The heroic struggle of Monsignor O'Flaherty and his “Roman Line of Flight” that saved 3925 people persecuted by the Nazis
The Irish priest, from his position in the Vatican, managed to get many men and women…
A bakery, a football tournament and a final massacre: when homeless Ukrainians humiliated Nazi soldiers in occupied kyiv
On Sunday, August 9, 1942, the “match of death” was played in…
News of the Jewish cemetery in Poznań (Poland), another cemetery destroyed by the Nazis
We review the history of the Jewish community of Poznań and evoke in this brief note…
An Austrian mountaineer facing the Holocaust
The novel The Invisible Rope, by the writer Erich Hackl, tells the story of the mountaineer and…
The five Jewish cemeteries in Berlin
Berlin was the German city before World War II that had the…
The Holocaust and German responsibility for its execution
The German writer Thomas Mann stated that “it is impossible to demand from those European nations and…
Franz Kafka and his influence on world literature – Part IV
Keys to his work.
Stepan Andriyovich Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist politician
He belonged to the extreme right of the radical and terrorist wing of the Organization of Nationalists…
Irene Gut Opdyke, the Polish nurse who rebelled against barbarism and the Holocaust
Irene Opdyke was born in Kasinka, Poland (8 km from the German border) in 1922.…
Johtje Vos, a Dutch heroine in terrible times
With the help of her husband Aart, she starred in a great story saving dozens...
Bruno Schulz, recognized as one of the greatest stylists of Polish prose of the 20th century
He was a Polish writer, graphic artist, painter, draftsman and literary critic of Jewish origin.
Klaus Barbie Altmann, “The Butcher of Lyon”
German military man who served as a senior officer in the SS and…
Drancy internment camp
Between August 1941 and August 1944, the Drancy internment camp or…