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Gas chamber discovery at Sobibor spurs calls to review museum project
Jewish Journal
February 3, 2015
After he uncovered the path that two of his uncles followed to the gas chambers at Sobibor, Yoram Haimi thought the complex he had worked years to unearth would be preserved for posterity.
Dig uncovers gas chambers at Sobibor death camp
Jewish Journal
September 17, 2014
An archaeological dig at Sobibor has uncovered the Nazi death camp’s gas chambers.\n
A Turkish Muslim perspective on Yom HaShoah
Jewish Journal
April 8, 2013
When people of reason and conscience look back on the subject of Shoah (otherwise known as the Holocaust) today, it is common to hear questions like: \”How could a nation of philosophers, composers of classical music, technology, poets, in this seat of the Enlightenment itself, suddenly give vent to savagery not seen since the Dark Ages? How could such dreadful, inhumane impulses seize every apparatus of a nation and cause it to commit such atrocities?\”
Germany ready to prosecute last living Nazis
Jewish Journal
October 5, 2011
Renewed efforts to prosecute the last living Nazi war criminals will be launched in Berlin this fall.
Sobibor museum closes due to lack of funds
Jewish Journal
June 2, 2011
The museum at the Nazi death camp Sobibor closed due to a lack of funding. The museum in Poland on the grounds of the death camp announced Thursday that it closed because the regional government did not provide enough funding to keep it open, the German press agency dpa reported.
John Demjanjuk found guilty of war crimes
Jewish Journal
May 12, 2011
A Munich court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of war crimes, and sentenced the 91-year-old former autoworker to five years in prison.
Death Camp Uprising
Alan Riding
September 5, 2002
In the history of the Holocaust, the Sobibor death camp in Eastern Poland has remained something of a footnote, a place where 260,000 Jews were murdered, as opposed to at least 1.1 million in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Having operated for just 18 months and closed long before the Allied victory in May 1945, Sobibor, like its victims, disappeared almost without a trace.
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