Ten years after the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, filmmaker Alain Resnais documented the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz. Night and Fog is one of the first cinematic reflections on the horrors of the Holocaust, and also one of the most important. It is still available from the Criterion Collection Night and Fog contains disturbing images of the Holocaust. Posted in remembrance of... read full post picked by buddha 5 months ago

A Belgian writer has admitted that she made up her best-selling "memoir" depicting how, as a Jewish child, she lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust, her lawyers said Friday. picked by dollyllama 6 months ago

A group representing thousands of children of Holocaust survivors filed a class-action lawsuit against the German government Monday, demanding that Germany pay for their psychiatric care. picked by DoggySpew 1 year ago

Rep. Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in Congress, has died, his spokeswoman said Monday. picked by dollyllama 7 months ago

Primo Michele Levi (July 31, 1919 – April 11, 1987) was a Jewish Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor and author of memoirs, short stories, poems, and novels. He is best known for his work on the Holocaust, and in particular his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in Auschwitz, the infamous death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. If This Is a Man (published in the United States as Survi... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 10 months ago

Almost nothing Misha Defonseca wrote about herself or her horrific childhood during the Holocaust was true.

Update to This story with more details. picked by caboose09 6 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 4 months ago

Family cries and moans, whining that their father should get special treatment and be buried at Arlington Cemetery (even though he doesn't qualify) just because he is a Holocaust Survivor. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah has declared to his supporters that "Jews invented the legend of the Holocaust." Hamas's official Web site labels the Nazi effort to exterminate Jews "an alleged and invented story with no basis."

However they are ignoring their own history of the Holocaust, including the Arab heroes who helped save Jewish lives. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has told Israeli MPs that her countrymen are 'filled with shame' over the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were killed. picked by ConeOfSilence 5 months ago

The International Tracing Service, an arm of the Red Cross, is about to release its archive of Holocaust documents. The enormous archive, containing ledgers, letters, and envelopes filled with personal effects, has been kept closed due to concerns about victims' privacy. picked by hypnotode 2 years ago

About 70 people gathered at Sydney's Chevra Kadisha in Woollahra to farewell Katherine Schweitzer - the 81-year-old Holocaust survivor whose body was found dumped in a wheelie bin inside her apartment block last week. picked by teaya21 2 years ago

Some horrific pictures showing the true Evil that man is capable of. picked by 2manyusernames 8 months ago

A photo album created by an SS officer stationed at Auschwitz has been donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The unique album shows the life and activities of officers at the camp. Compare those officers to the prisoners. picked by 2manyusernames 11 months ago

"We were told that if we pulled out, there would be a slaughter in Vietnam... We also were told that the countries next door would start toppling into communism. None of that happened."

None of this happened? picked by jameseum 2 years ago

A judge decided the guy needed probation. picked by HarmsyMcTwelve 2 years ago

Striking yet horribly sad photos. picked by hypnotode 1 year ago

One reason is the sad and reprehensible fact that many Muslims are never taught what happened. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

This is a follow-up to picked by harmsc12 2 years ago

Survivors and victims' families offered cash for Nazi looting and war losses. picked by MandolinOrange 6 months ago