13.05.2013 (The Washington Post, by Menachem Wecker) -- Sometimes mundane, seemingly innocuous details can best impress the enormity of a tragedy on those who didn’t experience it.
Holocaust Educational Trust gets £500,00 for Auschwitz visits
(2013) 02.05.2013 (BBC News) -- More than £500,000 is to be awarded to a scheme which gives schoolchildren the chance to visit the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Reports: 'Derrick' Actor an SS Member During War
(2013) 27.04.2013 (ABCnews.com, written by Frank Jordans for AP) -- Reports that the late German actor Horst Tappert, best known for his longtime role as dapper TV sleuth Stefan Derrick, served in a feared Nazi SS unit prompted at least one European broadcaster to announce Saturday that it would drop the show's reruns from its schedule.
Former Auschwitz Nazi guard Hans Lipschis found in Germany
(2013) 25.04.2013 (BBC) -- Prosecutors in the German city of Stuttgart have confirmed they are investigating a former Nazi SS man for crimes at the Auschwitz death camp.
Expert: Holocaust Camps are Falling Apart. Evidence of Nazi atrocities is falling apart due to neglect, warns expert in Holocaust denial.
(2013) 07.04.2013 (Israel National News, by Maayana Miskin) -- Florence Eizenberg, who is finishing a doctorate on the topic of Holocaust denial, said that the camps, which provide valuable testimony to Nazi war crimes, are in poor condition.
Kokoschka Work Sold in Nazi Era Returns to Dealer’s Heir
(2013) 09.04.2013 (Bloomberg, by Catherine Hickley) -- A German government panel said a museum in Cologne should return a portrait by Oskar Kokoschka valued at 3 million euros ($3.9 million) to the heirs of Alfred Flechtheim, a Jewish art dealer persecuted by the Nazis.
6 survivors to represent 6 million at Holocaust ceremony
(2013) 05.04.2013 (ynetnews.com, written by Omri Efraim) -- They endured the Holocaust and lived to tell of its atrocities. They lost family members, innocence and years of their lives. These brave souls will light torches on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Holocaust survivors slated to light memorial torches
(2013) 05.04.2013 (The Jerusalem Post, written by Sam Sokol) -- Yad Vashem ceremony to feature six survivors to memorialize lost Jews on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Yad Vashem set to gather names of 6 m. Jews
(2013) 05.04.2013 (The Jerusalem Post, written by Sam Sokol) -- Chief archivist aims to collect names of 6 m. Jews perished in the Holocaust; former USSR countries grant access to researchers.
HBO Documentary '50 Children: The Rescue Mission Of Mr. And Mrs. Kraus' Depicts Unlikely Saviors Of 50 Holocaust Children
(2013) 04.04.2013 (Huffington Post, RNS, written by Lauren Markoe) -- Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus lived a comfortable life in 1930s Philadelphia, where he made a good living as a lawyer, and she kept a stylish house. They were secular Jews who sent their children to a Quaker school, and unlikely candidates for the mission they assigned themselves. Gilbert revealed the plan to his wife as he was shaving in the bathroom, so their young son and daughter would not hear. He wanted to go to Vienna and save 50 Jewish children from the Nazis.
