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4 December 2024 at 7.30pm at the National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights This conference is organised as part of the 80th anniversary of the evacuation of the Natzweiler concentration camp. During the lecture, historian Robert Steegmann will review the key events of 1944, focusing on the very special history of this camp in annexed Alsace. The conference is organised in partnership ...
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Auschwitz remains the most terrible symbol of the Shoah, a symbol that is periodically threatened with being either denied or reclaimed. Since 2005, however, the Museum’s curators have done an outstanding job in putting together a new permanent exhibition, in addition to the one that has existed since 1947. A visit is therefore a must for anyone who has any doubts about the reality of ...
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Twenty countries have participated in events commemorating the murder of 150000 people here during the Second World War, one-third of whom were Jewish. Mauthausen was classified by the SS administration as a “Category 3” camp; this category of camp corresponded to the harshest possible treatment. The prisoners sent here were designated “return undesirable” and destined ...
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The concentration camps situated in the territory of the former GDR (Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald) have been transformed into memorials. The transformation was a way for the Communist regime to tell its own version of the story of Nazi resistance. The victims of the camp are gathered together under the rubric “antifascists”, and emphasis os on the role of deported Communists in the ...
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