Devil's Punchbowl refugee camp for freed slaves during Civil War is misdescribed as 'concentration camp'
The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...
My mother's love endured in the face of pure evil
Holocaust survivor Renee Salt pays tribute to her mama Sala, the one constant in her young life as they were shunted from ...
In Cities’ Rush to Clear Homeless Camps, People Have Been Crushed to Death
Atlanta’s mayor began a drive to clear homeless encampments. But when heavy equipment came to raze one, nobody noticed that ...
New World War 2 film tells incredible true story of first Nazi death camp escape
New World War 2 film tells the incredible previously untold true story of the first Nazi death camp escape to alert the world ...
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‘Emotional challenge’ for both Jewish, German actors in new film ‘World Will Tremble’
There were days I’d say ‘cut,’ and it was quiet,” Lior Geller, who wrote and directed the movie, told JNS.The post ‘Emotional challenge’ for both Jewish, German actors in new ...
‘People must know what happened here’: the challenge of recreating the Nazi camp Chelmno on film
The World Will Tremble dramatises the tragic story of two men who escaped the first death camp of the Nazi regime ...
The Advocate13d
Jessie Hoffman's final moments inside Louisiana's execution chamber at Angola
The source of the chanting soon became apparent: The condemned man’s spiritual adviser, dressed in a black robe, appeared ...
Jewish Journal15d
Tiny Slivers of Freedom: Watching the First Jews to Escape the Holocaust
The escape story, then, had a second layer: the escapees wanted the story itself to escape the Chelmno death camp and ring alarm bells. As much as they craved personal freedom, they craved even ...
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Greece Marks Departure of First Death Train to Auschwitz for Thessaloniki Jews
Thessaloniki had a population of more than 50,000 Jews before World War II — some 46,000 of whom were deported and killed at German Nazi death camps. As part of the initiative of the Jewish Community ...
‘The World Will Tremble’ Filmmaker Used ‘Investigative Screenwriting’ to Tell Holocaust Story
Lior Geller's film chronicles prisoners who escape the first Nazi death camp to provide the first eyewitness account of the ...