Video: 'Oskar Schindler: The Man Behind the List'
(Wednesday, October 9, 1974) — Businessman Oskar Schindler, credited with saving about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, died today in Frankfurt, West Germany, at age 66.
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Anne Frank’s family notified of deportation to the east 70 years ago today (Sep 2 1944)
Video: 'Anne Frank - The Whole Story (2001) 2/2' (Sept. 2, 1944, at 50:08-52:44)
(Saturday, September 2, 1944; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank and her family were notified today that they would be deported from Holland the following day, transferred from the transit camp Westerbork to somewhere east.
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Anne Frank transferred to transit camp Westerbork 70 years ago today (Aug 8 1944)
Video: 'Anne Frank - The Whole Story (2001) 2/2' (Aug. 8, 1944, at 42:59)
(Tuesday, August 8, 1944, early morning CET; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank, her family, the van Pel family and dentist Fritz Pfeffer, the eight people in discovered hiding in the “Secret Annex” were removed from their cells at Huis van Bewaring (House of Detention), an overcrowded prison on the Weteringschans, and taken by tram to the Centraal train station in Amsterdam today and transported in an ordinary passenger train to transit camp Westerbork.
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Anne Frank, still in hiding, receives her first kiss 70 years ago this hour (Apr 15 1944)
Video: 'Anne Frank - The Whole Story (2001) 2/2' (Apr. 15, 1944, at 19:56)
(Saturday, April 15, 1944, 9:30 p.m. local time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — On Anne Frank’s 650th day in hiding in a secret apartment behind her father’s business in German-occupied Amsterdam, the 14-year-old girl received her first kiss while on a “date” with Peter van Pels.
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‘Schindler’s List’ wins Best Picture at 66th Academy Awards 20 years ago this hour (Mar 21 1994)
Video: '66th (1994) Oscars' (12 videos in playlist)
(Monday, March 21, 1994, 9:00 p.m. EST) — Schindler’s List, an epic historical drama film about the Holocaust, won seven Oscars tonight at the 66th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Steven Spielberg for Best Director. Tom Hanks won Best Actor for Philadelphia and Holly Hunter won Best Actress for The Piano. Continue reading ‘Schindler’s List’ wins Best Picture at 66th Academy Awards 20 years ago this hour (Mar 21 1994)
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Siskel & Ebert pick ‘Schindler’s List’ as best film of 1993 20 years ago today (Jan 1 1994)
Video: 'Siskel & Ebert - The Best of 1993'
(Saturday, January 1, 1994) — Film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert today both picked Schindler’s List, an epic drama film about of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories, as the best film of 1993.
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Christmas cake with ‘Peace 1944’ served in Anne Frank’s hiding place 70 years ago tonight (12/24/1943)
Video: 'MOVIE - Diary of Anne Frank - 1 1' (Dec. 24, 1943, at 1:51:59)
(Friday, December 24, 1943, evening; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — “Friday evening, for the first time in my life, I received a Christmas present,” Anne Frank, 14, would write about this evening in her famous diary on Dec. 27, 1943. “Mr. Kleiman, Mr. Kugler and the girls had prepared a wonderful surprise for us. Miep made a delicious Christmas cake with ‘Peace 1944’ written on top, and Bep provided a batch of cookies that was up to prewar standards.” Continue reading Christmas cake with ‘Peace 1944’ served in Anne Frank’s hiding place 70 years ago tonight (12/24/1943)
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Crematorium II becomes operational at Auschwitz death camp 70 years ago today (1943)
Video: 'Auschwitz II Birkenau Crematorium II'
(Wednesday, March 31, 1943, part of The Holocaust during World War II) — Crematorium II, with the capacity to burn 1440 corpses a day, became operational today at the Auschwitz II–Birkenau extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Originally designed as a mortuary, with morgues in the basement and ground-level furnaces, Crematorium II was converted to increase greatly the gassing capacity of Birkenau by placing a gas-tight door on the morgues and adding vents for Zyklon-B and ventilation equipment to remove the gas.
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Nazi Germany opens first concentration camp 80 years ago today (1933)
Video: 'The World at War - Episode 1 - A New Germany' (Oranienburg concentration camp at 5:45)
(Tuesday, March 21, 1933) — Local SA stormtroopers took over a vacant factory building in the town centre of Oranienburg today and set up the first concentration camp in the state of Prussia.
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Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to Lyon, France 30 years ago today (1983)
Video: 'Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie' (part 15; Feb. 5, 1983, at 11:01
(Saturday, February 5, 1983) — Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie, expelled from Bolivia, was brought to Lyon, France, today to stand trial (known as the “Butcher of Lyon” for having personally tortured prisoners of the Gestapo while stationed in Lyon, France, he was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to life in prison. He died in 1991.) Continue reading Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to Lyon, France 30 years ago today (1983)
