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Tag: Mauthausen Concentration Camp

0 Holocaust Education

Lawrence Langer, renowned scholar of Holocaust testimony, dies at 94

Andrew Silow-Carroll in JTA · 5 Feb

Lawrence Langer, a renowned scholar of Holocaust testimony, has passed away at the age of 94.

0 Holocaust Literature

Tom Bird Bears Witness to Two Wars and the Holocaust

Samuel G. Freedman in Tablet · 16 Jun 2016

Actor and playwright Tom Bird presented a unique and powerful staged reading titled "Bearing Witness" on Holocaust Memorial Day in April, intertwining narratives of World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Holocaust through a father-and-son story.

0 Holocaust Communities

Far Right Magazine Gets OK To Call Mauthausen Victims 'Criminals'

Forward · 9 Feb 2016

The head of Austria's Jewish community criticized prosecutors for not indicting authors of an article in a far-right magazine affiliated with the FPO party that labeled Holocaust survivors at Mauthausen as murderers and criminals.

0 Holocaust History

The Holocaust Survivor Who Became an Unlikely Korean War Hero

Forward · 9 Jul 2015

Tibor Rubin, a Hungarian Jew and Holocaust survivor, endured horrors at Mauthausen concentration camp before immigrating to the U.S. where he enlisted in the Army during the Korean War.

0 Holocaust Antisemitism

Swastikas, 'Hitler,' Graffitied on Former Mauthausen Concentration Camp

Forward · 2 Feb 2015

Swastikas and the word "Hitler" were found graffitied at the former Mauthausen concentration camp, now a museum and memorial.

0 Holocaust Art

Nazi Hunter Meets Nazi Architect

Forward · 10 Nov 2014

Israeli artist Dani Gal's installation "As from Afar" at the Jewish Museum explores the unexpected late-life friendship between Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and Nazi architect Albert Speer.

0 Holocaust History

Chasing Dr. Aribert Heim, the 'Butcher of Mauthausen'

Forward · 21 Apr 2014

"The Eternal Nazi" by Nicholas Kulish and Souad Mekhennet is a compelling account of the hunt for Nazi doctor Aribert Heim, infamous for his sadistic medical experiments at Mauthausen concentration camp.