Josef Kramer, the “Beast of Belsen”, Irma Grese, chief woman guard at the camp, and nine other of the Belsen S.S. guards were hanged yesterday at Hamelin, Germany, by an official British hangman, it ...
The Russians had clamored: “When will they hang the dog?” Last week at Lüneburg, a British Army court sentenced Joseph Kramer, the “beast of Belsen,” to death by hanging. His blonde, sadistic ...
The glare of floodlights suddenly fell on the defendants’ faces. A small, stocky woman walked toward the dock. She pointed at a thin-lipped, narrow-eyed man with a low. receding forehead and brows ...
The great American writer John Steinbeck, Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1962 and author of extraordinary novels such as “Grapes of Wrath” and “East of Paradise”, maintained, in this last novel ...
TAMPA (WFLA) – In 2017, Hurricane Irma, weakened slightly from Category 5 to Category 4, blew ashore on the Florida Keys with winds of 130 mph. Yes, that was seven years ago, and it was a long-lived ...
Jonathan Dimbleby explores the legacy of the Belsen Nazi concentration camp. Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby traces his war correspondent father’s footsteps, exploring the liberation and legacy of the ...
This interview originally aired on In the Moment on SDPB Radio. Author Patrick Hicks joins In the Moment to explore themes of gender and violence during the Holocaust. His latest novel features the ...
This story has been updated. Just days after Hurricane Harvey brought historic rainfall to parts of Texas and Louisiana, another potentially catastrophic hurricane looms in the Atlantic. Hurricane ...
Public domain photo The train tracks into the Auschwitz II-Birkenau Camp, the largest of the camps that made up Auschwitz and the camp where the vast majority of the killing took place. Perhaps no ...
A house is reflected in flood waters that overflowed from Lake Sampson after Hurricane Irma brought torrential rainfall in September, 2017. This week marks five years since Hurricane Irma hit Florida.