US EditionGermany marks liberation of Bergen-Belsen Nazi camp
- Germany marked the 80th anniversary of the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp liberation with a commemorative event in Lower Saxony.
- This observance follows growing concerns about Holocaust remembrance amid rising support for the far-right AfD party, which challenges traditional remembrance customs.
- Over 50,000 people died at Bergen-Belsen, including Jews, prisoners of war, homosexuals, and political opponents, and Anne Frank also died there during World War II.
- The UK’s Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner cautioned against the increasing distortion of the Holocaust, describing this form of historical revisionism as both dangerous and rooted in ignorance.
- Holocaust survivors urged vigilance against hatred, stressing the collective duty to remember and combat anti-Semitism and racism in all forms going forward.
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How to remember the "lost transport" of Tröbitz
80 years ago, a train of more than 2,000 Jewish prisoners from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Tröbitz in southern Brandenburg was stranded. There, the survivors found help. They still shape the place today. By Johanna Sagmeister.
"I will have to remember later this horrific camp coldly, gravely, without hatred, but with lucidity..."
80 years ago, the Ravensbrück camp was liberated by the International Red Cross and then by units of the Red Army. 2,250 women from Belgium passed through this concentration camp, all cited in what constitutes a documentary sum. To remember them, his author, historian Claire Pahaut, was questioned. ...
Antisemitism Data Illustrates the New Normal - Israel Unwired
Some people like to kick the Jews at the very moment when they are down, while others take a more long-term view. (April 25, 2025 / JNS) As we mark the 80th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany and the liberation of the concentration camps, that terrible chapter of history no longer seems so distant. While there are only 15.7 million Jews among a global population of more than 8 billion—still less than the nearly 17 million who we…
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