Samuel Willenberg, the last known living survivor of the notorious Nazi extermination camp Treblinka is nearing the end of a life’s mission to tell of the horrors that he saw there. Now 92, his ...
Excerpts of a musical based on the life of Janusz Korczak to be held at Treblinka will not take place as scheduled. In light of a protest by Jan Karski Association, the regional governor withheld ...
TREBLINKA, POLAND (WGHP) — Tucked away deep in a forest of mature pine trees sits an open field covered in tall grass, wildflowers and large rocks. There’s a stillness in the field and a haunting ...
The death of 93-year-old Samuel Willenberg marks the passing of the last known survivor of the daring revolt at Treblinka, the notorious death camp in occupied Poland that is perhaps the most vivid ...
How has the world come to focus on the Holocaust and why has it invariably done so in the heat of controversy, scandal, and polemics about the past?These questions are at the heart of this unique ...
West German authorities have arrested Kurt Franz, former commander of the Treblinka death camp and two of the ex-Nazi’s assistants, on evidence given here by 30 former Treblinka inmates, according to ...
A few months earlier, in Poland’s capital, in an event that would become known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, “for almost 30 days, a starving, ill-equipped, almost completely untrained group of Jews” ...