concentration-camp

On April 15, in Gardelegen, in middle Germany, GIs found the remains of more than a thousand concentration-camp prisoners.

Death Along the Way Timothy Snyder 2011

They are as goners as those who went and are gone, all non-surviving the same except for individual places in the sequence ... like concentration-camp inmates elatedly counting the day's droppings and corpses as if tomorrow isn't their turn next.

Shock and awe (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

In 1988, he was even convicted in Israel of being "Ivan the Terrible," a notorious concentration-camp guard at Treblinka.

Germany Convicts Nazi-Camp Guard of Aiding Murder Mary M. Lane 2011

In "The Death Marches," Mr. Blatman provides the most complete description ever written of a crime of this kind: the 1,016 evacuated concentration-camp prisoners killed in Gardelegen.

Death Along the Way Timothy Snyder 2011

Early on, Nazis allowed concentration-camp residents to send letters—stamped with their numbers.

Voice of the East, Heard From the West Vibhuti Patel 2011

In one particularly chilling scene in Art Spiegelman's graphic novel "Maus," a concentration-camp survivor talks about how, 50 years after the Holocaust, humanity seems to be bent on making the same mistakes all over again; maybe, he muses, it will take another, bigger tragedy to make us learn our lesson.

Weill's 'Lost' is Found Will Friedwald 2011

In his book "Remembering Survival" 2010, the historian Christopher Browning noted how some Holocaust survivors—possibly influenced by postwar books, articles and documentary films—convinced themselves that they had personally experienced events such as the concentration-camp selection process administered by the notorious Josef Mengele, even though records proved they had not.

The Things They Buried James D. Hornfischer 2011

In his book "Remembering Survival" 2010, the historian Christopher Browning noted how some Holocaust survivors—possibly influenced by postwar books, articles and documentary films—convinced themselves that they had personally experienced events such as the concentration-camp selection process administered by the notorious Josef Mengele, even though records proved they had not.

The Things They Buried James D. Hornfischer 2011

There is virtually nothing on the vast Soviet concentration-camp system, unless one counts a complaint that "Marx was typecast as the inspirer of terror and gulag, and communists as essentially defenders of, if not participators in, terror and the KGB."

How a True Believer Keeps the Faith Michael Moynihan 2011

The series includes intriguing rarities, such as "Jean's Return" ("Le retour de Jean"), Clouzot's harrowing contribution to the omnibus film "Return to Life" ("Retour à la vie," 1949), in which a concentration-camp survivor hides, interrogates and tortures a Nazi war criminal.

A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery Kristin M. Jones 2011