Headlining article in this month’s The Atlantic: the Stolpersteine MONUMENTS TO THE UNTHINKABLE ”The first memorials to the Holocaust were the bodies in concentration camps.In January 1945, Soviet forces liberated Auschwitz, in southern Poland. As the German forces retreated, officers at Buchenwald, a camp in central Germany, crammed 4,480 prisoners into some 40 railcars in an effort to hide them from the Allies. They sent the train south to yet another camp: Dachau. Only a fifth of the prisoners survived the three-week journey.” Read full article. You Might Also Like Aus der Vergangenheit für die Zukunft lernen February 3, 2023 Faces for the Names Schwabing West – Agnesstraße am 29.04.2022 May 4, 2022 New Stolpersteine App revolutionizes Holocaust commemoration January 31, 2022