Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist was arrested and sent to a concentration camp, but was later allowed to return to combat duty.
The launch coincided with the arrest last Thursday of Dinko Sakic, sought for alleged war crimes as the head of a concentration camp.
In thick black pen, Spiegelman drew his Jewish parents as mice in a concentration camp where the Germans were cats and the Poles were pigs.
One of my parents' closest friends spent the war first in the Lodz ghetto in occupied Poland, then survived a concentration camp by lying about his age.
Von Kleist himself was arrested, questioned at length by the Gestapo, and sent to a concentration camp, but then inexplicably let go and returned to combat duty.
Veteran broadcaster and writer Lubomir Doruzka tells how a guitar player was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to a concentration camp for singing a chorus of Louis Armstrong's "Super Tiger Rag".
Perhaps she was afraid I might have inherited the fatal ingenuousness of her sister, Miriam, my mother, who died in a concentration camp in Poland, having been handed over to the Gestapo by her so-called "protector".
He emphasized that his mother had long kept from him the knowledge of his Jewish forbearers in order to protect him from the fate of her father in turn by the Nazis in a concentration camp in North Africa.
That a modern state was searching, at great expense and at a cost to its own war effort, to find a fifteen-year-old girl in an attic in Amsterdam in order to get her on a train bound for a concentration camp in Poland showed something new in the theatre of human action.
Her philosophy originated during World War II through her experiences as a prisoner of war in a Japanese concentration camp in Indonesia.
He talks about his great-uncle's service in World War II, as a member of the infantry division that first liberated a Nazi concentration camp.
But when Lea Rosh gave a speech at the inauguration of Berlin's new Holocaust memorial, she stunned the audience by brandishing a molar she found 17 years ago at Belzec, a Nazi concentration camp, and saying she would set it into one of the memorial's 2, 711 concrete pillars.
Mr Kumf was found to have served as a guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany and Trawniki in Nazi-occupied Poland, where the mass shooting took place in 1943.
Mr Kalejs is also alleged to have worked as a guard at the Salaspils concentration camp near the Latvian capital, Riga, where other murders were committed.
Roman Halter was taken to Auschwitz and Stutthof concentration camps, then a German labour camp.
Obama will follow his visit to Egypt with a trip to the remains of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany on June 5.
Last February I led a historic visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp with more than 150 political and religious leaders, mostly from Arab and Muslim countries.
Pope Benedict, who was born in Germany and forced to join the Hitler Youth as a teenager, has spoken out forcefully against the Holocaust on several occasions, including on a visit to the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Then the Nazis latched on to it and a sign bearing the inscription appeared at the Dachau concentration camp, set up by Heinrich Himmler in 1933 to use dissidents as slave labour.
This useful term was introduced in the 1970s by the Dutch artist Armando, who grew up near Kamp Amersfoort, used during the Second World War as a transit camp for prisoners being sent off to concentration camps.
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Among the handful of documents here from the period of World War II, a section of the archives still closed to scholars, is a 1942 letter from Jewish inmates of an Italian concentration camp, thanking Pope Pius XII for his support and gifts of clothing.
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He will travel to Buchenwald, the concentration camp his great uncle helped liberate, a visit that makes personal and historical sense.
Mehlman uses his mother's concentration-camp number to gamble on, a despairing joke of a way to show that misfortune is always with us.
Arrested in 1936, Sally, a Russian-born Jew, is sent to Mauthausen concentration camp, in Germany, where he survives for five years by painting Nazi kitsch.
Museum officials at the former Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland have restored the metal entrance sign damaged in a theft 17 months ago.
It is based on a former miner who was one of the first Allied soldiers to enter Belsen concentration camp on its liberation in World War II.
He was always convinced his parents and grandmother died in Auschwitz in 1944, and last week received a picture featuring the suitcase his father carried into the camp at the Nazi concentration camp, confirming this.
The house has been turned into a museum dedicated to the young girl, who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945 aged 15.
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