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Hundreds of death camp victims’ personal belongings handed over on anniversary of International Holocaust Day

The items are evidence collected as part of an Institute of National Remembrance investigation into the murder of prisoners at the Treblinka Penal Forced Labour Camp, which lies a couple of kilometres from the better-known extermination camp where the Germans murdered around 900,000 Jews. Kalbar/TFN

At today’s handover at the Treblinka death camp memorial museum, IPN chief Dr Karol Nawrocki said that the objects “are not just evidence of the crimes committed by the Germans but also evidence of victory over amnesia.”

Horror experience of women subjected to bestial experiments at WWII concentration camp retold in powerful new exhibition

Entitled ‘The girls from KL Ravensbrück’, the bilingual exhibition juxtaposes two worlds, that of youthful freedom before the war and the hell of the camp through a display of 4,000 personal objects from the women collected over several years by the museum.

“The Olkusz man that won the war”: Antoni Kocjan remembered on anniversary of execution

Killed on this day in 1944, Kocjan played a vital role in demystifying Nazi wonder weapons and is credited with saving London from further destruction.

Unbelievable tale of children born and imprisoned in notorious Gestapo prison retold in harrowing new book

After months of meticulous research, author Sylwia Winnik gathered together eight accounts of children who spent part of their childhood in the German prison in occupied Warsaw for her new book Dzieci z Pawiaka (The Children from Pawiak). TFN’s Stuart Dowell met her to find out more.

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Call of the wild: Adventurers team up to brave subzero temperatures and 100km winds as they ski across Greenland in just ONE month!

Experienced explorers Mateusz Waligóra and Łukasz Supergan will be walking the 600km distance from the west to the east of the world’s largest island on skis, with a plan to complete the arduous journey in just one month.

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Four tonnes of Nazi gold found in buried 18th century palace canister, say WWII treasure hunters

Measuring between 1.3 to 1.5 metres long and 50cm in depth, the cylindrical metal canister was found in the conservatory of an 18th century palace used by Hitler’s SS as a brothel.

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