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Yom HaShoah and everyday genocide

For the historian Mary Fulbrook, the history of the small town of Będzin hits close to home. Her mother was a refugee from Nazi Germany and a close friend to the wife of Udo Klausa, a one-time civilian administrator in that small town so close to the infamous concentration camp Auschwitz. What role did Klausa, as countless local functionaries across the Third Reich, play in facilitating Nazi policy? Fulbrook traveled to Bedzin with her son to film a series of videos exploring the subject as a companion to her book, A Small Town Near Auschwitz: Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust.

What is the history of Nazi-occupied Będzin?

What was the role of the civilian administration during the occupation of Bedzin?

What was it like to live in Nazi occupied Bedzin?

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  1. vonLmo

    #EverydayGenocide Pay no attention to the mass murder of the Palestinian people by Israelis as they steal the West Bank for their “lebensraum”. There is no correlation whatsoever.

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