concentration camp

Extraordinary story of secret ‘letter-writing group’ who used own URINE as invisible ink to reveal death camp horrors

A group of Girl Guides sent to the notorious Ravensbrück concentration camp for women, smuggled out letters written in ‘invisible ink’ – their own urine. Kalbar/TFN/ssaufseherin.fora.pl/ Im Gefolge der SS

The detailed descriptions that the group wrote of German crimes made their way to the Polish underground and eventually to the International Red Cross, the Vatican and the Polish government-in-exile in London. Twenty-seven were later found by one of the writer’s daughters after being hidden for decades in some old furniture.

Kinder KZ: Hitler’s concentration camp for children

In marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, we take a look at the only concentration camp in German-occupied Poland which was purely for the incarceration of Polish children.

Russia holding war-looted Polish artefacts - daily

Paintings and priceless documents, including items from the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi German concentration camp, are being kept in Russian storage facilities, Monday's Rzeczpospolita daily reported.

Polish PM marks 76th anniversary of mass execution of Jews at Majdanek

Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki on Monday commemorated Nazi Germany's World War II Aktion Erntefest, which saw the mass shooting of over 18,000 Jews at the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, eastern Poland.

Lublin commemorates mass execution of 18,000 Jews at Majdanek

The victims of Nazi Germany's World War II Aktion Erntefest, which saw the mass shooting of 18,000 Jews at the Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin (eastern Poland), was remembered by ceremonies in the city on the event's 76 anniversary on Sunday.

Remains of Polish women slaughtered in Nazi's Ravensbrück death camp found

The find was the result of a hunt by the Institute of National Remembrance for victims of Nazi terror.

Warsaw concentration camp liberation 75th anniversary marked

Flowers were laid on Monday at a plaque honouring Home Army (AK) soldiers fighting against German troops in the Warsaw Uprising, who liberated the Warsaw concentration camp Gesiowka and freed around 350 Jews on August 5,1944.

Auschwitz Museum teams up with German organisation to build database of the death camp’s prisoners

The museum will get access to millions of Nazi-era documents stored in Germany.

Hitler’s concentration camp for children

Joanna Podolska-Płocka, the director of the Marek Edelman Dialogue Center in Łódź, talks to TFN about a Nazi German ‘concentration’ camp exclusively for children aged between 2 and 16. Operating between December 1942 and January 1945, the camp has now been almost totally lost from the collective memory.

Beaten, starved and tortured: The horrifying story of Hitler’s concentration camp for children

TFN’s Stuart Dowell travelled to the city of Łódź where, 76 years ago this month, Hitler’s monstrous SS set up a ‘concentration’ camp exclusively for children aged between 2 and 16.

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