Since Snapchat stories expire after 24 hours, some of our footages will be retrievable permanently. Here you can find a best-of in three minutes.
Ernie Gross fought for his life as an inmate in Dachau. Don Greenbaum was a young soldier in the US Army – and liberated the concentration camp. Decades later the two men reunited. Our reporters met them for the first ever „sachor“ story in English.
MEHR ZUM HINTERGRUNDShe was only a child as she lost almost everyone of her relatives: We visited Maja Krapina in Minsk who talked about the Belarussian ghetto.
MEHR ZUM HINTERGRUNDWhat is the story behind the mysterious entrance? In Leipzig, Germany, an extraordinary monument reminds of the Holocaust. It tells the story of two Jewish families who were expropriated by the Nazis.
MEHR ZUM HINTERGRUNDBen Ferencz is 98 years old and the last surviving prosecutor of the Nuremberg Trials. He remembers what he saw when he liberated concentration camps with the US army – and he explains how he is still fighting for a more peaceful world.
MEHR ZUM HINTERGRUNDWe met Sophie, who volunteers in Haifa, Israel and teaches German to survivors of the Holocaust. We’ve talked with one of her students.
What is it like when you are suddenly face to face with the man who is regarded as the chief organizer of the genocide of the Jews? Gabriel Bach tells us about it
So far for now, our last story starts at the place where the most terrible Nazi crimes happened – at Auschwitz. However, it ends in Israel, with a woman, who tells us how she managed to survive this horror.
MEHR ZUM HINTERGRUNDIn this video, you get to know the woman who inspired us for this project – and you will know, what is most important to her nowadays.
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