The Psychology of a Fascist Leader: Hitler’s ‘Blond Beast’ Reinhard Heydrich
In the latest of the series looking at ‘icon’s of the radical right, Senior Fellow Chris Webb takes a look at the life and murderous career of Reinhard Heydrich –…
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Chaim Rumkowski – Give Me Your Children Speech
Dawid Sierakowiak recorded in his diary that at 4 o’clock in the afternoon, on September 4, 1942, Chaim Rumkowski, the Chairman of the Jewish Council of Elders, and Warszawski, the…
David Sierakowiak’s Lodz Ghetto Diary
In the latest of a series looking at eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust, CARR Senior Fellow, Mr Chris Webb presents David Sierakowiak’s account of the Lodz Ghetto, describing the horrific…
Eye Witness Testimony of Gas Chambers built at Belzec – Stanislaw Kozak – 14 October 1945
In the latest of a series looking at eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust, CARR Senior Fellow, Mr Chris Webb presents the troubling account of Stanislaw Kozak, a local Pole who…
The Liberation of Auschwitz, January 27, 1945
In this latest CARR Insights Blog, Senior Fellow, Mr Chris Webb, provides a descriptive account of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau and what those events mean for the remembrance of the…
Aktion Erntefest – Lublin District – November 1943
In the latest in Senior Fellow, Chris Webb’s series on Jewish Resistance and Concentration Camps of the Holocaust, Webb looks into the biggest mass execution in one day, in the…
75th commemoration of the Sonderkommando Revolt at Auschwitz–Birkenau
During the Second World War, the Sonderkommando [Special Working Group] was forced by Auschwitz-Birkenau’s SS commandantur to carry out the ghastly work at the gas chambers. This included leading the…
The Eyewitness Account of Stanislaw Kon and Treblinka Death Camp Uprising – 2 August 1943
This August 2019 CARR blogpost follows the account of Stanislaw-Shulem Kon who was born in 1909 in Praszka, near Lodz, a city in which he resided until 1939. As a…
The Eyewitness Account of Abraham Lewin and the Warsaw Ghetto – July 1942
This July 2019 CARR Blog covers the period in the Warsaw Ghetto taken from the diary of Abraham Lewin from July 22, 1942. This is a moving account of a…
The Eyewitness Account of Tadeusz Pankiewicz and the Krakow Ghetto – June 1942
On June 4, 1942, it was the Jews of Krakow who faced the perils and uncertainties of a round-up. A Polish Catholic, Tadeusz Pankiewicz, witnessed the round-up from the window…