Category Archives: The Holocaust

Nazi concentration camp commandant Amon Göth hanged for Holocaust atrocities 80 years ago this hour (Sep 13 1946)

1940s, The Holocaust


Video: 'Analyzing Evil: Amon Göth (Goeth) From Schindler's List'

(Friday, September 13, 1946, around 6:00 p.m. Central European Summer Time) — Amon Göth, the former commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Plaszów whose reign of terror claimed thousands of lives during the German occupation of Poland, was hanged today after being convicted of war crimes by Poland’s Supreme National Tribunal. Continue reading Nazi concentration camp commandant Amon Göth hanged for Holocaust atrocities 80 years ago this hour (Sep 13 1946) →

War crimes court at Nuremberg sees horror films 80 years ago today (Nov 29 1945)

1940s, The Holocaust, World War II


Video: 'Nuremberg Day 8 Concentration Camp Film'

(Thursday, November 29, 1945; during the Nuremberg trials) — Tearing away the sanctimonious mask behind which the German leaders had cloaked their evil acts and intentions, the American prosecution presented today before the International Military Tribunal a one-hour nightmare in motion pictures depicting the fear and terror and the nameless horror of the concentration camps that, the prosecution charges, were an integral part of their hold on the German people. Continue reading War crimes court at Nuremberg sees horror films 80 years ago today (Nov 29 1945) →

Nazi war criminals enter ‘not guilty’ pleas at Nuremberg 80 years ago today (Nov 21 1945)

1940s, The Holocaust, World War II


Video: 'Nuremberg Day 2 Defendants Plead (translated captions)'

(Wednesday, November 21, 1945, morning Central European Time; during the Nuremberg trials) — One day after the trial of the major Nazi war criminals by the International Military Tribunal began in Nuremberg, Germany, the defendants entered their pleas of “not guilty.”

Hermann Göring tried to make a statement, but was prevented by the court from doing so. Continue reading Nazi war criminals enter ‘not guilty’ pleas at Nuremberg 80 years ago today (Nov 21 1945) →

‘Diary of Anne Frank’ opens on Broadway 70 years ago this hour (Oct 5 1955)

1950s, Broadway, The Holocaust


Video: 'The Forward Presents: Behind the Curtain - Actors From "The Diary of Anne Frank" 70 Years Later'

(Wednesday, October 5, 1955, 8:00 p.m. EDT) — The Diary of Anne Frank, a stage adaptation of the book The Diary of a Young Girl by Holocaust victim Anne Frank (1929-1945), opened tonight at Cort Theatre, a Broadway theater at 138 West 48th Street, between Seventh Avenue and Sixth Avenue, in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City, New York. Continue reading ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ opens on Broadway 70 years ago this hour (Oct 5 1955) →

German Jews deprived of citizenship by Nuremberg Laws 90 years ago today (Sep 15 1935)

1930s, The Holocaust


Video: '15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory 'Nuremberg Laws''

(Sunday, September 15, 1935) — Germany’s Reichstag, meeting in special session during the National Socialist Party’s “Day of Freedom,” today passed the so-called Nuremberg Laws, a sweeping set of racial decrees that stripped Jews of citizenship and outlawed marriages between Jews and so-called Aryans. Continue reading German Jews deprived of citizenship by Nuremberg Laws 90 years ago today (Sep 15 1935) →

Gerald Ford becomes first U.S. president to visit Auschwitz concentration camp 50 years ago this hour (July 29 1975)

1970s, The Holocaust, U.S. Presidents


Video: 'SYND 30 7 75 FORD VISITS AUSCHWITZ'

(Tuesday, July 29, 1975, 10:15 a.m. Central European Time) — President Gerald R. Ford today became the first U.S. president to visit the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.

Otto Frank confirms his daughters Margot, Anne are dead 80 years ago today (July 18 1945)

1940s, The Holocaust, World War II


Video: 'Anne Frank (The Whole Story)' (July 18, 1945, at 2:53:02)

(Wednesday, July 18, 1945; during World War II) — Otto Frank, who had returned to Amsterdam on June 3, 1945, having been liberated Jan. 27, 1945, at the Auschwitz concentration camp, confirmed today (via a Red Cross list, then confirmation from Lin Brilleslijper, a fellow inmate of the Frank girls at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp) that his daughters, Margot and Anne, had died in the Holocaust some time . Continue reading Otto Frank confirms his daughters Margot, Anne are dead 80 years ago today (July 18 1945) →

Body of notorious Nazi Josef Mengele exhumed 40 years ago today (June 6 1985)

1980s, The Holocaust


Video: 'Confirming the remains of Josef Mengele (1985)'

(Thursday, June 6, 1985) — Authorities in Brazil today exhumed a body later identified as the remains of Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious “Angel of Death” of the Nazi Holocaust. Continue reading Body of notorious Nazi Josef Mengele exhumed 40 years ago today (June 6 1985) →

Anne Frank’s father, Otto, returns to Amsterdam 80 years ago today (June 3 1945)

1940s, The Holocaust, World War II


Video: 'Anne Frank (The Whole Story)' (June 3, 1945, at 2:47:31)

(Sunday, June 3, 1945; during World War II) — Otto Frank, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, returned to Amsterdam today, not knowing whether his daughters, Anne and Margot, are still alive. Continue reading Anne Frank’s father, Otto, returns to Amsterdam 80 years ago today (June 3 1945) →

Nazi war criminal Heinrich Himmler commits suicide while in British custody 80 years ago this hour (May 23 1945)

1940s, The Holocaust, World War II


Video: 'Death Of Himmler (1945)'

(Wednesday, May 23, 1945, 11:14 p.m. CEST; on the Western Front and Eastern Front during World War II) — Nazi official Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the people most directly responsible for the Holocaust, committed suicide tonight by biting into a cyanide capsule while in British custody in Luneburg, Germany. Continue reading Nazi war criminal Heinrich Himmler commits suicide while in British custody 80 years ago this hour (May 23 1945) →