Irmgard Furchner is accused of having contributed as an 18-year old to the murder of 11,412 people when she was a typist at the Stutthof concentration camp between 1943 and 1945.
Given the general ignorance about the horrors of Jasenovac, I think it would be helpful to very briefly describe one of its commanders, to give insight into the type of people who built and ran it.
The Polish deputy foreign minister said the country would announce its next steps concerning the squabble with Israel.
The Channel Islands were conquered by the Nazis in 1940 after then British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made the decision that they were of little strategic importance.
Japanese-American soldiers also rescued thousands of survivors of a Nazi death march nearby, caring for them until medical personnel could arrive.
German prosecutors said they had insufficient evidence to prosecute the 95-year-old man for the suspicion of involvement in Nazi war crimes.
The poems written by Sutzkever and other poets in the ghettos and even in the Nazi death and concentration camps were their way of refusing to become dehumanized.
"We can no longer ignore this. We must call it for what it is — a genocide," Conservative lawmaker Michael Chong said.
He saved the lives of many Jewish children and provided many others with a glimpse of confidence and dignity in the hardest circumstances the world had ever known.
Prosecutors and court officials in Neuruppin, where the charges were brought, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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