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Camp Erika

In 1923 Baron Van Palland donated his 18th century castle en 2000 hectare woodland belonging to his estate Eerde, in ...

By Cor Korpel | 10 January, 2015

Concentration camps - Nazi camps

Concentration camp Ravensbrück

Women and Ravensbrück are closely connected but Ravensbrück was more than just a concentration camp for women. In the course ...

By Arnold Palthe | 18 September, 2024

Concentration camps - Concentration camps

Concentration camps

The concentration camps are closely intertwined in the history of the Third Reich. Various political, ideological and racial opponents of ...

By Arnold Palthe | 6 July, 2024

Concentration camps - General

Wannsee Conference

On January 20, 1942, a conference was held in a villa on the Wannsee near Berlin. Subject of discussion was ...

By Arnold Palthe | 15 November, 2022

Holocaust - 1939-1945

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Geheime Staatspolizei

One of the organization most closely associated with Nazi terror is undoubtedly the Geheime Staatspolizei - secret state police - ...

By Arnold Palthe | 31 October, 2022

- Police and SS

Uprising and liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto

When the Nazis began the final evacuation of the Warsaw ghetto on 19 April 1943, they met with fierce resistance. ...

By Ewa Kotz | 7 February, 2021

Holocaust - 1939-1945

Asterdorp, the fourth ghetto of Amsterdam

The situation in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 20th century As in large parts of West-Europe, the population of Amsterdam ...

By Barbara Keus | 19 December, 2020

Holocaust - 1939-1945

Chelmno

Introduction Vernichtungslager [Extermination camp] Chelmno – Kulmhof in German – was part of the systematic killing machine that the Nazis created ...

By Tomas Brogan | 21 November, 2020

Concentration camps - Nazi camps

Jews hiding in Ukranian caves

In 1972, the French speleologist Michel Siffre spent 205 days without interruption in a cave in Texas. With this he ...

By Fernando Lynch | 21 April, 2020

Holocaust - 1939-1945

Jewish hospital in Berlin during the Nazi period

Preface During the Battle of Berlin in 1945, the hospital on the corner of Exerzierstrasse and Schulstrasse in the Wedding district ...

By Fernando Lynch | 16 April, 2020

Holocaust - General

Floating concentration camps in the Bay of Lübeck

During the British bombing of the floating concentration camps Cap Arcona ...

By Fernando Lynch | 11 December, 2019

Concentration camps - Nazi camps

Jews in hiding in Okegem, a forgotten episode

After the British and German troops consecutively passed through Okegem in May 1940 (sub-municipality of Ninove, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium) it seemed ...

By Liza de Groot | 1 March, 2019

Holocaust - 1939-1945