in Leicester for seven years. During their seven years with the Attenboroughs, Irene and Helga lived in Leicester alongside David, his brothers Richard and John, and their parents,Continue reading “The Attenboroughs: Quiet Heroism That Saved Lives”
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Nazi Gestures Were Made At Auschwitz And Bergen-Belsen
In two different cases, German high school students incited uproar by singing a nationalist song at Bergen-Belsen and making neo-Nazi gestures at Auschwitz. Students from a school in the western city of Bielefeld, aged 14 and 15, were heard singing ‘Germany for the Germans, foreigners out’ at the Bergen-Belsen memorial. The chant is prevalent with neo-Nazis.Continue reading “Nazi Gestures Were Made At Auschwitz And Bergen-Belsen”
Tattooist Lali Sokolov’s Love-At-First-Sight Romance With Fellow Prisoner Gita After He Marked Her Camp Number On Her Arm
It was a love story that began most horrifyingly. Lali Sokolov encountered Gita Fuhrmannova—the woman who would become his wife—when she stood before him emaciated and robbed of her dignity at the Auschwitz death camp. Amidst the evil of the Nazi killing machine, Lali—himself a Jew who had been put to work under threat ofContinue reading “Tattooist Lali Sokolov’s Love-At-First-Sight Romance With Fellow Prisoner Gita After He Marked Her Camp Number On Her Arm”
