Congressman Ami Bera honored Andra Bucci, who is the subject of the KCRA 3 documentary "Always Remember Your Name." ...
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev issued a series of reforms and the Communist Party gave up its 70-year monopoly of political power in the Soviet Union.
We commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, designated by the United Nations to mark the anniversary of the January 27, 1945 liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi ...
A Nanovic Institute event for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, author Helen Epstein discussed her mother’s Holocaust ...
Of those, all but 25 died in the gas chambers. Carter had been among 18 young boys selected for medical experimentation conducted by Josef Mengele. BJ Carter believes her future husband was spared ...
On the 80th anniversary of its liberation, survivors of the Holocaust gathered at the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Of the more than six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, 1.1 ...
In the final years of her husband's life, BJ Carter finally learned details of her husband's life he'd never remembered.
It is they who deserve to be heard on such a day — those few who survived the former Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination and concentration camp, of whom 56 traveled back to the site of horror to attend ...
She and her twin sister, Miriam, experienced horrors in the inhum ane medical experiments of SS physician Josef Mengele. Laks was initially lined up to be murdered in gas chambers, but her older ...
She described having to stand in front of Dr Josef Mengele, the infamous camp physician, every morning, who would look at their naked bodies. Those who were deemed to be losing weight too quickly ...
It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
During her time there, she was abused for experiments by the camp's former doctor Josef Mengele. Maksymowicz survived there for thirteen months. She lost touch with her mother shortly before ...