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Archive - 2010

January 11th

Anne Frank diary guardian, Miep Gies, passes away

Submitted by Holocaust Aware... on Tue, 01/12/2010 - 12:01am

Miep Gies, the woman who helped hide Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and who, later, safe guarded Anne's diary, has passed away at age 100.

"We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need."

via BBC News
via CNN

January 6th

A Pilgrimage to Belarus

Submitted by Holocaust Aware... on Wed, 01/06/2010 - 6:26pm

Katharina von Kellenbach, a Holocaust scholar and niece of an SS officer who oversaw the death of 30,000 Jews, returned to the Belorussian city of Pinsk.

via Aish