Charles T. Payne was 20 years old when he helped liberate Ohrdruf, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. He is the "Uncle Charlie" that Obama told a group of veterans about. The ones he mistakenly said Auschwitz. Here he talks about that moment in his life. picked by 2manyusernames 4 months ago

Hospital asks judges for permission to take Orthodox Jewish boy — who all doctors have declared completely brain-dead (not vegetative, dead) — off the breathing machine, against his family's wishes. picked by lynxears 1 week ago

Eight former staff members of a Florida juvenile boot camp have been charged with manslaughter in the death of a 14-year-old boy whose beating by guards was captured on videotape picked by teaya21 2 years ago

Eight identical buildings stretching out along 5km of beach front and capable of hosting 20,000 people at a time, Prora was the official holiday resort of the Nazi Party.
Here is the location on Google Maps and here's another article about the place. Yet another one with pictures here picked by pocksucket 1 year ago

A parent has been arrested for allegedly showing teenagers pornography, then offering one of them alcohol and cigarettes at a Boy Scout camp in Hopkinton. picked by bingo 4 months ago

A 13-foot totem pole fell over and struck a boy on the first day of Boy Scout camp, killing the 9-year-old, state police said Monday. picked by bevissimo 1 year ago

Twinky-looking camp counselors give classes in grenade throwing, automatic weapon handling and land mine dodging. picked by beckinacea 1 year ago

Larry Blumberg is looking for a few good Jews to move to his corner of the Bible Belt. picked by Nateebiinature 2 months ago

"It entered a camp and took a goat among 200 sleeping kids"

This happened up in the mountains where I live... thought I would share. picked by Hoosker 1 year ago

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - "In the beginning, there was a boy, a girl and an apple."

I read this story years ago when I was a little girl in one of those "Chicken Soup for the Soul" books-- it made me cry, and I read it over and over.
If you have never read this, check it out-- it will bring tears to your eyes, I promise you. picked by julea 1 month ago

I never understood how anyone could deny the Holocaust. The following debate has me even more stupefied. picked by kikcolon 2 years ago

Striking yet horribly sad photos. picked by hypnotode 2 years ago

Almost all these Polish Jews, rich and poor alike, would be dead within a few years, massacred in the Nazi camps or ghettoes or consumed by the war. One woman in the beach pyramid, a caption says, perished in the Soviet Union, searching for her husband as they fled the Nazis picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

A newly opened exhibition in Berlin on the role the German state railways played in deportation of Jews to death camps during World War II.

Part of the worlds humans dreadful past and still it happens! picked by topofall 10 months ago

This is almost too obscene to post. According to this piece of garbage "The satanic Jews thought up the evil plot[the Holocaust] so that they could get rid of their disabled and handicapped who wouldn't be a burden upon the future state of Israel.

Oh and this aired on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. picked by 2manyusernames 7 months ago

"We ask you to respect us and our Judaism just as we respect your religion," Michel said in a statement released ahead of the news conference. "We ask you to leave our six million Jews, all victims of the Holocaust, alone, they suffered enough." picked by muppet 1 week ago

60 Holocaust survivors were reunited with the families that hid them in the during World War II.
This story brings a happy and a sad tear to my eye. picked by tundramonkey 2 years ago

Orthodox Jews who want to use a strand of fishing line several miles long to create a symbolic religious enclosure are getting entangled in a dispute with beachfront residents and California environmentalists, who fear the string will snag birds and spoil the ocean view. picked by tlovesd 2 years ago

The Grim Reaper as a cross-dresser? In South America, Saint Death (Santa Muerte) will visit you one day - or so it is believed - and it will come in female form dressed up to the nines. Take a look at the strange tradition of Saint Death. A pagan mix of the supernatural and black magic or a Catholic saint worthy of veneration? picked by AutumnLotus 2 days ago

Choosing a Camping Stove - Good food has the power to make breathtaking sunsets more beautiful, rainy days less of a drag and good friends even more fun to be around. Learn how to choose the right camping stove for your family. picked by myrthachang 2 years ago