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Sobibor survivor Thomas Tovi Blatt confronts Death Camp Commandant Karl
Frenzel (forced labour section) in 1983
Thomas Tovi Blatt (left) and Karl Frenzel meet in a hotel room in Hagen
Germany in 1983
Thomas Blatt: Here you are drinking beer. With that smile on your face you
could be anybody’s neighbour, anybody’s fellow sporting club member.
But you are not anybody. You are Karl Frenzel, the SS commandant. You ranked
third in the chain of command at the extermination camp of Sobibor. You were
the commandant of Lager 1. Do you remember me?
Karl Frenzel: Not exactly you were a small boy then
Thomas Blatt: I was fifteen years old. I survived because you made me your
shoeshine boy. Besides me nobody survived; not my father, not my mother, not
my brother, none of the two thousand Jews from my town, Izbica.
Karl Frenzel: That was terrible, just terrible... (more)
CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 01/27/12 -- Citizenship, Immigration and
Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney, today announced financial support for
a photographic exhibit honouring Muslim Albanians who rescued Jews during the
Holocaust. The exhibit tells the moving story of how the Besa, a code of
honour in Albanian culture, guided their courageous actions.
"Exhibits like this one help to showcase the values we celebrate in this
country and the importance of respect for fundamental freedoms, regardless of
one's background or religion," Minister Kenney said.
The "BESA: A Co... (more)
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NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In observance of
International Holocaust Remembrance Day, AJC issued the statement below, and
re-released its short film on the Nazi death camp, Belzec. More than 500,000
Jews were slaughtered there in less than a year. Only two Jews survived. View
Belzec film.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/AJCLOGO)
The full text of AJC's statement follows:
We Remember
In the Jewish tradition, we are commanded to remember (zachor) and not to
forget (lo tishkach). On January 27, we commemorate International Holocaust
Remembr... (more)
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