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Why was there a women's orchestra in Auschwitz, and what can that help us understand human resilience? In this deeply moving episode of the show, I speak with Anne Sebba — renowned biographer, historian, and journalist — about one of the Holocaust's most extraordinary and little-known stories: the Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Anne's latest book tells the story of how a group of female prisoners were forced to form an orchestra in one of the most brutal Nazi concentration camps. They played not for celebration or escape, but as part of the machinery of terror — and yet, through music, they found a way to survive. As Anne shares, her journey into this story began with a startling personal discovery: her father was present at Bergen-Belsen shortly after its liberation. That visceral connection led her to uncover the story of Alma Rosé, the orchestra's conductor and the niece of Gustav Mahler, who used discipline and musical brilliance to save lives. We talk about the complexities of human behaviour, the ethical dilemmas of survival, and the way music — even when twisted into a tool of torture — remained a powerful expression of the human spirit. We also explore how Anne approached telling this story as someone who is neither a survivor nor the child of survivors. She explains the challenges of working with conflicting testimonies, the emotional toll of researching this subject, and why she took piano lessons while writing the book. Above all, this episode is about the resilience of the women who played in the orchestra, and the importance of telling stories that allow us to see history not just in abstract terms, but through individual lives. 

Eighty years ago, on April 15, 1945, the notorious Nazi death camp Bergen-Belsen, in Germany, was liberated by Allied troops. To their horror, British artillery crews discovered about 60,000 starving and deathly ill survivors, as well as 10,000 corpses lying, unburied, on the ground. It was a sight and smell that the late Jack Marcovitch never forgot. The Ottawa veteran had only turned 22 when he arrived there as an army private in the closing weeks of the Second World War. His family believes he played a role in one the war's most iconic scenes: the arrest of Bergen-Belsen's commandant, Josef Kramer, notoriously dubbed "The Beast of Belsen". Marcovitch rarely spoke about his experiences at Bergen-Belsen, where Anne Frank had died of typhus just a few months earlier. Now, on the milestone anniversary of the camp's liberation, Marcovitch's daughters—Linda Eisenberg and Gloria Borts—join The CJN Daily to share what their father brought home with him and how the trauma marked him for life. Related links Watch Jack Marcovitch at Bergen Belsen on an old CBC interview. Learn about some of the Canadians who survived Bergen-Belsen including the late Cantor Moshe Kraus of Ottawa, Learn about some of the Canadian soldiers who helped the survivors of Bergen-Belsen, on the Veterans Affairs Canada website, as well as about Bernie Delson, and Sol Goldberg. Credits Host and writer: Ellin Bessner (@ebessner) Production team: Zachary Kauffman (producer), Andrea Varsany (producer),Michael Fraiman (executive producer), Marc Weisblott (editorial director) Music: Dov Beck-Levine Support our show Subscribe to The CJN newsletter Donate to The CJN (+ get a charitable tax receipt) Subscribe to The CJN Daily (Not sure how? Click here)

This week we focus on Germany and the reasons for its decline as well as the ongoing Trump impact - including the rise of the AFD;  Richard Dimbleby and Belsen; Anti-semitic nurses in Australia; Paula White and the White House Faith Office;  David Fletcher and Liam Goligher;  Are surf boards sexist?;  Is Lego anti- LGBT? Keir Starmer takes a HIV test; Elections in Ecuador;  Joe Rogan on USAID;   USAID funds Islamic extremism;  Selling out Britain - Chagos; Julia Hartley Brewer and the 'kindness of Hamas';  German economy tanked by Green polices; Hunter Valley Coal; the new Super Bowl vibe; the history of wine and beer; clergyman claims Saviour is an offensive term; public to advise on next Archbishop of Canterbury; and Feedback  with music from Rammstein, Beethoven, the Beach Boys, The Polka Brothers,  John Lennon, U2,  and Bach.  

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The Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp (U Toronto Press, 2015) documents what they saw and how they came to terms with those images over the course of the next seventy years. On the basis of research in more than seventy archives in four countries, Mark Celinscak analyses how these military personnel struggled with the intense experience of the camp; how they attempted to describe what they had seen, heard, and felt to those back home; and how their lives were transformed by that experience. He also brings to light the previously unacknowledged presence of hundreds of Canadians among the camp's liberators, including noted painter Alex Colville. Distance from the Belsen Heap examines the experiences of hundreds of British and Canadian eyewitnesses to atrocity, including war artists, photographers, medical personnel, and chaplains. A study of the complicated encounter between these Allied soldiers and the horrors of the Holocaust, Distance from the Belsen Heap is a testament to their experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp (U Toronto Press, 2015) documents what they saw and how they came to terms with those images over the course of the next seventy years. On the basis of research in more than seventy archives in four countries, Mark Celinscak analyses how these military personnel struggled with the intense experience of the camp; how they attempted to describe what they had seen, heard, and felt to those back home; and how their lives were transformed by that experience. He also brings to light the previously unacknowledged presence of hundreds of Canadians among the camp's liberators, including noted painter Alex Colville. Distance from the Belsen Heap examines the experiences of hundreds of British and Canadian eyewitnesses to atrocity, including war artists, photographers, medical personnel, and chaplains. A study of the complicated encounter between these Allied soldiers and the horrors of the Holocaust, Distance from the Belsen Heap is a testament to their experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp (U Toronto Press, 2015) documents what they saw and how they came to terms with those images over the course of the next seventy years. On the basis of research in more than seventy archives in four countries, Mark Celinscak analyses how these military personnel struggled with the intense experience of the camp; how they attempted to describe what they had seen, heard, and felt to those back home; and how their lives were transformed by that experience. He also brings to light the previously unacknowledged presence of hundreds of Canadians among the camp's liberators, including noted painter Alex Colville. Distance from the Belsen Heap examines the experiences of hundreds of British and Canadian eyewitnesses to atrocity, including war artists, photographers, medical personnel, and chaplains. A study of the complicated encounter between these Allied soldiers and the horrors of the Holocaust, Distance from the Belsen Heap is a testament to their experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

The Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp (U Toronto Press, 2015) documents what they saw and how they came to terms with those images over the course of the next seventy years. On the basis of research in more than seventy archives in four countries, Mark Celinscak analyses how these military personnel struggled with the intense experience of the camp; how they attempted to describe what they had seen, heard, and felt to those back home; and how their lives were transformed by that experience. He also brings to light the previously unacknowledged presence of hundreds of Canadians among the camp's liberators, including noted painter Alex Colville. Distance from the Belsen Heap examines the experiences of hundreds of British and Canadian eyewitnesses to atrocity, including war artists, photographers, medical personnel, and chaplains. A study of the complicated encounter between these Allied soldiers and the horrors of the Holocaust, Distance from the Belsen Heap is a testament to their experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/german-studies

The Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp (U Toronto Press, 2015) documents what they saw and how they came to terms with those images over the course of the next seventy years. On the basis of research in more than seventy archives in four countries, Mark Celinscak analyses how these military personnel struggled with the intense experience of the camp; how they attempted to describe what they had seen, heard, and felt to those back home; and how their lives were transformed by that experience. He also brings to light the previously unacknowledged presence of hundreds of Canadians among the camp's liberators, including noted painter Alex Colville. Distance from the Belsen Heap examines the experiences of hundreds of British and Canadian eyewitnesses to atrocity, including war artists, photographers, medical personnel, and chaplains. A study of the complicated encounter between these Allied soldiers and the horrors of the Holocaust, Distance from the Belsen Heap is a testament to their experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/jewish-studies

The Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp (U Toronto Press, 2015) documents what they saw and how they came to terms with those images over the course of the next seventy years. On the basis of research in more than seventy archives in four countries, Mark Celinscak analyses how these military personnel struggled with the intense experience of the camp; how they attempted to describe what they had seen, heard, and felt to those back home; and how their lives were transformed by that experience. He also brings to light the previously unacknowledged presence of hundreds of Canadians among the camp's liberators, including noted painter Alex Colville. Distance from the Belsen Heap examines the experiences of hundreds of British and Canadian eyewitnesses to atrocity, including war artists, photographers, medical personnel, and chaplains. A study of the complicated encounter between these Allied soldiers and the horrors of the Holocaust, Distance from the Belsen Heap is a testament to their experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies

The Allied soldiers who liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 were faced with scenes of horror and privation. With breathtaking thoroughness, Distance from the Belsen Heap: Allied Forces and the Liberation of a Nazi Concentration Camp (U Toronto Press, 2015) documents what they saw and how they came to terms with those images over the course of the next seventy years. On the basis of research in more than seventy archives in four countries, Mark Celinscak analyses how these military personnel struggled with the intense experience of the camp; how they attempted to describe what they had seen, heard, and felt to those back home; and how their lives were transformed by that experience. He also brings to light the previously unacknowledged presence of hundreds of Canadians among the camp's liberators, including noted painter Alex Colville. Distance from the Belsen Heap examines the experiences of hundreds of British and Canadian eyewitnesses to atrocity, including war artists, photographers, medical personnel, and chaplains. A study of the complicated encounter between these Allied soldiers and the horrors of the Holocaust, Distance from the Belsen Heap is a testament to their experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

Offerta Black Friday di NordVPN! Vai su https://nordvpn.com/dentrolastoria per ottenere l'esclusivo sconto Black Friday + 4 mesi extra sui piani biennali +30gg soddisfatti o rimborsati! Il nostro canale Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1vziHBEp0gc9gAhR740fCw Sostieni DENTRO LA STORIA su Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dentrolastoria Abbonati al canale: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1vziHBEp0gc9gAhR740fCw/join Il nostro store in Amazon: https://www.amazon.it/shop/dentrolastoria Sostienici su PayPal: https://paypal.me/infinitybeat Dentro La Storia lo trovi anche qui: https://linktr.ee/dentrolastoria Capelli biondi con i boccoli, occhi azzurri e profondi, viso grazioso ma sempre indurito in una espressione mascolina. Quando sorrideva, Irma Grese lo faceva per piacere sadico: supervisore dell'infermeria di Auschwitz sotto la guida del perfido dottor Mengele e poi capo-guardiana a Bergen-Belsen, dedicò tre anni della sua breve vita a frustare, seviziare, torturare e uccidere uomini e donne con i metodi più crudeli. Catturata dagli inglesi, non volle mai esprimere pentimento per quanto fatto nei campi di sterminio. Al contrario: volle ribadire sino all'estremo momento la sua cieca fede nella barbarie nazista. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How has American tourism to Nazi concentration camps influenced the ways in which people remember the Holocaust and Nazi atrocities? In this episode, Anne van Mourik (NIOD) sits down with Leonie Werle (Freie Universität Berlin) to explore this question. As early as 1948, American tourists started to visit German concentration camps, with magazines even promoting Germany as the land of ‘Bach and Belsen'. What did this early postwar tourism to the camps look like? Is it a form of dark tourism? Why were the camps often experienced as disappointing by American tourists? And why do people so often compare the Holocaust and concentration camps to present-day events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic or other crises? Credits image in logo: Visitors view a photomural of corpses piled on the ground in the newly liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at the "Lest We Forget" exhibition at the Library of Congress. Photographer: John MuellerDate: 1945 June 30

Stephen Kapos is an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor from Budapest who has been protesting against Israel's war on Gaza, which he describes as not only genocide but a holocaust. Stephen is a member of Holocaust Survivors Against Genocide. Stephen lost 15 members of his extended family in the Holocaust and his father was interned in Belsen & Theresienstadt. He settled in London but when he visited Israel was “shocked” by the racism exhibited by Israelis, including his relatives who had also survived the Holocaust. Stephen joined The Labour Party in 1997, becoming an activist and office-holder at various local levels. Stephen resigned from the Labour party, after penning a widely circulated letter, after the Labour party warned him they would “investigate” him if he spoke at a leftist organization on Holocaust Memorial Day. He is a member of Camden branch of PSC ( Palestine Solidarity Campsign ),Camden & Islington Momentum ( affiliate of the Labour Party) and lately of the small network ‘Holocaust Survivors and Descendents Against Genocide.' ***Please support The Katie Halper Show *** For bonus content, exclusive interviews, to support independent media & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Get your Katie Halper Show Merch here! https://katiehalper.myspreadshop.com/all Follow Katie on Twitter: @kthalps

Russell Kent is a author and researcher into the JFK assassination but is currently working on a new upcoming book about WW2 war crime trials including Nuremberg and how other trials were handled in different countries in particular the U.S. and British trials. Russell joins me again to discuss more about the Belsen trials and some other trials that dealt with camps like Ravensbrück and Neuengamme and the conditions in which they were tried. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/out-of-the-blank/support

Surnommée la "hyène d'Auschwitz" ou la "bête de Belsen", Irma Grese est l'une des figures de tortionnaires les plus sinistres qu'ait pu produire l'Allemagne nazie.Irma Grese naît en 1923 dans une famille d'agriculteurs. Sa mère se suicide durant son adolescence. Élève médiocre et solitaire, elle entre dans la "Ligue des jeunes filles allemandes", un mouvement de jeunesse nazi.Puis, après avoir exercé divers métiers, dont celui d'aide-soignante dans un hôpital de la SS, elle intègre, en 1942, une école formant des gardiennes de camps de concentration.En 1942, Irma Grese débute sa carrière de gardienne auxiliaire à Ravensbruck, un camp de concentration pour femmes. Elle y fait sans doute fait la connaissance de Dorothea Binz, une autre geôlière SS, connue pour sa cruauté sadique.Se sentant apparemment dans son élément, Irma Grese est mutée a Auschwitz en 1943, et connaît une rapide promotion. Elle devient en effet surveillante-chef. C'est dans ces fonctions qu'elle montrera la férocité qui lui valut ses divers surnoms.Durant le procès de la tortionnaire nazie, en 1945, les survivantes raconteront les sévices qu'elle infligeait aux détenues. Il est question de tortures diverses, de détenues rouées de coups ou froidement abattues à coups de révolver, de chiens lâchés contre les prisonnières ou d'interminables flagellations. Par ailleurs, Irma Grese aurait participé personnellement à la sélection des détenues pour la chambre à gaz.Les rescapées parlent aussi d'abus sexuels. Qu'elle mutile les détenues, en leur coupant les seins, ou qu'elle assiste aux expérimentations médicales, la "hyène d'Auschwitz" semblait éprouver une véritable excitation sexuelle au spectacle de la souffrance.Comme d'autres gardiennes, Irma Grese nie les faits qui lui sont reprochés lors de son procès. Elle prétend que si une détenue se pliait aux règles fixées par la direction du camp, elle n'était pas inquiétée.Fidèle jusqu'au bout à ses convictions nazies, elle ose déclarer qu'elle se devait d'éliminer ce qu'elle continue d'appeler des "éléments antisociaux".Reconnue coupable, Irma Grese est finalement pendue, avec 12 autres condamnés, le 13 décembre 1945. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

My guest this week is Sally Bernard who was a schoolteacher for many years, currently living in Deal, Kent. She originally wanted to run an antique shop but her father played a key role in the career route that she followed. Sally talks about her involvement with Sure Start, and why she disagreed with the late Glenys Kinnock on reading by osmosis. We learn why Sally wanted to be a better teacher than the teachers who had taught her, and Sally also reflects on the nature of the teaching experience. She went to the Open University and worked as a community education officer at an aquarium in Bermuda. Sally discusses growing up in Bristol and looking after international friends from various countries in Europe when she was young. Her father had been a medical officer in Belsen and her mother had been a nurse. We talk about the role that technology plays and how she still sends letters and we find out why New Zealand was such a precious place for Sally and her husband Adrian to live, and how it matched their expectations. We find out why Sally likes revisiting the past and why she doesn't have any regrets. We also talk about the nature of home and whether she would consider any places more ‘home' than others. She remembers time off from work when she was living in London to see a very bloody production of Julius Caesar at the Barbican, and we turn to the nature of private education, and why there weren't many good role models for Sally in her day. The best one was a dance teacher who was fired because she had taught her pupils dances from West Side Story. Then, at the end of the interview we discover why Sally is neither a looking back nor a looking forward type of person.

In this episode Greg Lambert chats with Richard Brook about his experiences of D Day, his scrape with a German V2 rocket and discovering the atrocities at Belsen concentration camp.

Anfang 1942 wurde im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz Birkenau ein Frauenlager eingerichtet, in welchem weibliche Personen, die die Selektionen überlebten, unter menschenunwürdigen Bedingungen interniert wurden. Die Aufseherinnen standen ihren männlichen Kollegen hinsichtlich Brutalität und Skrupellosigkeit in nichts nach und waren für unzählige Misshandlungen und Ermordungen verantwortlich, doch kaum eine war annähernd so gefürchtet und berüchtigt wie Irma Grese. Grese wurde mit gerade einmal 18 Jahren KZ-Aufseherin, und wurde von Zeitzeugen als äußerst hübsch beschrieben, doch unter der Fassade verbarg sich eine eiskalte und sadistische Person, welche ihre Position für die grausamsten Verbrechen ausnutzen sollte. Insassen wurden von ihr wegen kleinsten Vergehen erschossen oder zu Tode geprügelt, verletzte Personen wurden von ihren mitgeführten Schäferhunden angefallen und zerfetzt, Grese führte zudem meist eine Peitsche oder einen Knüppel mit sich und schlug mit diesen teilweise auch willkürlich auf Inhaftierte ein. Die Aufseherin pflegte ein enges Verhältnis zum Lagerarzt Josef Mengele, war mit diesem an diversen Selektionen der ankommenden Häftlinge beteiligt und schickte zehntausende Menschen in die Gaskammern. Aufgrund ihrer Taten sowie ihres Aussehens wurde Grese der Spitzname „Hyäne von Auschwitz“ oder auch „Schöne Bestie von Belsen“ verliehen. Nach dem Krieg erregte ihr Fall große mediale Aufmerksamkeit, die Welt fragte sich wie eine so junge und unschuldig aussehende Frau solch grausame Taten vollbringen konnte.

Tout autant que leurs homologues masculins, les femmes peuvent choisir la cruauté, la perversité, et intégrer ces pulsions dans un cadre idéologique. Elles peuvent se révéler même dans l'atrocité. Et l'exercice de la violence a pu constituer le socle à une certaine émancipation professionnelle… Ainsi, elles sont nombreuses, celles qui embrassent l'idéologie mortifère du 3e Reich. D'ailleurs, à l'occasion des élections législatives de juillet 32, les femmes allemandes apportent près de 7 millions de voix au Parti National Socialiste d'Hitler. Elles jouent un rôle déterminant dans la construction et le fonctionnement du régime nazis. Et pourtant, En réalité, comme le rappelle l'historienne américaine Wendy Lower, presque toutes les histoires de l'Holocauste ont laissé de côté les femmes, leurs responsabilités. Parce que la banalité du mal n'est pas l'apanage des hommes, le prochain épisode de notre série est consacré à l'une des rares femmes nazie jamais condamnées : Irman Grese, l'abominable gardienne des camps de concentration nazis de Ravensbrück, Auschwitz et de Bergen-Belsen, condamnée à mort, à seulement 22 ans. Notre invitée dans cet épisode : Barbara Necek, documentariste, réalisatrice et autrice. Spécialisée dans l'histoire du nazisme et le travail de mémoire, elle a notamment réalisé « le Procès d'Auschwitz-la fin du silence » (2017), « Les femmes du Troisième Reich » (2018) et « Les résistants de Mauthausen » (2021). Femmes bourreaux est son premier ouvrage, paru aux éditions Grasset en 2022. Un remerciement particulier est adressé à Didier Chauvet, auteur d'un ouvrage particulièrement documenté, "Irma Grese et le procès de Belsen", paru chez l'Harmattan en 2017. Merci pour votre écoute Retrouvez tous les contenus de la RTBF sur notre plateforme Auvio.be Et si vous avez apprécié ce podcast, n'hésitez pas à nous donner des étoiles ou des commentaires, cela nous aide à le faire connaître plus largement.

Dette er en live-udgave af Samfundstanker, optaget foran et publikum i CEPOS' lokaler torsdag d. 27. april, hvor Martin Ågerup diskuterede EU's fremtid med Dalibor Rohac, forfatter til flere bøger om bl.a. EU, senest ‘Governing the EU in an Age of Division'. Få internationale organisationer associeres i højere grad med idéen om at skabe fred og fremskridt som EU, men sammenhængskraften er udfordret. På den ene side gennemtvinges en stadig tættere union, på den anden side fravælger medlemslande at gennemføre det besluttede. Er der brug for en ny opskrift for samarbejdet? Dalibor Rohac er slovak og Senior Fellow i Foreign and Defense Policy ved den amerikanske tænketank American Enterprise Institute i USA. Podcasten foregår på engelsk.Kontakt til podcastvært: Martin@cepos.dkOptaget den 27. april 2023. Link til ‘Governing the EU in an Age of Division':https://www.aei.org/research-products/book/governing-the-eu-in-an-age-of-division/Jesus Fernandez Villaverde's omtalte papers:https://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pfe14.htmDalibor Rohacs papers and researchhttps://www.aei.org/profile/dalibor-rohac/

Die Konzentrationslager dienten der Ermordung von Millionen Menschen nicht akzeptierter Ethnien, der Beseitigung politischer Gegner, der Vernichtung durch Zwangsarbeit oder der Durchführung von grausamen medizinischen Menschenversuchen. Im Konzentrationslagersystem wurden die meisten KZs von einem sogenannten Lagerkommandanten geleitet, welcher die Kontrolle über alle Häftlinge und Aufseher besaß. Josef Kramer war im Laufe seiner Karriere der Kommandant von insgesamt 3 Konzentrationslagern, unteranderem in Auschwitz-Birkenau und Bergen-Belsen. Kramer war an der Ermordung von Hunderttausenden Menschen beteiligt, und beging in den Lagern abscheuliche Kriegsverbrechen. Gegen Kriegsende war Kramer der Kommandant von Bergen-Belsen, in welchem allein in den letzten Kriegswochen zehntausende Menschen starben und sich die Leichen nur so stapelten, weswegen Kramer auch der Spitzname Bestie von Belsen verliehen wurde. In diesem Video geht es um die grausamen Verbrechen von Josef Kramer und der nach dem Krieg stattgefundenen Anklage sowie Bestrafung dieses Verbrechers.

The BBC's Richard Dimbleby was the first reporter to enter the liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. His report describing the unimaginable horror he found was for many listeners around the world the first time they had heard the truth of what it was like to have endured life and death under the Nazis. An estimated 70,000 people died in the camp. The broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby reflects on the impact of the report on his father and why the BBC was reluctant to broadcast it at first. Produced by Josephine McDermott. This programme contains distressing details. (Photo: Prisoners at Belsen. Credit: Getty Images)

The Beautiful Beast. The Blond Angel of Hell. The Hyena of Auschwitz. The Bitch of Belsen. These are just a few of the nicknames given by concentration camp prisoners to Irma Grese, one of the most reviled figures in Holocaust history. By her early 20s, Grese was one of the most feared female Nazis, inflicting horror on her subjects in camps across Germany and Poland, including at the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau. Join me as I look at the making of a monster. Theme music: ⁣ Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley⁣ Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com⁣ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)⁣ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The Beautiful Beast. The Blond Angel of Hell. The Hyena of Auschwitz. The Bitch of Belsen. These are just a few of the nicknames given by concentration camp prisoners to Irma Grese, one of the most reviled figures in Holocaust history. By her early 20s, Grese was one of the most feared female Nazis, inflicting horror on her subjects in camps across Germany and Poland, including at the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau. Join me as I look at the making of a monster. Theme music: ⁣ Undertow by Scott Buckley | https://soundcloud.com/scottbuckley⁣ Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com⁣ Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)⁣ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Rabbi Jonathan Romain talks about his work as an Agony Uncle. Jeremy Irons reads Psalm 92. Ernie Rea introduces a poem about Belsen. MUSIC 1. Cambridge Singers - the Lord bless you and keep you 2. Maddy Prior - The God of Abraham Praise. 3. City of Chester Male Voice Choir - Sweet the work my god and King. 4. Darlene Zschech - My Jesus my Saviour.

Neuroscientishttps://justimagine.co.uk/review/the-boy-who-didnt-want-to-die/t and Holocaust survivor, Peter Lantos, has written a children's book about his childhood experience of being sent, aged 5 years old,  with his family from Hungary to Bergen Belsen.  In this episode, he talks to Nikki Gamble about his reasons for writing a children's book, his experiences, and his hopes for future generations.Read our review of The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die on the Just Imagine websitePurchase  The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die from our bookselling partner Best Books for SchoolsA story of survival - and of enduring hope in the face of unspeakable hardship - on an extraordinary journey, made by Peter, a boy of five, through war-torn Europe in 1944 and 45. Peter soon realises that this new adventure is really a nightmare, watching bombs falling from the blue sky outside Vienna, and learning maths from his mother in Belsen.Support the showThank you for listening. If you enjoyed this podcast, please support us by subscribing to our channel. And if you are interested in the books we have featured, purchasing from our online bookshop Bestbooksforschools.comIn the Reading Corner is presented by Nikki Gamble, Director of Just Imagine. It is produced by Alison Hughes.Follow us on Youtube for more author events YouTube.com/@nikkigamble1For general news and updates, follow us on Twitter @imaginecentreFull details about the range of services we provide can be found on our website www.justimagine.co.uk

Don Sheppard - From Laindon to The Normandy BeachesDon Sheppard was born on 4th May 1920. 2 years after the end of the 1st World War,19years after the passing of Queen Victoria.Don lost his father at the age of 16 and when he was 19 the war in Europe had started. Don was called to arms in 1940 and was eventually part of the force that fought in North Africa, Sicily and eventually Normandy.He witnessed the battle at Arnhem and saw bodies being buried during the liberation of Belsen.Don concluded the War in Hamburg and eventually returned to the UK where he began work at Fords in Dagenham.Sit back and listen to this wonderful man tell his incredible story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The following are links to Nuremberg: The Trial of Nazi War Criminals, 4AM Kyiv Is Bombed, Mueller: Trump Tower Moscow and Reykjavik.Show Notes:0:42 war crimes in Ukraine and disappointment that America is not a member of the ICC.3:00 Jonathan Myerson's reasons for writing Nuremberg: the Trial of Nazi War Criminals5:00 issues that almost kept Nuremberg trial from happening, including Winston Churchill's disinterest in having a trial7:45 Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg by Dr. Francine Hirsch 9:45 indictment of the wrong Krupp. 10:20 speed of the trial after VE Day in May 194511:35 one structural point for the Nuremberg podcast was to show the trial from the ground up12:50 another structural point for the Nuremberg podcast was to focus on what the defendants caused in Europe not about the defendants 14:30 how witnesses were selected to include in the podcast15:00 Episodes 5 and 6 include what it was like to hear from witnesses about the mass killing concentration camps for the first time 18:30 British bureaucratic coping in collection of evidence 20:00 Hadassah Binco, mother of Belsen – use of her testimony from the Belsen trial21:30 Hermann Graebe's testimony about witnessing mass shooting site in Ukraine22:30 closing by British Chief Prosecutor Lord Hartley William Shawcross 24:45 feedback from Nuremberg podcast27:00 This Is Your country Too podcast - seven plays about child refugees29:00 Britian's poor approach to accepting immigrants from Ukraine now and during WWII, Kindertransport30:20 Lebanon, the Syrian army, Civil War 31:45 Ukraine podcast play, 4AM Kyiv is Bombed33:30 Lviv otherwise known as Lemberg, otherwise known as Lvov34:30 Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder35:30 Ukrainian National Police Facebook page37:30 his work serves to remind us about historical events38:30 Payback about the 1973 Yom Kippur War and US's decision to re-arm Israel40:00 Reykjavik podcast - meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev 40:45 Francis Fukuyama's End of History41:30 Star Wars program42:00 a wider understanding of justice To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast, please call 1.929.260.4942 or email Stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com. © Stephanie Drawdy [2022]For more details about joining the monthly discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com. Hope to see you there!

Bel Mooney reads a poem about the Belsen concentration camp. Alan Sorensen shows us how to avoid Vanity. Jeremy Irons reads Psalm 140. Larry Gentis explains how God recruited Moses to rescue the people if Israel, Mary Haddow draws a lesson from Blondin's exploits.

August 1945, the war is over, and the evidence is building up. If anything there's too much paperwork, too many files – the Nazi machine insisted on recording everything. But are these documents sufficient – or will they need to hear from the victims themselves? Meanwhile, across Germany, ordinary soldiers are stumbling across the concentration camps, shocked and stunned by what they find. The British drive into Belsen having been told it was ‘just a typhus hospital'. But when they start taking affidavits from prisoners, the investigators start to hear about a place in the East called Auschwitz-Birkenau – and the witnesses talk about gas chambers and industrial-scale killing. It's unbelievable. Starring Luke Norris as Roger Barrett, lawyer in charge of the Nuremberg Documents Room, and featuring Rosie Sheehy as Ada Bimko, a Polish Survivor of Auschwitz. Cast: Roger Barrett - LUKE NORRIS Robert Storey - HARI DHILLON John Amen - JOSEPH ALESSI Robert H Jackson - JOSEPH MYDELL Colonel Leo Genn - NICHOLAS WOODESON Fritz Leo - NIGEL LINDSAY Ada Bimko - ROSIE SHEEHY Captain Galitzine - ILAN GOODMAN Captain Smallwood and other roles - MARK EDEL-HUNT Major Williams and other roles - NATHAN WILEY Heinrich Hoffman and other roles - JASPER BRITTON Wilhelm Keitel and other roles - JONATHAN CULLEN Lord Cadogan and other roles - ANDREW WOODALL Quartermaster Sergeant and other roles - CLIVE WOOD Titles - LEWIS MACLEOD Sound Designer - ADAM WOODHAMS Studio Manager - MARK SMITH Casting Director - GINNY SCHILLER Original Score - METAPHOR MUSIC Writer and Director - JONATHAN MYERSON Producer - NICHOLAS NEWTON A Promenade Production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

Josef Kramer was known as the 'Beast of Belsen'. Did he deserve that name, or was he in fact a pleasant fellow?

‘Oh, James' is a catchphrase from the Bond films, said by hot girls in breathy, sexy voices. When the love interest says it in ‘Diamonds are Forever', she is disappointed. A bit like me, reading this book. As critics have pointed out, the function of the Bond girl it to reflect Bond back to himself – she's more a plot device than a character. I found novel Bond repellent for precisely the same reasons film Bond is interesting. Belsen? is there a prize for most inappropriate holocaust metaphor? Join me on Patreon for show notes and unexpurgated guest interviews: https://www.patreon.com/censoredpodI have stickers… https://censoredpod.bigcartel.com/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brigadier Glyn Hughes gave the Belsen court evidence which was false and misleading.

Oscar Schmitz was charged with committing war crimes while a guard at Belsen. But he was innocent.

Continuamos nuestro recorrido por las peores bestias de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y está vez llegamos a un burocrata, a un técnico que lo único que hizo fue cumplir su trabajo, tal como lo hacemos nosotros en nuestro diario vivir. Josef Kramer se preocupó tanto por los informes y los comunicados laborales, que en el proceso se olvidó de su propia humanidad. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hilde Lisiewitz was a guard at Belsen and was found guilty of war crimes. But did her accuser commit perjury?

Irma Grese was a guard at Belsen. She was charged and convicted of war crimes, and then she was hanged. But did the court act properly?

Fritz Klein was a doctor at Auschwitz and Belsen and was singled out by the British for vicious treatment before being hanged. Was that fair?

The British liberated Belsen Concentration Camp on 15th April 1945 and were confronted by a human catastrophe on an unimaginable scale. They wanted to hold to account those responsible, and decided to hold a war crimes trial. In this episode we examine the challenges which faced them: what law to apply, the charge to be preferred, the evidence. We shall see how they rose - or failed to rise - to meet those challenges.

It's Part 2 of the Irma Grese series, and WOW... you thought you hated her last week? Get ready to get angry as we discuss Irma's daily guard duties, her sexual predilections, and her trial for crimes against humanity. Does she get the punishment she deserves? Well, we certainly hope so. Listen today to find out! Come to the dark Dolly Side and visit our PATREON for exclusive content! We appreciate your support always, and Patreon is a great way to show us how you really feel! Plus...PERKS! Click HERE to take a look at what we offer our best Dolly Listeners! Special thanks to SamHears for our cover art and music! You can check him out here at samhears.wordpress.com Email: Neardeathdolls@gmail.com Instagram: @NearDeathDollsPodcast Twitter: twitter.com/neardeathdolls

Well, look who’s back. It’s Phil and Willow! And in this episode we’re talking about Fritz Leiber and “Belsen Express!”

Well, look who’s back. It’s Phil and Willow! And in this episode we’re talking about Fritz Leiber and “Belsen Express!”

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Tom Scott-Smith is Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration. He and Helen talk about the history of famine relief and humanitarian aid, and how it has changed over time. Humitarian aid is intensely political, and the form that humanitarian aid takes today is heavily influenced by its past. That form is important, because the type of aid that refugees receive has a big impact on their lives; the quality and quantity of food matters.Tom also talks nutritional science, showing how overproduction of milk, soy and corn in the 1930s, have been responsible for the nutritional content of humanitarian food today. He and Helen also discuss the liberation of Belsen, and whether there is any truth to the story that those being liberated from Bergen-Belsen were more interested in getting their hands on lipstick, rather than food. Find out more here: https://www.ukri.org/news/100-new-generation-thinkers/Producer: Peter Curry See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Para esta semana les traigo mi conversación con @siempre_bellacr Belsen Mata, Coach en salud, Coach en Alimentación holística y alimentación a base de plantas, con estudios de nutrición convencional por más de 6 años de experiencia. Licenciatura en Odontología, Ex bailarina profesional de danza jazz, Instructora de Pilates y Pilates Barre, Capacitadora por 3 días en el Hospital San Vicente de Paúl , Heredia en Costa Rica.

Misty McCready presents this unique documentary recalling the memories of young inmates at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the Second World War. The programme includes interviews with survivors of the camp, poignant archive audio, and first-hand accounts written in 1945. You'll hear interviews with survivors Rudi Oppenheimer and Miryam Sommerfeld. Bernard Levy, a British soldier who arrived approximately one week after the liberation, also shares his story. BBC archive audio featuring Richard Dimbleby, the first reporter into Belsen post-liberation, and Harold-Osmond le Druillenec, the only British National found in the camp, set the documentary in raw historical context. This programme was made to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp's liberation in 1945. Produced by Dave Roberts and Misty McCready, ‘Children of Belsen' won two trophies at the 2016 New York Festivals Radio Awards and was a winner at the 2015 AIBs (Association for International Broadcasting).

- Oss tog de till Ravensbrück och sen till Belsen, där vi befriades av engelsmännen. Mamma och jag var utmärglade. Jag hade feber. Mamma kom till mig med en tallrik soppa, men jag ville bara dricka vatten och te. I stället åt mamma upp soppan. Hon dog av fettet, säger Estera Jablonski. Foto: Cato Lein

This episode is dedicated to the 60,000 British Jews who fought for their country during 1939 to 1945. One of them, 94-year-old Stanley Fisher is my first cousin Samuel Posaner's great-grandfather - and we met by chance at Samuel’s Bar Mitzvah in Birmingham in the very anniversary week he landed on Normandy’s beaches in 1944. Stanley is living history. Not only a teenage soldier arriving in Arromanches in the week of D-Day, he also fought at Arnhem, a terrible and bloody defeat for the allies - and then witnessed the shocking aftermath of the liberation of Belsen concentration camp. He says it gave him nightmares, silencing him from telling his wartime story for decades. Eventually though, a desire to recount his experiences prompted him to speak up - for the benefit of the next generation. It's a profound privilege to bring his story to a wider audience. With thanks to Ben and Rachel Posaner, Esmond Rosen and of course, Stanley who came to the Bar Mitzvah with his wife Evelyn, whom he married in the summer of 1946. That's 73 years! (Update: Sadly Evelyn died a few months later). By the way, Bar Mitzvah boy Samuel's great grandmother, Olga Posaner's own Holocaust testimony is available at https://soundcloud.com/jonnygould/grandmas-escape-from-hitlers-vienna-to-birminghams-freedom (my grandma) I make these podcasts voluntarily. If you enjoy them, please consider helping me at https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_donations&business=BW4GZLQCCL29Y&item_name=Podcast+production+¤cy_code=GBP&source=url

Welcome to episode 15. This week, Ed and Eric are joined by Sydney to read and discuss poetry, starting with Silvia Plath's “Daddy,” a poem that is definitely not about the war Bryan! The episode hearkens back to the lost Hannah Gadsby episode but is different in that it's actually good. Poems are copy and pasted below to follow along! See you on the next one.      Next week's homework: learn to code     Listen to more of The Front Bottoms on Spotify and Apple Music   Follow us on twitter @whatsthehwpod   ————   Daddy BY SYLVIA PLATH   You do not do, you do not do    Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot    For thirty years, poor and white,    Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.   Daddy, I have had to kill you.    You died before I had time—— Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,    Ghastly statue with one gray toe    Big as a Frisco seal   And a head in the freakish Atlantic    Where it pours bean green over blue    In the waters off beautiful Nauset.    I used to pray to recover you. Ach, du.   In the German tongue, in the Polish town    Scraped flat by the roller Of wars, wars, wars. But the name of the town is common.    My Polack friend   Says there are a dozen or two.    So I never could tell where you    Put your foot, your root, I never could talk to you. The tongue stuck in my jaw.   It stuck in a barb wire snare.    Ich, ich, ich, ich, I could hardly speak. I thought every German was you.    And the language obscene   An engine, an engine Chuffing me off like a Jew. A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.    I began to talk like a Jew. I think I may well be a Jew.   The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna    Are not very pure or true. With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck    And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack I may be a bit of a Jew.   I have always been scared of you, With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.    And your neat mustache And your Aryan eye, bright blue. Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You——   Not God but a swastika So black no sky could squeak through.    Every woman adores a Fascist,    The boot in the face, the brute    Brute heart of a brute like you.   You stand at the blackboard, daddy,    In the picture I have of you, A cleft in your chin instead of your foot    But no less a devil for that, no not    Any less the black man who   Bit my pretty red heart in two. I was ten when they buried you.    At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.   But they pulled me out of the sack,    And they stuck me together with glue.    And then I knew what to do. I made a model of you, A man in black with a Meinkampf look   And a love of the rack and the screw.    And I said I do, I do. So daddy, I'm finally through. The black telephone's off at the root,    The voices just can't worm through.   If I've killed one man, I've killed two—— The vampire who said he was you    And drank my blood for a year, Seven years, if you want to know. Daddy, you can lie back now.   There's a stake in your fat black heart    And the villagers never liked you. They are dancing and stamping on you.    They always knew it was you. Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.     Sylvia Plath, “Daddy” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1960, 1965, 1971, 1981 by the Estate of Sylvia Plath. Editorial matter copyright © 1981 by Ted Hughes. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.   ————   Those Winter Sundays BY ROBERT HAYDEN   Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.   I'd wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he'd call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house,   Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love's austere and lonely offices?     Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays” from Collected Poems of Robert Hayden, edited by Frederick Glaysher. Copyright ©1966 by Robert Hayden. Reprinted with the permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.

Grymheten i de tyska koncentrationslägren är ofattbar, men kanske är ändå det märkligaste att det fanns dom som överlevde. Som Jakob, Margareta, Irena, Hedi, Magda, Ebba, Katja, Max och Lilly.   Överlevarna från koncentrationslägren kom i bussar och med fartyg från helvetet på jorden, till landet i norr. De var sjuka och utmärglade men mat och vård, rena vita papperslakan, ett läppstift och en kam eller en varm potatis att hålla i handen gav hopp om en ny framtid. Men hur var det att komma till Sverige och möta människor som inte deltagit i kriget? Och varför blev det så svårt att berätta om det de varit med om i utrotningslägren? I tre program, helt baserade på material ur radions programarkiv, möter vi några av dem som så småningom delade med sig av sina berättelser om tiden i lägren, om anpassningen till det nya landet och om varför de så länge teg om sina upplevelser.

At a time of the year when we’re likely to meet up with family and toast absent friends, Eamonn chats to longtime Irish resident Tomi Reichental about his detention in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the need to address the current refugee crisis and the enduring power of music…

In April 1945 a 15-year-old Dutch Jewish girl, Hetty Werkendam, was interviewed by the BBC in the Nazi concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen shortly after its liberation by the British. Mike Lanchin travels to the site of Bergen-Belsen in Germany with the now 88-year-old Hetty and her family. Hetty vividly recalls the deprivations of the camp, and of seeing the dead bodies piling up outside the children's barracks. Hetty says its a story that needs to be told again and again in order not to be forgotten by the next generation.

Tomi's story continues, as he talks us through his arrival in Belsen, a place his family members knew nothing of, and expected would be their final destination. Tragically, as we'll see, this was to be true for some of them. Tomi brings us through his harrowing experiences of life in a concentration camp, just as the Nazi system was falling apart. It contains detail which some may find upsetting, so I have marked it as explicit for this reason.Tomi's story is one which brings us through some difficult themes and scenes, but it ends on a note of hope, as he learns for the first time, after staying silent for so long, how important speaking out truly is. Please make sure to join us for the final part on Friday, as we bring this incredible saga to its end.*******************Tomi Reichental would love to hear from you, so be sure to send me any messages you may have for him and I will happily pass them on to him! For further information about the award winning documentaries Tomi has helped direct and taken an active part in, see the links below.Till The Tenth Generation intro: https://vimeo.com/101014541Close To Evil intro: http://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/0827/639627-close-to-evil/Condemned To Remember intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCWWVwrK4L0A huge thanksss again must go out to Tomi Reichental himself, who gave up his valuable time and invited me into his lovely home to help this interview take place. It is because of his need to tell his story that we are privileged to host it here. Thank you Tomi, you are a true history friend. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Mother of Belsen. History Lesson. Pitbull Saves Owners Life. Teachers Poem to Her Students. Twister Takes Bathtub for a Ride. Facts That Are Strange But True.

Topics: Lovecraft, Transmigration, Obsession, Cemetery of Forgotten Books, Souls, Intimacy, The Closet, Robert Barlow, Homosexual, Mat Ruff, Get Out, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, The Ballad of Black Tom, Belsen, Horror, Truth, Stories, Communities, Scienc...

42 Minutes 269: Paul La Farge - The Night Ocean - 04.11.2017 The program considers the horrors of everyday life by taking a trip to Florida with novelist Paul La Farge to visit H.P. Lovecraft and Robert Barlow during the spring of 1934. A Lesser Summoning and Contact with Ye Outer Spheres is described in Yoh-Vombis. Topics Include: Lovecraft, Transmigration, Obsession, Cemetery of Forgotten Books, Souls, Intimacy, The Closet, Robert Barlow, Homosexual, Mat Ruff, Get Out, Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia, The Ballad of Black Tom, Belsen, Horror, Truth, Stories, Communities, Science Fiction, Collaboration, Mystery. http://amzn.to/2phODru

Following liberation, five orphaned children from Belsen concentration camp were brought to Ireland by Dr Bob Collis and adopted by Irish families. They remember their lives before they were captured and sent to Belsen, talk about how they survived the horrors of the holocaust and adapted to their new lives in Ireland. ( 1993 )

Shaul Ladany is a long-distance Israeli race-walker who set world records that stand to this day. But, even more remarkably, he survived a childhood in the Belsen concentration camp and then the terrorist attack on the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics in 1972. Shaul Ladany talks to Will Yates. Picture: Shaul Ladany in action at the 1972 Olympics (from his personal archive)

Jonas Gutierrez has been speaking to Sportshour after an employment tribunal found he was dropped by Newcastle United because of his cancer diagnosis. He told Caroline Barker some of his former-team mates called to congratulate him after the verdict. The 32-year-old was suing the Magpies for about $3,000,000 on the grounds of disability discrimination. The tribunal also ruled the club made it impossible for Gutierrez to trigger an appearance-based contract extension. Newcastle say they are "dismayed" by the judgement and are considering further options with their legal team. Claims of unfavorable treatment and another of harassment related to disability were dismissed. Kobe Calling: We bid farewell to one of basketballs finest by finding out what it was like to play with the great man. Vladimir Radmanović says it was tough to turn down Kobe Bryant when the NBA legend asked him to become a team-mate at the LA Lakers. Now retired he also plans to take on Bryant in a one-on-one contest, but only in a couple of years when the 37-year-old American, who retires this week, is "older and fatter". Rally Car Reality: As the World Rallycross Championship season begins we hear from the one of the drivers who thinks he might just have the edge this season… and it's all down to playing computer games! Britain's Liam Doran has already won rally car gold at the X-Games and tells us future success might be down to his games console. Rio: We are in Rio: Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff is facing impeachment in the national Congress and uncertainty surrounds the very highest offices in Brazilian government. So could the political unrest present problems for the Olympics which start in the country in just over 3 months’ time? We hear from Mario Andrada member of the 2016 Organising committee Sporting Witness… Shaul Ladany is a long-distance Israeli race-walker who set world records that stand to this day. But, even more remarkably, he survived a childhood in the Belsen concentration camp and then the terrorist attack on the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics in 1972. More recently, he’s seen off cancer and a quadruple heart-bypass, still finding the energy to walk 80 kilometres on his 80th birthday earlier this month. We joined him.. Photo: Jonas Gutierrez in action for Newcastle United. Credit: Getty Images

The Allied advance through Germany recaptures Berlin, but uncovers the atrocities of the Holocaust, as war in the Far East rages on. With Jonathan Dimbleby.

1.- Hitler planifica la invasión El 22 de junio de 1940, Gran Bretaña era el único país capaz de oponer resistencia a los nazis. Francia se había rendido, y el nuevo primer ministro británico, Wiston Churchill, sólo podía expresar su desafío refunfuñando. Hitler no dudaba de que, muy pronto, Gran Bretaña intentaría negociar la paz. 2.- La Batalla de Inglaterra y Blitz La Luftwaffe, la fuerza aérea alemana, había estado castigando a la armada británica en el Canal de la Mancha desde junio de 1940. El comandante en jefe alemán, el mariscal del III Reich Hermann Goering, perseguía la provocación de la fuerza aérea británica para que entrara en combate. 3.- Los hombres que liberaron Belsen Cuando en abril de 1945 las tropas británicas entraron en el campo de concentración de Belsen, lo que vieron impactó al mundo. Richard Dimbleby y otros corresponsales aliados mostraron a traves de emisiones en radio y de una única secuencia de película los terribles crímenes cometidos por los nazis y su Führer.

1.- Hitler planifica la invasión El 22 de junio de 1940, Gran Bretaña era el único país capaz de oponer resistencia a los nazis. Francia se había rendido, y el nuevo primer ministro británico, Wiston Churchill, sólo podía expresar su desafío refunfuñando. Hitler no dudaba de que, muy pronto, Gran Bretaña intentaría negociar la paz. 2.- La Batalla de Inglaterra y Blitz La Luftwaffe, la fuerza aérea alemana, había estado castigando a la armada británica en el Canal de la Mancha desde junio de 1940. El comandante en jefe alemán, el mariscal del III Reich Hermann Goering, perseguía la provocación de la fuerza aérea británica para que entrara en combate. 3.- Los hombres que liberaron Belsen Cuando en abril de 1945 las tropas británicas entraron en el campo de concentración de Belsen, lo que vieron impactó al mundo. Richard Dimbleby y otros corresponsales aliados mostraron a traves de emisiones en radio y de una única secuencia de película los terribles crímenes cometidos por los nazis y su Führer.

Kirsty Young's guest is former Royal Navy test pilot Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - the programme's 3000th edition. The Fleet Air Arm's most decorated pilot, his life reads like a handbook in beating the odds. Landing on a flight deck is acknowledged as one of the most difficult things a pilot can do. Eric Brown has held the world record for the most flight deck landings - 2,407 - for over 65 years. He was one of only two men on his ship, HMS Audacity, to survive a German U-boat bombing. In a long and remarkable life he has witnessed first-hand momentous events in world history, from the Berlin Olympics in 1936 to the liberation of the Belsen concentration camp. Flying, he believes, is in his blood. He originally climbed into the open cockpit of a Gloster Gauntlet as a child to sit on his father's knee. Thirty years later he would pilot Britain's first ever supersonic flight. He says: "It's an exhilarating world to live in. There's always that aura of risk - you come to value life in a slightly different way." Producer: Paula McGinley.

Kirsty Young's guest is former Royal Navy test pilot Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - the programme's 3000th edition. The Fleet Air Arm's most decorated pilot, his life reads like a handbook in beating the odds. Landing on a flight deck is acknowledged as one of the most difficult things a pilot can do. Eric Brown has held the world record for the most flight deck landings - 2,407 - for over 65 years. He was one of only two men on his ship, HMS Audacity, to survive a German U-boat bombing. In a long and remarkable life he has witnessed first-hand momentous events in world history, from the Berlin Olympics in 1936 to the liberation of the Belsen concentration camp. Flying, he believes, is in his blood. He originally climbed into the open cockpit of a Gloster Gauntlet as a child to sit on his father's knee. Thirty years later he would pilot Britain's first ever supersonic flight. He says: "It's an exhilarating world to live in. There's always that aura of risk - you come to value life in a slightly different way." Producer: Paula McGinley.

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the broadcaster David Dimbleby. When he was born, in 1938, his father Richard was already a national institution. Richard recorded reports from bombers flying over Germany, went to Belsen at the end of the war and, of course, commentated on the funeral of King George VI and subsequent coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In Desert Island Discs, David tells Kirsty how his father had tried to steer him away from journalism. But he believes that it is a job that is addictive and so it was perhaps inevitable that he would become part of the fifth generation of Dimblebys to pursue a career in the media.He is best known for the big state events - he has anchored the BBC's general election coverage since 1979 and commentated during the funerals of both Princess Diana and the Queen Mother - throughout them all, he says, his method is not to think of the audience of millions, but instead to imagine himself sitting on a sofa, next to just one viewer, saying as little as he needs to in order to explain what is happening.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: Song that You'd Like by Kate Dimbleby Band Book: Collected essays by Michel de Montaigne Luxury: A collection of drawing books, pencils and varnish.

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the broadcaster David Dimbleby. When he was born, in 1938, his father Richard was already a national institution. Richard recorded reports from bombers flying over Germany, went to Belsen at the end of the war and, of course, commentated on the funeral of King George VI and subsequent coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. In Desert Island Discs, David tells Kirsty how his father had tried to steer him away from journalism. But he believes that it is a job that is addictive and so it was perhaps inevitable that he would become part of the fifth generation of Dimblebys to pursue a career in the media. He is best known for the big state events - he has anchored the BBC's general election coverage since 1979 and commentated during the funerals of both Princess Diana and the Queen Mother - throughout them all, he says, his method is not to think of the audience of millions, but instead to imagine himself sitting on a sofa, next to just one viewer, saying as little as he needs to in order to explain what is happening. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Song that You'd Like by Kate Dimbleby Band Book: Collected essays by Michel de Montaigne Luxury: A collection of drawing books, pencils and varnish.

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the musician Lady Natasha Spender. She was born at the end of the First World War and has spent her life immersed in the arts. Gifted with perfect pitch, she studied under Clifford Curzon and enjoyed a highly successful career as a concert pianist. In the months after the end of the Second World War she gave a concert at Belsen to inmates who were recovering in its hospital wing and, a couple of years later, she was chosen to be the soloist in the world's first ever televised concert for the BBC. She was also one half of a cultural 'it' couple - for more than 50 years she was married to the poet Sir Stephen Spender. They had met at a literary lunch he was hosting and became friends after Natasha stayed behind to help him with the washing up. They were friends with many of the greats of the past century, including T S Eliot, Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein. She is now the executor to Sir Stephen's very considerable estate and is writing her own memoirs. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: 1st movement of String Quintet in G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Desert Islands: An Anthology by Walter de la Mare Luxury: Her grand piano.

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the musician Lady Natasha Spender. She was born at the end of the First World War and has spent her life immersed in the arts. Gifted with perfect pitch, she studied under Clifford Curzon and enjoyed a highly successful career as a concert pianist. In the months after the end of the Second World War she gave a concert at Belsen to inmates who were recovering in its hospital wing and, a couple of years later, she was chosen to be the soloist in the world's first ever televised concert for the BBC. She was also one half of a cultural 'it' couple - for more than 50 years she was married to the poet Sir Stephen Spender. They had met at a literary lunch he was hosting and became friends after Natasha stayed behind to help him with the washing up. They were friends with many of the greats of the past century, including T S Eliot, Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein. She is now the executor to Sir Stephen's very considerable estate and is writing her own memoirs. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: 1st movement of String Quintet in G Minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Book: Desert Islands: An Anthology by Walter de la Mare Luxury: Her grand piano.

Sue Lawley's guest this week is Helen Bamber. In 1945, at the age of 20, she travelled to Belsen with the Jewish Relief agency. There she learnt how important it is to listen to those who have suffered. It was a lesson she continued to practice in her work with Amnesty International, and later with the Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture which she set up in 1985. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Song of the Birds by Cant Del Ocells Book: Poet for Poet by Richard McCain Luxury: Radio to listen to the World Service

Sue Lawley's guest this week is Helen Bamber. In 1945, at the age of 20, she travelled to Belsen with the Jewish Relief agency. There she learnt how important it is to listen to those who have suffered. It was a lesson she continued to practice in her work with Amnesty International, and later with the Medical Foundation for the Victims of Torture which she set up in 1985. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Song of the Birds by Cant Del Ocells Book: Poet for Poet by Richard McCain Luxury: Radio to listen to the World Service

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. One of the most distinguished members of the English Chamber Orchestra, she has toured all over the world with them.However, as she will be telling Sue Lawley, up until the early 1980s, she always refused to visit one country - Germany. For it was from there that her Jewish parents were taken away by the Gestapo, never to be seen again. From the age of 18, she herself was taken away to Auschwitz. There, because she was able to play the cello, she survived, and played in the camp's orchestra. However, when she was later moved to Belsen, she nearly didn't. She'll be talking about playing in the orchestra at Auschwitz, about the importance of music in sustaining life both then and now, and about her feelings towards Germany and the Germans more than 50 years after the events of her early life.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Piano Sonata Opus 111 by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The History of the World by J M Roberts Luxury: Cello

The castaway in Desert Island Discs this week is the cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch. One of the most distinguished members of the English Chamber Orchestra, she has toured all over the world with them. However, as she will be telling Sue Lawley, up until the early 1980s, she always refused to visit one country - Germany. For it was from there that her Jewish parents were taken away by the Gestapo, never to be seen again. From the age of 18, she herself was taken away to Auschwitz. There, because she was able to play the cello, she survived, and played in the camp's orchestra. However, when she was later moved to Belsen, she nearly didn't. She'll be talking about playing in the orchestra at Auschwitz, about the importance of music in sustaining life both then and now, and about her feelings towards Germany and the Germans more than 50 years after the events of her early life. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Piano Sonata Opus 111 by Ludwig van Beethoven Book: The History of the World by J M Roberts Luxury: Cello