Karel Capek - most productive years corresponded with the existence of the first republic of Czechoslovakia (1918-1938). He wrote Talks with T.G. Masaryk, a Czech patriot and first president of Czechoslovakia and a regular guest at Čapek's Friday garden parties for Czech patriots. This extraordinary relationship between the great author and the great political leader is perhaps unique, and is known to have been an inspiration to Vaclav Havel. Karel Čapek died in the eve of World War II, soon after it became clear that the Western allies had refused to help to defend Czechoslovakia against Hitler. He refused to eat and refused to leave his country and died of double pneumonia. The Gestapo had ranked him as "public enemy number 2" in Czechoslovakia. His brother Josef Čapek, painter and also writer, died in.
Concentration camp - Concentration camp A concentration camp is a large detention centre for political opponents, specific ethnic or religious groups, or other groups of people. Some concentration camps are designed for the extermination of the interned (extermination camps), or to engage them in forced labor (labor camps), while others are designed merely for confinement. The term is most likely to be applied when those interned are civilians and are selected by their conformance to broad criteria without judicial process, as opposed to their being judged as individuals. In the English-speaking world, the term "concentration camp" was first used during the Boer War to describe camps in which thousands of Boer civilians, and black workers from their farms, died as a result of diseases due to hunger, thirst, and.
Bergen-Belsen - Bergen-Belsen Bergen-Belsen, sometimes referred to as just Belsen, was a German concentration camp in the Nazi era. It was located in Lower Saxony, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. It was started in 1940 as a POW camp. After 1941 about 20,000 Soviet soldiers were tortured and killed in the camp. Later (1942) Bergen-Belsen became a concentration camp; the SS took the command in April 1943. There were no gas chambers in Bergen-Belsen, since the mass murders took place in the camps further east; nevertheless thousands of Jews, homosexuals, and Roma and Sinti were tortured or starved to death. In 1945 the prisoners of other camps were brought to the front lines, since these camps were liberated by the Soviets. In overcrowded conditions disease and.
1945 - Eastern Europe against the Nazis. January 13 - Soviet patrol arrests Raoul Wallenberg in Hungary. January 16 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker January 17 - World War II: Soviets occupy Warsaw January 17 - Holocaust: Nazis begin to evacuate from Auschwitz concentration camp January 27 - The Red Army arrives at Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and find the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1-1.5 million people were murdered. January 28 - World War II: Supplies begin to reach China over the newly reopened Burma Road. January 30 - The Wilhelm Gustloff with more 10,000 refugees from Gotenhafen in the Danzig Bay sunk with three torpedos from the Soviet submarine S-13. More 9,300 drowned in the Baltic Sea. January 31 - Eddie Slovik is executed, the.
Anne Frank - Nazis in Amsterdam during World War II. Her family was betrayed and they were transported to a German concentration camp, where she died. After the war, her diary was published, making her world-famous. She was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the second daughter of Otto Heinrich Frank (May 12, 1889 - August 19, 1980) and his wife Edith Hollander (January 16, 1900 - January 6, 1945). She had an older sister, Margot Betti Frank (February 16, 1926 - March 1945). She and her family later had to move to Amsterdam to escape persecution by the Nazis. When she was barely 13 years old her family went into hiding in the Achterhuis, a small two-story space behind Otto Frank's company space. The door to the Achterhuis was hidden behind a bookcase..
Josef Capek - of children and of 'savages'. As cartoonist, he worked for Lidove Noviny, a newspaper based in Prague. Due to his critical attitude towards naziism and hitler, he was arrested after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939. He wrote 'Poems from a Concentration Camp' in the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, where he died in 1945..
Irma Grese - 1923 - December 13, 1945) was a supervisor at the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Born into a farming family, she left school in 1938 and after various casual jobs she was employed as a guard at Ravensbrück in 1942. She was transferred to Auschwitz in March 1943 and by the end of that year she was Oberaufseherin (Senior Supervisor), the second highest ranking woman at the camp, in charge of around 30,000 Jewish female prisoners. In January 1945 she briefly returned to Ravensbrück before ending her wartime career at Bergen-Belsen as an Arbeitsdienstführerin from March to April, being captured by the British. She was among the 44 accused of war crimes at the Belsen Trials. She was tried over the first period of the trials (September 17 -.
Israel Shahak - in Jerusalem, and an outspoken critic of the Israeli government and of Israeli society in general. He was born in Warsaw, Poland, survived the Belsen concentration camp, and emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1945, shortly before the establishment of the State of Israel. A critic of Zionism and a supporter of a Palestinian state, he wrote many books that are influential among some anti-Zionists and which argue that Israeli law and society contained entrenched attitudes of Jewish supremacy. In the 1970s, he began publishing translations of the Hebrew press into English, arguing that the English-language editions of these newspapers were being intentionally distorted for Western audiences. In 1993 he authored Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight of Three Thousand Years (ISBN 0745308198), in which he argued that traditional.
1945 in literature - Open Society and Its Enemies - Karl Popper The Policy King - Lewis A. H. Caldwell The Pursuit of Love - Nancy Mitford Rabbit Hill - Robert Lawson A Street in Bronzeville - Gwendolyn Brooks Stuart Little - E.B. White Surrender on Demand - Varian Fry That Hideous Strength - C. S. Lewis Tootle - Gertrude Crampton Two Solitudes - Hugh MacLennan The Wide House - Taylor Caldwell Births January 30 - Michael Dorris, author (+ 1997) April 27 - August Wilson, playwright April 30 - Annie Dillard July 9 - Dean R. Koontz Deaths January 22 - Else Lasker-Schuler, poet (* 1869) March 12 - Anne Frank, author of The Diary of Anne Frank, at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp April 9 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian (* 1906, murdered by German Nationalsozialists).
Albert Pierrepoint - by far the most prolific British hangman of the twentieth century. In office between 1932 and 1956, he is credited with having executed an estimated 433 men and 17 women, including 16 US soldiers at Shepton Mallet and some 200 Nazis after the Second World War. Albert's first execution as "Number One" was that of gangster Antonio "Babe" Mancini at Pentonville Prison, London, on 17 October 1941 - who said "Cheerio!" before the trap was sprung. Among his notable clients were: 13 German war criminals - Irma Grese, the youngest concentration camp guard to be executed for crimes at Belsen and Auschwitz (aged 22), Elisabeth Volkenrath (Belsen & Auschwitz), and Juana Bormann (Auschwitz), plus ten male prisoners including Josef Kramer, the Commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. All were executed at Hameln.
Amphetamine - Today it is officially admitted for treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and narcolepsy. General Info Amphetamine is a synthetic substance used to suppress appetite, control weight, treat narcolepsy and also ADHD. It is a commonly abused drug, usually bought on the street very impure or mixed with other drugs. Amphetamine can be snorted, taken orally, smoked, or injected. When the drug is snorted, smoked or injected, the effects can be felt within a few minutes, but the duration is usually lessened. When taken orally, the effects of the drug tend to feel “smoother” and are generally longer-lasting. Amphetamine was introduced in most of the world in the form of the pharmaceutical Benzedrine from the late 1920s. It was banned except for prescribed use in the late 1950s. It is also.
Bergen - (United States) Or perhaps: Bergen op Zoom (Netherlands) concentration camp Bergen-Belsen This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Ben Bril - member of the Dutch Nazi party, and he boycotted the 1936 games in Berlin. During the German occupation of the Netherlands, he was deported to Germany and interned at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. This is a stub..
Timeline of the Second World War - reduced to 18. 23: Second Battle of El Alamein begins with massive Allied bombardment of German opositions. November 1: Operation Supercharge, the Allied breakout at El Alamein, begins. 8: Operation Torch, the British and American invasion of North Africa, begins. 11: German forces occupy Vichy France. 13: Tobruk recaptured by British Eighth Army. 19: Operation Uranus, Soviet counterattack against German forces in Stalingrad, beings. December 7: Commando raid on Bordeaux harbour by British troops. 24: Admiral Darlan assassinated in Algiers. 26: Ferdinand Bonnier de la Chapelle is executed by firing squad for the the assassination of Admiral Darlan. 1943 January 14: Casablanca Conference of Allied leaders begins. 31: Large parts of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad, including Field Marshal Paulus, surrender. February 2: The remainder of the 6th Army surrenders..
Typhus - mistaken for dengue. Epidemic typhus is so called because it can cause epidemics associated with wars and natural disasters. The causative organism is Rickettsia prowazekii, transmitted by the human body louse (Pediculus humanus corporis). Symptoms are headache, fever, chills, exhaustion, and rash. The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, run by the Nazis, was notorious for being dirty and fostering epidemic typhus - killing Anne and Margot Frank and other Jewish prisoners. This form of typhus is also known as prison fever and as ship fever, because it becomes prevalent in crowded conditions in prisons and aboard ships. Endemic typhus is caused by Rickettsia typhi, transmitted by fleas infesting rats, and, less often, Rickettsia felis, transmitted by fleas carried by cats or opossums. Symptoms include headache, fever, chills, joint pain, nausea, vomiting, and cough..
Roberto Benigni - Beautiful (La Vita è bella), filmed in Cortona,about a man who tries to protect his son during his internment at a Nazi concentration camp, by telling him that the Holocaust is an elaborate game and he must adhere very carefully to the rules to win. Benigni's father had spent two years in a concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen, and La Vita è bella is based in part on his father's experiences; the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor (Benigni directed himself). Benigni also directed The Monster (Il Mostro), Il piccolo diavolo (with Walter Matthau) and Johnny Stecchino. With the very popular comic actor Massimo Troisi, he played in Non ci resta che piangere (nothing left for us, but crying), a fable.
Michael Bentine - World War II he served as an RAF Intelligence officer, and took part in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He had acted before the war, and afterwards he decided to become a comedian, specialising in off-the-wall humour, often involving cartoons and other types of animation. For example, a prominent feature of his series, It's a Square World, was the imaginary flea-circus. He was also a television presenter and writer. He appeared in the Goon Show film Down Among the Zed Men, and at the time seemed perhaps the most comfortable of the cast in working in a visual medium. In later life, his interests included parapsychology. This partly arose as a result of the premature death of his son. Appeared in: The Goon Show (1950-52) Round the Bend in Thirty.
Museum of the Order of St John - through the St. John Ambulance Brigade and running an Ophthalmic Hospital in Jerusalem. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 St. John's Gate 2 The Order collections 3 The St. John Ambulance collections 4 Contact info, external links 5 Opening hours 6 Getting there 7 References St. John's Gate The Museum is based in St. John's Gate, a 16th century gatehouse that once formed the entrance to the Priory of Clerkenwell. This dates back to the 11th century and was once the English headquarters of the Order of St. John. From here Hospitaller Knights went out to the Holy Land and later to Cyprus, Rhodes and Malta. They served in hospitals, treating people of any religion, and fought in order to defend Christian interests in the Holy Land and the Mediterranean. The Medieval.
List of people associated with World War II - as The Butcher of Lyon Bayerlein, Fritz, Panzer general Ludwig Beck, (1880-1944), General and member of the July Plot Johannes Blaskowitz, Colonel General Hugo Bleicher, German counter-intelligence operative in France Fedor von Bock, Field marshal Juana Bormann, (1903-1945), an SS officer at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen death camps. Martin Bormann, (1900-unknown), highest ranking Nazi party administrator Herta Bothe, camp guard at Bergen-Belsen Hans Bothmann (1911-1946), a Commandant of the Chelmno death camp in central Poland Dr. Karl Brandt, ran the German T-4 Euthanasia Program Eva Braun, (1912-1945), Hitler's mistress Wernher von Braun, (1912-1977), rocket scientist Prescott Bush, (1895-1972), banker and Nazi sympathizer Wilhelm Canaris, (1887-1945), chief of Abwehr Prof. Dr. Carl Clauberg conducted experiments on Jewish women at Auschwitz extermination camp John Demjanuk, notorious guard at the German extermination camps Rudolf Diels,.
List of science fiction novels - Delany Barefoot in the Head by Brian Aldiss Berserker by Fred Saberhagen Born With the Dead by Robert Silverberg Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Bug Jack Barron by Norman Spinrad Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr A Case of Conscience by James Blish The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke City by Clifford Simak The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester Destination: Void by Frank Herbert The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick.
