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Director Angelina Jolie's Unbroken is based on Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 non-fiction account of US Olympic athlete Louie Zamperini's harrowing experience in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II.

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Fikret Abdic was recently elected mayor of the western Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa, having served time for setting up prison camps during the war that housed 5,000 prisoners, more than 300 of whom were killed.

Last week, Spicer falsely claimed Hitler did not use chemical weapons during World War II and referred to concentration camps as «concentration centers.»

Captured during the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944, Vonnegut was confined in a German prisoner - of - war camp near the city during the February 1945 aerial campaign.

Captured during the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944, Vonnegut was confined in a German prisoner of war camp near the city during the February 1945 aerial campaign.

In 2002, then President Bush sanctioned the establishment of the camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in order to house prisoners captured during U.S. military operations in the War on Terror.

February 12, 2009 — Makes a statement denouncing anti-Semitism a month after a scandal involving a bishop denying the death toll of Jews killed in concentration camps during World War II.

If you knew jews were about to be killed in a concentration camp during the war, would you not feel morally obligated to stop it if you could?

He sees how they have made tweaks to the system, established safeguards and how entries are flagged for review, for example, if deaths were during World War II and in places bearing names of Nazi death camps like Auschwitz or Treblinka.

During the American civil war she walked into the army camps of both sides to denounce the abuse of black girls as «camp followers».

Corrie ten Boom (1892 - 1983), whose home in Haarlem was a sanctuary and hiding place for Jews during the Second World War and who herself survived imprisonment in Ravensbruck concentration camp, told how she lied to save Jews from the Nazi death camps.

Imagine writing a letter to Jewish people in a concentration camp during the second world war, and you went on to explain what a Nazi was, and who Hitler was.

Hence, many of the Arabs who were driven out or fled during and after the several wars, and who are now housed in camps on the West Bank or in Lebanon or who live in Gaza or Jordan, have no more right to the land than do the Jews who came there from Europe, America or the Arab countries.

There was Auschwitz, a German concentration camp where millions of Jews were killed during World War II.

Known as «Trenchtown» because this city was known during World War II where we had the Japanese Interment camps located after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Mark P. Naughton Sr., 81, of Arlington Heights, was a retired salesman who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and escaped a German prison camp during World War II.

A native of Kopyczynce, Poland, Mr. Ostapiuk was taken with his family to a Siberian labor camp as a child, where he was held until the Soviet Union joined the Allied forces during World War II.

Elaborating on the extensive killing of Bosnian Muslims during the Second World War, he did not remember the great numbers of Serbs slaughtered in concentration camps, nor the number of Muslims who joined Croat forces and participated in atrocities.

During World War II, Fred Korematsu refused to comply with Civilian Exclusion Order 34, based on the federal Executive Order 9066, which imposed strict curfew regulations and resulted in the forcible removal of 120,000 Japanese Americans from their communities to be incarcerated indefinitely in American concentration camps.

Then during World War II, Fort Ontario became a refugee camp for European Jews and in 1953, it opened as a state historic site.

This video compared living in Rockland County to life in a concentration camp during World War II.

Pamela Grim, an American emergency physician, volunteered her services at a Macedonian refugee camp during the thick of the war.

During the Second World War, Sturdy Colls knew, more than 900,000 Jewish deportees had been killed at the Treblinka death camp, an unassuming site about the size of a suburban shopping mall.

You might not know this, but during World War II some concentration camp victims were allowed to bring one thing from home with them.

Historically, during 20th century, women in Russia always outnumbered men, with World War 2 that took lives of 20 million Soviet people, and other 20 million people that died in Stalin's concentration camps.

Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as an Auschwitz concentration camp inmate during World War II, and Search Names, name meanings, etymology and history of names, surnames, cities and more.

Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as an Auschwitz concentration camp inmate during World War II, and

Beal continued appearing in films during the war years while serving in Special Services as actor and director of Army Air Force camp shows and training films.

During the war, Cochran directed Army camp shows.

In fact, Oskar Schindler (Neeson, Darkman) was an opportunist who saw the ability to make lots of money with the cheapest of labor during the war period, by taking Jews out of the German camps and employing them in his factory.

Recounting the extraordinary life story of Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell, «Starred Up»)-- who ran for America in the 1936 Olympics, survived a plane crash during World War II, stayed afloat for 75 days on a life raft before forced internment in a series of Japanese POW camps — Jolie and company seem to be digging into the Spielberg playbook: The movie offers up sun - dappled nostalgia for Depression - era Southern California, harrowing wartime sequences, and even a shark attack, but it serves them all up with maximum efficiency.

Luckily, Holland's film focusses on a rather unusual true story from Poland during the atrocities of the Second World War rather than the well - told tales of the concentration camps (as obviously important and powerful as they are).

Two of his most famous films are 1993's «Schindler's List,» about an industrialist who worked to save Jews from World War II concentration camps, and «Saving Private Ryan,» about American soldiers working to find a private during World War II so he can be sent home.

Forman was born in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) in 1932; during World War II, his parents were taken by the Nazis and were murdered in concentration camps.

Based on his best - selling memoir, The Railway Man tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War war at a Japanese labour camp during World War War II.

During this recent exclusive interview with Collider, the undeniably charming James Badge Dale (who plays the Lone Ranger's older brother, Texas Ranger Dan Reid) talked about how cool it is to be in three of the biggest blockbusters of the summer (Iron Man 3, World War Z and The Lone Ranger), how The Lone Ranger was the most physically demanding, finding a treehouse out in Canyon de Chelly where he could grab a nap between takes, the process of finding the perfect cowboy hat for his character, working with a horse that was scared of gunfire, and the experience of cowboy boot camp.

The film goes back - and - forth from the camp to their days before the war, as director Andrei Konachalovsky collapses their identities, while offering a new perspective on the Holocaust and the morally complex choices people must make during the darkest of moments.

(In English, Mandarin and Japanese with subtitles) In the Land of Blood and Honey (R for sexuality, nudity, violence, rape, ethnic cleansing and profanity) Angelina Jolie directed this romance drama set during the War in Bosnia and revolving around a Serbian soldier (Goran Kostic) who reencounters a Muslim ex-girlfriend (Zana Marjanovic) now being held captive in a POW camp.

Mohawk (Blu - ray) Details: 2017, Dark Sky Films Rated: Not rated The lowdown: A historical drama set during the War of 1812 finds a young female Mohawk pursued by a band of renegades thirsting for revenge after members of her tribe set fire to an American soldiers» camp.

«The Boy in Striped Pajamas»: Asa Butterfield plays a 9 - year - old German boy, Bruno, who makes friends during World War II with a Jewish boy in a nearby concentration camp.

One Day You'll Understand (Unrated) Holocuast docudrama, based on Jerome Clement's autobiographical novel, set in the Eighties, recounting a Frenchman's (Hippolyte Girardot) obsession with determining what happened to his Jewish grandparents who perished in a concentration camp during World War II.

Despite reports that a new trailer for The Force Awakens wouldn't be seeing the light of the day until we get a lot closer to the movie's December release date, there was still some hope that the plucky Star Wars fans who camped out outside of Comic - Con's Hall H this weekend might get a peek of something new during the panel for J.J. Abrams» upcoming film.

«Phoenix» Synopsis: Nelly Lenz survives a concentration camp during World War Two, and returns home to Berlin and her husband, only to begin to hear rumors that he was the one who denounced her to the Nazis.

He's an interesting guy, he seems to be equating being closeted with his growing up in an internment camp during World War II and with racial segregation.

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS Director: Matthew Vaughn (Kick - Ass) Starring: James McAvoy (Atonement), Michael Fassbender (Jane Eyre), Kevin Bacon (Footloose), Jennifer Lawrence (Winter's Bone), Nicholas Hoult (A Single Man) During World War II, Erik Lensherr (Fassbender) is forced to be separated from his mother outside the gates of a concentration camp.

During that war, Valley Forge in Pennsylvania was one of the main camps for America's soldiers.

She previously worked at the refugee camps during Libya's civil war, at Bureau de Cooperation Tunisie - Denmark on youth development projects in Tunis, and at the Carter Center monitoring 2012 Egyptian Presidential Elections, in Cairo.

Voice Vision: Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories This University of Michigan site uses Adobe Acrobat and RealPlayer technologies to present about a dozen firsthand accounts of life in the concentration camps during the Second World War.

Also, as the first openly gay person of color in Congress and someone from a family who experienced the ugly face of systemic racism when his grandparents and parents were removed from their respective homes and sent to Japanese American Internment camps during World War II, Takano has a consistently progressive social justice ethic that is evident in his strong voting record in support of immigrants, low - income families, affordable housing, veterans, and workers.

In The Plum Tree, this is the church were Christine attempts to expose an SS camp guard during the first service after the war was over.