Amsterdam through Anne Frank's eyes | Culture | DW.DE | 20.06 Since 1960, the Anne Frank Museum has been telling the history of the Holocaust through the personal accounts of the young Jewish girl who hid from the Nazis within its walls and was ultimately murdered in a concentration camp. Now the museum in Amsterdam has released a mobile phone application that shows users the city from Anne's perspective. The museum's digital media manager, Ita Amahorseija, says the aim of the app was to make Anne Frank's story relevant for the people living in Amsterdam today. Anne Frank was one of millions murdered in the Holocaust. The app shows historical photographs superimposed onto contemporary images Blending past and present The Anne's Amsterdam app aims to capture the history of the Dutch capital by bridging the past with the present, for instance, by showing contemporary photographs of the city superimposed with historical war-time images. Within 100 meters of each site, users can access multimedia information about it. Navigating history Enticing curiosity
Auschwitz survivor historian Arno Lustiger dies | Culture | DW.DE | 18.05 How must this man have appeared at the age of 40? How did he live, what was he thinking in Frankfurt after the war? Why do people remain silent for decades when they have so much to tell? Understanding the Holocaust Of course, the Holocaust is well documented in history books. Lustiger, a German-Jew of Polish descent, survived the Auschwitz concentration camp 40 years of silence on the Holocaust. It stuck in his mind for four decades. Filling the white flecks At some point, his experiences broke out. Arno Lustiger wanted to provide a counterpoint to this approach. In this spirit, Lustiger concerned himself with Spanish Civil War, the Jews in the Soviet Union, and with those in Germany who had resisted. University of life The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote that Lustiger had produced a "topography of Jewish resistance," and further: "Lustiger's work reminds us that historical recognition comes from that which would otherwise remain unsaid."
Exhibition documents German help for Jews | Culture | DW.DE | 11.05 After the end of the Second World War, Oskar Schindler, businessman and savior of more than 1200 Jews in Poland, lived a lonely and impoverished life in a small apartment in Frankfurt. Only a small number of people knew about his courageous efforts during the war. He could never have predicted he would one day be the subject of an American film. There were however less prominent people who, despite all the dangers, made attempts to help persecuted Jews during the period of National Socialist rule. Failed escape Nicole Jussek-Sutton stands before a photograph depicting a man in a swimming costume, arms outstretched, ready to spring into the water. "My mother survived in Germany by hiding in an isolated house. A small number of Jews survived the Holocuast using forged identity papers Gesture of solidarity It was ordinary German people who fought to help persecuted Jews during the war. The British consul general Robert T. Taboo subject Traitors
Miep Gies :: Two perspectives Anne Frank writing at her desk at home at the Merwedeplein, 1941The Secret Annex contains the collected diary entries that Anne Frank wrote between June 12, 1942 and August 1, 1944. The diary offers a window on the thoughts and feelings of an ordinary pubescent girl, living in an extraordinary situation: together with her parents and sister, one other family with a son her own age, and an elderly dentist, she spent more than 2 years living in hiding, invisible to the outside world, hoping to escape the inhumane fate that the Nazis had devised for Jews. Anne Frank describes, often humorously, sometimes touchingly, her sympathies and antipathies, her anxieties, her plans for the future, the events in the Secret Annex and her artificially restricted view of events in the rest of the world. Miep Gies and her husband Jan were part of this small group of helpers. Miep Gies at home reading, Juni 2001. The book by Miep Gies complements the diaries of Anne Frank.