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Auschwitz 75th: The battle against ignorance

Asiatimes 28 Jan 2020

On a day when the news was a-brim with the deadly potential of the Wuhan coronavirus, the world remembered the murderous impact of a deadlier virus. humanity itself. On Monday, the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the most notorious of the Nazi concentration and death camps, was commemorated on ground zero itself, in Poland ... Clip ... Clip.

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Tenth Anniversary of Belzec Museum-Memorial Dedication

PR Newswire 25 Jun 2014

WARSAW, Poland, June 25, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Polish, American, and Israeli government officials joined AJC leadership, including AJC President Stanley Bergman, in Belzec today to mark the tenth anniversary of the memorial and museum erected at the site of the Nazi death camp in southeastern Poland.

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Past and Present

Huffington Post 22 Jun 2014

Belzec ... But during World War II, Belzec, a small town in southeastern Poland, was one of the main Nazi death camps in the occupied country, along with Auschwitz-Birkenau, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor and Treblinka ... The Nazis almost succeeded, helped by the jarring fact that only two people were believed to have survived Belzec.

photo: AP / Yad Vashem Photo Archive

This photo made available by Yad Vashem Photo Archive in Jerusalem shows Nazi guards at Belzec death camp in occupied Poland in 1942. A former Nazi death camp guard has been charged with participating in the murder of 430,000 Jews and other crimes during the Third Reich, German prosecutors said Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Samuel Kunz, 90, was informed last week of his indictment on charges including participation in the murder of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp in occupied Poland, where he served as a guard from January 1942 to July 1943, prosecutor Christoph Goeke in Dortmund said.

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Nazi suspect dies before trial, German court says

The Star 22 Nov 2010

Samuel Kunz, charged in July with assisting in the murder of Jews at Belzec death camp near the Polish city of Lublin between 1942 and 1943, died on Nov. 18, the court in the city of Bonn said ... .

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German prosecutors reveal gruesome charges against Nazi suspect from Belzec death camp

Star Tribune 29 Jul 2010

BERLIN - The world's third most wanted Nazi suspect, who allegedly participated in the murder of more than 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp, was involved in the entire killing process ... Kunz was 20 years old when he allegedly started working as a guard at Belzec in January 1942.

photo: AP / Yad Vashem Photo Archive

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Former Nazi Guard, 88, Charged in Mass Murder of Jews

The New York Times 28 Jul 2010

BERLIN — German prosecutors have charged an 88-year-old former Nazi guard with aiding in the murders of 430,000 Jews at the Belzec death camp during World War II, and with shooting 10 people himself during his time there. The former guard, Samuel Kunz, No ... In a case with echoes of the trial underway in Munich of John Demjanjuk, Mr ... Mr ... Unlike Mr.

photo: AP / Czarek Sokolowski, file

Polish soldiers holding eternal flames stand in front of a wall during the inauguration at the vast new memorial for the victims of the Belzec Nazi death camp in Belzec, Poland, Thursday, June 3, 2004.

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Germany charges former Nazi guard in death camp murders

The Daily Telegraph Australia 28 Jul 2010

Samuel Kunz, who confessed to working at the Belzec extermination camp in German-occupied Poland from 1942 to 1943, was informed of the charges last week, a spokesman for prosecutors in the western city of Dortmund said ... incidents also at Belzec, spokesman Christoph Goeke said.

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Memorial honours Belzec camp victims

The Independent 04 Jun 2004

By Vanessa Gera in Belzec ... Large walls are inscribed with the names of some of the victims gassed at Belzec between March and December 1942 ... The new memorial includes a museum about Belzec, one of six death camps set up in occupied Poland as part of the Nazi "final solution" to exterminate Europe's Jews ... .

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AJC: Lawsuit on Belzec Project 'Frivolous'

Yahoo Daily News 23 Jul 2003

Harris declared today, responding to queries about an action brought against the national organization in a New York court regarding a highly acclaimed project to erect a memorial at the site of the former Nazi death camp at Belzec in southeastern Poland ... The Belzec Memorial Project, a joint effort of the AJC and Poland, with support from the U.S.

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American Jewish Committee Gratified at Withdrawal of Complaint on Belzec Project

Yahoo Daily News 03 Jul 2003

Newswire/ -- The American Jewish Committee is gratified that a suit filed against it concerning the construction of a memorial project at the site of the Belzec death camp in Poland has been dismissed by the plaintiff himself ... Only a handful of victims survived Belzec, and only one was able to offer a full account of what he had seen.