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Prof. Thomas Buergenthal was one of the most prominent lawyers specializing in human rights and international law. He ta...
#Biografia
“Good night and good luck” was one of the most popular phrases uttered by E. Murrow from his days as a war correspondent...
The Witch of Buchenwald – that’s what the prisoners called Ilse Koch. She dressed in a provocative manner to taunt the m...
Those who knew Alice Herz-Sommer often recalled her love for music and her incorrigible optimism. Years later, describin...
Viktor Ullmann came from an assimilated Jewish family that converted to Catholicism. He came from Cieszyn in Silesia. He...
Štěpán Trochta was a Salesian who believed that great emphasis should be placed on working with youth and caring for the...
When war broke out, Ostrowski fought in the ranks of the Polish Army. On September 18, 1939, he was wounded during a cla...
Richard Dimbleby was one of the most famous British reporters and radio journalists of the 20th century and the BBC’s fi...
It seems that thanks to the diary she wrote, the whole world knows the story of Anne Frank. It is one of the most recogn...
Josef Krame joined the NSDAP at age 25, and a year later he was a member of the SS. He grew up in Munich, in a Catholic ...
Stefan Krukowski was a Pole who was caught in a roundup on a Warsaw street. He was sent to a harsh prison, where he was ...
Albert Kosiek was born into a Polish immigrant family in Chicago, United States. In November 1942, he joined the 11th Ar...
Stanisław Grzesiuk is known in Poland as an author and singer, popularizing folklore and Warsaw dialect. He came from a ...
Franz Ziereis was a war criminal, he had been a member of the SS since 1936. He joined the SS-Totenkopfverbände, the cor...
Hermine Brausteiner or “Mare” from Majdanek, as concentration camp inmates called her, testified that she snatched child...
“Dédée” – “little mother” – was one of Andrée de Jongh’s nicknames. Those who knew her from the Résistance, in turn, cal...
Karl Gebhardt was a veteran of World War I. In the interwar period, he gained fame in the field of orthopedic surgery. H...
Janusz Korczak was a Polish-Jewish medic, educator and writer who was dedicated to the upbringing of children and workin...
Karolina Lanckorońska was born at the end of the 19th century in Buchberg (now Austria). Her life was accompanied by art...
Jan Karski was a member of the Polish Underground State, and a witness of the Holocaust. On the orders of his commanders...
Franz Reichleitner was called “Idiot” by the inmates of the Nazi camp at Sobibór. However, they did not call him that be...
Johan Niemann died during a prisoner revolt at Sobibor concentration camp. He spent a third of his short life as a part ...
He was one of the prisoners in the Sobibór concentration camp, which, like Treblinka and Bełżec, was a site of mass exte...
Born in Berdyczow (now Ukraine), his actual name was Iosif Solomonovich Grossman, he came from a Jewish family. Although...
