Two out of every three Jews living in Europe at the beginning of the 1930s died during Nazi rule and World War II. The most prudent ones left Germany following Hitler’s rise to power, but the immense majority were ensnared and killed in the Nazis’ instruments of repression – ghettoes and concentration/extermination camps.Continue Reading
On 22th March countries around the world will celebrate World Water Day, the day the United Nations designated to highlight the role this natural resource plays in poverty reduction, economic growth and environmental sustainability. According to UN data...Continue Reading
The exhibition 'Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away.’ has received more than 200,000 visitors during its first 100 days at the Arte Canal Exhibition Center in Madrid, its only destination in Spain. Likewise, 250,000 people have already purchased their tickets to attend the exhibition, which shows more than 600...Continue Reading
Ludwig Neumann was a German-Jewish businessman who owned an industrial clothing company, Neumann & Mendel. The factory was founded in 1889 by Emil Neumann and Carl Mendel, and from 1923 Ludwig became the sole owner. From 1 January 1938 German Jews were banned from operating businesses and...Continue Reading
Jehovah's Witnesses were subjected to intense persecution under the Nazi regime. The Nazis targeted Jehovah's Witnesses because they were unwilling to accept the authority of the state, because of their international connections, and because they were strongly opposed to both war on behalf of a temporal authority and organized government in matters of conscience.Continue Reading
In the spring of 1942, two thousand unmarried women from Slovakia were deported in two trains to the concentration camp in Auschwitz. Helena Citrónová was among them.Continue Reading
So what does a tropical island have to do with European antisemitism? Religious hostility to Jews had been present in Christian Europe for centuries – with people wrongly blaming Jewish people for the death of Jesus. But by the late 1800s a dangerous new idea was taking hold: that Jews were not just a religious...Continue Reading
In mid-1944, barely a year before World War II drew to a close, Hungary was home to the last Jewish community in Europe not to have been exterminated by the Nazis. When Germany invaded the country in March, plans were put into effect to press on with the Final Solution by deporting the almost 800,000...Continue Reading
More than 620 school groups from all over Spain have already made a reservation to visit the Auschwitz. Not long ago. Not far away. exhibition during its first weeks in Madrid. Continue Reading
