Besa: A Code of Honor. Muslim Albanians who Rescued Jews Dur

After Hitler’s rise to power in 1933, many Jews found refuge in Albania. Following the German occupation in 1943, the Albanian population, in an extraordinary act, refused to comply with the occupier’s orders to turn over lists of Jews residing within the country’s borders. Moreover, the various governmental agencies provided many Jewish families w

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Germany charges accused Nazi guard Demjanjuk

German prosecutors charged suspected death camp guard John Demjanjuk Monday with helping to kill nearly 28,000 Jews in World War II, setting the stage for what could be Germany's last big Nazi war crimes. Demjanjuk tops the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of its 10 most-wanted suspected war criminals.

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Schindler’s List Found in Australia

Oskar Schindler was popularized by the 1993 biographical film by Steven Spielberg. It tells the story of a German businessman who saved the lives of 1,200 of Jews during the holocaust. It is based on the Thomas Keneally novel entitled Schindler’s Ark.

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Web site documents trace lives of Jews worldwide - Boston.co

NEW YORK—A new online collection of millions of historic Jewish records is helping families trace their personal history. The documents on Ancestry.com include Schindler's List -- the names of almost 2,000 Jews working for a German who employed them to save them. Their story was told in the Oscar award winning film.

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Happy Birthday, Oscar Schindler

Oscar Schindler—Nazi party member, womanizer, war profiteer and savior of approximately 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust—was born on April 28, 1908 in Zwittau, a German-speaking city in Czechoslovakia. Schindler is now revered as a hero; he is the subject of a prizewinning book and an Oscar-winning film, “Schindler’s List."

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Oskar Schindler Signed Photograph Up For Auction

The last remaining autographed photo of holocaust hero OSKAR SCHINDLER is to be sold at auction. The German industrialist, made famous in Steven Spielberg's Oscar-winning Schindler's List, was responsible for saving 1,400 Jews from death during World War II

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