An SAS hero’s remarkable wartime life is being brought to light in a new biography. Major Peter Weaver, a veteran from Swanage, served in some of the most secret and dangerous operations of the Second ...

Eger — clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and Holocaust survivor — died April 27 at her home in La Jolla. She was 98.

Daniela Gerson was surprised to learn that most survivors, like her grandparents, survived not in concentration camps, ghettos or forests, but in the mountains of Sibera.

Are U.S. immigration agents sending migrants and asylum seekers to “detention centers” or “internment camps”? Are they being held in “processing centers” or “concentration camps”? It depends on who ...

The phrase “concentration camp” is freighted with dark historical meaning. Most people hear it and instinctively think of concentration camps used by the Nazis to exterminate Jews and other minority ...

As Allied forces crossed the English Channel during the D-Day invasion of June 1944, some 10,000 intelligence officers known as T-Forces were right behind the advance battalions. Their mission: seize ...

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The term “concentration camp” evokes images of gas chambers, gruesome medical experiments, skeletal prisoners and the sadistic jackbooted guards of the Nazi SS. These were the camps of the Holocaust, ...

When Soviet pilot Mikhail Devyataev was captured and sent to a Nazi concentration camp, escape seemed impossible—until he and a group of fellow prisoners devised a daring plan that defied all logic.

Frederick Polak will share the story of his parents, who were Dutch Holocaust survivors. His parents, Jack and Ina Polak, fell in love by smuggling letters between Nazi concentration camps. Polak ...

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