In a filmed testimony with Yad Vashem, Holocaust Survivor Ester Gelbelman recalls what happened to her and her family in late December 1941. She says in her testimony, while fighting back tears, “They killed my big brother right next to me. He was twenty-one. The bullet went in here (she points to her head), he Read More| blog.ehri-project.eu
Sophie Turner-Zaretsky and her family were forced into the ghetto when the Germans occupied Lviv. In 1942, her father acquired false documents for her and her mother, enabling their escape. One day, Sophie received a stuffed bear from her mother. “She later named it ‘Refugee,‘ just like she and her mother were refugees of the Read More| blog.ehri-project.eu
The “Song of the Peat Bog Soldiers” has been named the “most famous of all concentration camp songs”1 and a “unique example of a European musical circulation before, during, and after the Second World War.”2 Prisoners in the Börgermoor concentration camp created the song in 1933. It describes and criticizes the conditions of the camp Read More| blog.ehri-project.eu
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When in the autumn of 1931 Major Duncan McCallum and his wife Violet were travelling from Kenya to British Somaliland, the local Italian provincial governor Commendatore Massimo Adolfo Vitale hosted them in Italian Somaliland. From this encounter spurred a friendship between the British Major and the Italian Officer, with the both of them remaining in Read More| Document Blog
