On July 19, 2023, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova published an article titled "Remembering All the Holocaust's Victims," in the Russian media outlet Rossiyskaya Gazeta. In the article, Zakharova argued that Germany's failure to compensate non-Jewish survivors of the Siege of Leningrad in WWII, is a "breeding ground for the reincarnation of Nazism and
As the spectre of fascism haunts Europe again, MICHAL BONCZA recalls, on its 79th anniversary, one of the most heinous deeds perpetrated by its past adherents
Robert Hébras, 97, was one of only six survivors. He was shot but managed to escape by crawling out of a pile of corpses ready to be burnt to hide in a stable
The mystery of the tiny French village exterminated by the Nazis
Oradour-sur-Glane was flattened by the Nazis in 1944; its inhabitants massacred. With help from survivors, a new book unravels the atrocity
The silent village: Oradour-sur-Glane
On the morning of June 10, 1944, the French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was – like the rest of France – hopeful. It was just days after the Allies had successfully stormed the beaches of Normandy – D-Day on June 6 – following four years under the Nazi occupation and collaborationist regime of Vichy France.
“Word had been coming in all week about the successful Allied landings that had taken place earlier that week,” writes Robert Pike in his new book, Silent Village. “Everybody knew that there was still a long way to go, but an end might finally be in sight.”