I remember

12.July 2022 Ivan Ivanji

International Committee of Prisoners: Our good SS

The prisoners of the Buchenwald concentration camp secretly founded the International Committee of Camp Inmates. He had three main tasks: to rescue communists, social democrats and younger and healthier inmates who had a better chance of survival, to form a "lagerschutz" and organize camp infirmaries. It saved my life - I was taken off the list for Auschwitz and sent to the Niederorschl labor camp

I remember

22.march 2022 Ivan Ivanji

Deaths in Kharkiv: The death of my friend Boris Romanchenko

I met Boris Timofeyevich Romanchenko on several occasions. We both survived the Second World War and the Buchenwald concentration camp from which the Americans rescued us, only to be killed yesterday by a Russian rocket at a very old age in a new war. There is a lot of historical irony in that

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

29.January 2014 Ivan Ivanji

They did not kill the man

The liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27, 1945 is commemorated as Holocaust Remembrance Day. I passed through that famous gate above which it is written Arbeit macht frei, got off the train onto the platform where it was decided who was fit for work and who was for the gas chamber. And I'm still alive, but it's like I've been sentenced to a concentration camp for life