Video: 'The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank - English Subtitles' (Auschwitz arrival at 31:07)

(Wednesday, September 6, 1944, approximately 2:00 a.m. Central European Summer Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — Following a two-and-a-half day journey crammed into a packed cattle car with little water or fresh air and no facilities except for a bucket, Jewish diarist Anne Frank, 15, was among 1,019 Jews ordered to disembark from their cattle cars early this morning upon arrival at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp in German-occupied Poland. Continue reading Anne Frank’s arrival at Auschwitz: A harrowing account of survival and separation 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 6 1944) →

Video: 'The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank - English Subtitles' (Sept. 3, 1944, at 22:01)

(Sunday, September 3, 1944; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — Fifteen-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank, along with her family and other occupants of the Secret Annex, was deported today from the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Continue reading Jewish diarist Anne Frank, 15, deported on last transport from Westerbork to Auschwitz concentration camp 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 3 1944) →

Video: 'Anne Frank's capture and her diary with Miep Gies' (Aug. 4, 1944, at 2:44)

(Friday, August 4, 1944, approximately 10:30 a.m. Central European Summer Time; during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — On her 761st day in hiding in the Achterhuis (translated as “Secret Annex” in English editions of her diary), 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank, her parents, older sister, the Van Pel family, and dentist Fritz Pfeffer were unexpectedly discovered and arrested this morning. Continue reading Jewish diarist Anne Frank, 15, and occupants of Amsterdam’s ‘secret annex’ arrested by Gestapo during Holocaust 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 4 1944) →

(Tuesday, August 1, 1944; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — On Anne Frank‘s 758th day in hiding in a secret apartment behind her father’s business in German-occupied Amsterdam, the 15-year-old Jewish girl wrote her last entry in her diary today, writing about her “little bundle of contradictions.” Continue reading Anne Frank, 15, writes what would become her final diary entry 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 1 1944) →

Video: 'Majdanek concentration camp' (parts 1-5)

(Sunday, July 23, 1944; part of The Holocaust, during World War II) — Red Army soldiers discovered the abandoned Majdanek concentration camp on the outskirts of Lublin in eastern Poland today, marking the first Nazi camp to be freed from German control. Continue reading Soviets liberate Majdanek, first Nazi concentration camp freed from German control 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 23 1944) →

Video: 'CENSORED: The Great Escape from Death Camp Sobibór - October 16, 1943 - War Against Humanity 082' (Sobibór uprising at 6:39)

(Thursday, October 14, 1943, 4:00 p.m. Central European Time; during The Holocaust and World War II) — Members of the underground, led by Polish-Jewish prisoner Leon Feldhendler and Soviet-Jewish POW Alexander Pechersky, launched the Sobibór uprising today, covertly killing eleven SS officers and a number of guards at the Sobibór extermination camp in German-occupied Poland. Continue reading 300 prisoners escape Nazi extermination camp at Sobibor in German-occupied Poland 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 14 1943) →

Video: 'Josef Mengele - The Angel of Death Documentary'

(Sunday, May 30, 1943; during the The Holocaust, part of World War II) — German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer Dr. Josef Mengele, also known as the Angel of Death, today became the head doctor of the BIIe sector of Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, which was the family camp for Sinti and Roma prisoners. Continue reading Dr. Josef ‘Angel of Death’ Mengele reports for duty at Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (May 30 1943) →

Video: 'Drowning Germans, Burning Jews - War Against Humanity 061 - May 22, 1943' (May 16, 1943, at 1:17)

(Sunday, May 16, 1943, 8:15 p.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST); during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The nearly month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — the act of Jewish resistance in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany’s final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Majdanek and Treblinka death camps — came to an end tonight as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the Great Synagogue. Continue reading Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends as German forces crush Jewish resistance and blow up Great Synagogue 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 16 1943) →

Video: 'The Myth of the Nazi Police State - WW2 Documentary Special'

(Wednesday, April 26, 1933) — Nazi Germany’s infamous secret police, better known as the Gestapo, was formed today by Reichsstatthalter Hermann Göring to control political dissent within the German state of Prussia. Continue reading Nazi Germany’s infamous secret police Gestapo created by Hermann Göring 90 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Apr 26 1933) →