Sentences with phrase «extermination camps»
"Extermination camps" are places where large numbers of people were systematically killed during the Holocaust, primarily Jews, but also other minority groups. These camps were specifically designed with the intention to kill as efficiently and quickly as possible. Full definition
In a chilling report, Axel Springer CEO MATHIAS DÖPFNER visits Sobibór, Bełżec, and Majdanek — three of the Nazi extermination camps in Poland — to explore how quickly ignorance slides into genocide.
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In 1942, when the mass exterminations began, the camps (the largest complex of extermination camps in the Reich) became the site of the greatest mass murder in the history...
He offered his life in substitution for that of a father of a family who had been condemned to die in the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz.
It was the largest of all German concentration / extermination camps with about 155,000 inmates.
It was much higher number before the second world war, many died in Terezin concentration camp, even before they were sent to extermination camps all over the Europe.
In any case extermination camps were not the issue during the early 1930s, when the Nuremberg Laws were framed.
It falls on the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz - Birkenau extermination camp, known as «the death factory.»
@Chuckles, Perhaps I am mistaken, but my understanding is that, while there were special groups killing Jews, and others, in areas just after an area was invaded, beginning in 1939, the first extermination camp started operations in late 1941, Chelmno, I think.
Technical development is cumulative, but moral progress is more precarious, as the efficiency of the Buchenwald extermination camps reminds us.
He's exactly the same kind of political hack that his dad was, praying with Nixon while slave soldiers died in VietNam and hoping for extermination camps in the USA with Reagan.
There, over 300,000 Jews from the ghetto were dragged to German extermination camps like Treblinka.
These six glass towers represent the six major extermination camp, the menorah candles and the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust.
A visit to Auschwitz - Birkenau, the Nazi's largest extermination camp, is a sobering and moving experience.
Hide and Seek - If Not Now When was photographed around the Sobibór extermination camp, on the border of Poland and Ukraine — a region that both Gersht and his wife have familial ties to.
these numbers were significantly higher before WW2, many died in Terezin concentration camp, even before they were sent to extermination camps all over the Europe.
Wearing a yarmulke, Bush placed a red - white - and - blue wreath on a stone slab that covers ashes of Holocaust victims taken from six extermination camps.
(CNN)- Leon Gersten could not bear to watch «Schindler's List,» the movie about Czech industrialist Oskar Schindler who saved 1,200 Jews from Nazi extermination camps.
Destination: Flossenburg, an extermination camp in the Bavarian forest.
By terror — culminating in the concentration and extermination camps — the people are made incommunicado — atomized — afraid to bare their thoughts to their closest friends.
Against all the odds, Veil survived the extermination camp at Auschwitz - Birkenau and Bergen - Belsen.
The holocaust took place to some extent within Germany, and German Jews / gypsies / homosexuals were taken to extermination camps.
She watched trainloads of children being carted off to extermination camps.
Shocked out of his state of luxurious self - indulgence, and finally realising that by colluding with the Nazis he has played a part in the subjugation of the Jews, Schindler enlists the aid of Stern to employ as many of them from Goeth's camp as he can in order to save them from the extermination camps.
Smoke billows in the air from the crematoriums at an extermination camp.
While Bruno is busy secretly bringing gifts of games and food, his father becomes further entrenched with his official duties as the commander in charge of the extermination camp.
The world's attention focused on the Auschwitz - Birkenau State Museum on January 27, 2015, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camps.
As for the Jews, instead of the extermination camps of history, Saville imagines that millions are in the process of being forcibly «resettled» on the island of Madagaskar off the African coast, most slated for eventual extermination.
Historical facts are very significantly altered; Dachau was undoubtedly a horrible place, but it was NOT an extermination camp with gas chambers and ovens.
That extermination camp gets 14.2 million dollars per year.
The chemical compound that makes up this pigment happens to be related to the Prussic acid in Zyklon B, the poisonous product deployed at some of the Nazi concentration and extermination camps.
If you consider that extermination camps were very real in WW II and various post-war atrocities were almost as bad, there has to be something in human nature that makes it possible.
The book honours the memory of his father, brother and two uncles who were killed in an extermination camp during the Second World War.