Video: 'Return to Rivne'

(Monday, July 13, 1942, 10:00 p.m. Central European Summer Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Rovno Ghetto, a World War II Nazi ghetto established in December 1941 in the city of Rovno, western Ukraine, in the territory of German-administered Reichskommissariat Ukraine, was liquidated tonight when a “shared” division of the SS and Ukrainian police units surrounded the ghetto, positioned spotlights around it and turned them on. Continue reading Nazis liquidate Rovno Ghetto in Ukraine, 5,000 Jews taken to nearby forest and shot 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 13 1942) →

Video: 'Anne Frank - Lembrada - Legendado' (July 6, 1942, at 24:18)

(Monday, July 6, 1942, 7:30 a.m. Central European Summer Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — One day after Margot Frank, a 16-year-old Jewish girl living in Nazi-occupied Holland, received a call-up notice to report to a work camp in Germany, the Frank family (Anne, 13, and her parents, Otto and Edith), went into hiding today in rooms above and behind the premesis of her father’s business in Amsterdam, where some of his most trusted employees would help them survive. Continue reading Anne Frank’s family takes refuge in ‘Secret Annex’ of Amsterdam warehouse to hide from Nazi occupiers 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 6 1942) →

Video: 'Anne Frank - Lembrada - Legendado' (July 5, 1942, at 22:55)

(Sunday, July 5, 1942, 3:00 p.m. Central European Summer Time; during The Holocaust , part of World War II) — Margot Frank, the 16-year-old sister of Anne Frank, 13, received a call-up notice to report for deportation to a forced-labor today from the Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung (Central Office for Jewish Emigration) at their Amsterdam apartment on the Merwedeplein (Merwede Square) in Nazi-occupied Holland. Continue reading Margot Frank, Anne Frank’s elder sister, receives call-up notice to report for deportation to forced-labor camp 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 5 1942) →

Video: 'AUSCHWITZ ,THE NAZIS AND THE FINAL SOLUTION'

(Saturday, June 20, 1942, morning Central European Summer Time; during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — Kazimierz Piechowski, who was among Polish Boy Scouts sent to the camp as political prisoners in 1940, and three other inmates (Stanislaw Gustaw Jaster, Józef Lempart, and Eugeniusz Bendera), conducted a daring escape today from Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) of the Nazi death camp in Oswiecim. Continue reading Kazimierz Piechowski, three other prisoners escape Auschwitz death camp 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 20 1942) →

Video: 'Remembering Anne Frank'

(Monday, June 16, 1952) — Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, a book of the writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her Jewish family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, was published today in the United States for the first time by Doubleday & Company. Continue reading Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl published in the United States 70 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 16 1952) →

Video: 'Lidice Massacre - Brutal Nazi Revenge for Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich - Operation Anthropoid'

(Wednesday, June 10, 1942, the shooting of the men commenced at about 7:00 a.m. and continued until the afternoon hours Central European Summer Time; during the Lidice massacre, part of World War II) — German forces burned the tiny Czech village of Lidice today after executing 173 men and shipping the women and children to concentration camps in reprisal for the recent assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich, architect of The Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Continue reading German forces wipe out Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for assassination of top Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 10 1942) →

Video: 'Adolf Eichmann | Nazi Hunters | S1E02'

(Friday, June 1, 1962, a few minutes past midnight Israel Standard Time) — Adolf Eichmann, a German-Austrian SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of The Holocaust, the so-called “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” in Nazi terminology, was hanged at a prison in Ramla, Israel, early this morning. Continue reading Nazi mass murderer Adolf Eichmann executed in Israel 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 1 1962) →

Video: 'The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich | Nazi Hunters'

(Wednesday, May 27, 1942, approximately 10:35 a.m. Central European Summer Time; during Operation Anthropoid, part of World War II) — Reinhard Heydrich — the commander of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and a principal architect of The Holocaust — was attacked and wounded today in an assassination attempt by a team of Czech and Slovak soldiers. Continue reading Czech partisans attack and mortally wound top Nazi leader and Holocaust mastermind Reinhard Heydrich in Prague 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 27 1942) →

Video: 'Sobibor'

(Saturday, May 16, 1942; during the The Holocaust, part of World War II) — Sobibór, an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany in the forest near the village of Sobibór in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland for the sole purpose of murdering Jews, became fully operational today (note: some sources say the camp may have become fully operation on Monday, May 18). Continue reading Sobibór extermination camp becomes operational in German-occupied Poland 80 years ago #OnThisDate #OTD (May 16 1942) →