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Historian Jonathan Petropoulos investigates the life of Bruno Lohse and his role in the Nazi looting operation, interviewing Lohse himself, as well as curators, art investigators, Lohse’s associates, and descendants of the victims of Nazi art theft. With a look at stunning masterpieces and a ...

A roundup of Secrets in the News for March 2021. 2,000-year-old chariot unearthed at Pompeii If you like this, you might like: Nero's Sunken City Live Science: An ornate four-wheeled chariot of iron, bronze and wood that archaeologists think was drawn by a team of ...

Secrets of the Dead: Bombing Auschwitz is now streaming on, pbs.org/secrets and the PBS Video app to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. When author, educator and Holocaust survivor Max Eisen talks about his experience in Nazi-occupied Europe, he starts by remembering life ...

On December 3, 1944, The Washington Post published an editorial on the atrocities in Auschwitz with the headline “Genocide,” marking the first time the word appeared in a national newspaper.

Secrets of the Dead: Bombing Auschwitz premieres Tuesday, January 21 at 9|8c on PBS, pbs.org/secrets and the PBS Video app to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. As the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration ...

In May 1944, Rabbi Michael Weissmandl sent the Auschwitz Protocol, along with a plea for help and a demand for Allied air forces to bomb Auschwitz, to Roswell McClelland at the War Refugee Board in Switzerland.

In 1944, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Their harrowing testimonies and detailed sketches of the camp's mass extermination practices exposed the "dark heart" of Nazi-occupied Poland.

Secrets of the Dead: Bombing Auschwitz premiered Tuesday, January 21 at 9 p.m. on PBS, pbs.org/secrets and the PBS Video app to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Synopsis In April 1944, Jewish prisoners Rudolf Vrba and Alfred ...

Secrets of the Dead is returning this summer with a much-anticipated encore and two brand new episode premieres. Check out the lineup for the Summer of Secrets on PBS: Secrets of the Dead: Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb Encores Tuesday, June 18 at 8 p.m. on PBS ...

See stills and images of individuals featured in Secrets of the Dead: Bugging Hitler's Soldiers