• the Ludowy Theatre in Kraków gained countrywide notability in the People's Republic of Poland by staging performances evoking death camp experiences of Auschwitz?
• during World War II, Pierre-Marie Cardinal Gerlier asked that religious orders take Jewish children into hiding to avoid Nazi death camps?

Facts on topics related to Extermination camp

Auschwitz concentration camp

• Austrian socialist leader Robert Danneberg, one of the architects of 'Red Vienna', was killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942?
• Holocaust deniers have contacted former SS-Rottenführer Oskar Gröning to convince him that the things he witnessed at Auschwitz were hallucinations on his part?
• Polish resistance courier Maria Kotarba became an "Angel of Auschwitz" by smuggling food and medicine, caring and cooking for Jewish prisoners in hiding?
• SS-Oberscharführer Ludwig Plagge, executed for his crimes at Auschwitz, was one of the first SS men to be deployed there?
• SS-Untersturmführer Hans Stark admitted that during the mass gassing of prisoners at Auschwitz, he inserted the Zyklon B into the gas chamber himself when a medical orderly did not turn up?
• Arthur Dodd, a British prisoner of war during World War II, was an eye-witness to the horrors of Auschwitz?
• Benjamin Fondane, known as a Symbolist poet in Romania, a Jewish existentialist thinker in France and an avant-garde filmmaker in Argentina, was killed at Auschwitz in late 1944?
• Grigol Peradze was a Georgian ecclesiastic figure who was gassed in Auschwitz?
• Ruth Maier, an Austrian Jew who found refuge in Norway until her deportation and death at Auschwitz in 1942, has been called "Norway's Anne Frank"?
• as the SS struggled to keep up sorting the valuables plundered from prisoners at Auschwitz, Karl Möckel stated that fifteen to twenty suitcases of them were sent to the WVHA quarterly?

Holocaust denial

• Holocaust deniers have contacted former SS-Rottenführer Oskar Gröning to convince him that the things he witnessed at Auschwitz were hallucinations on his part?
• holocaust denier David Irving accidentally referred to the judge as 'Mein Führer' in his libel suit against historian Deborah Lipstadt?
• Rabbi Leon Klenicki called the We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah significant in establishing that "the deniers of the Holocaust in Europe now have to deal with the Vatican"?
• renowned Holocaust scholar Robert Jan van Pelt says that the first Holocaust deniers were the Nazis themselves?

Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp

• Polish poet Adolf Fierla survived Dachau and Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps?
• Witold Dzierżykraj-Morawski, a colonel of the Polish Army, was one of the many prisoners murdered by Nazi Germany in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp?
• because of his patriotic songs, Czech songwriter Karel Hašler died in Mauthausen concentration camp?
• the most prominent leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia within the Polish minority, Karol Śliwka, died in the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in 1943?