Nazi concentration camps

New Book 'My Name is B-1259 - I Survived 9 Nazi Concentration Camps' by Michael Brown Now Available

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Amidst current events, a just-published book about a young man that survived 9 Nazi concentration camps reminds readers of the hardships Jewish people had to overcome throughout history. "My Name is B-1259 – I Survived 9 Nazi Concentration Camps" by Michael Brown is the story of Elias Feinzilberg, whose goal in the later years of his life was the same as this book: to remind the living of the tragedies of the Holocaust and the dangers of hatred and antisemitism so history will never be repeated. 

Key Points: 
  • As I delved into the story what I learned was truly amazing and compelled me to pursue and tell the story in this book," said writer Michael Brown.
  • Rounded up and shipped to a concentration camp, his life expectancy was at best a few months.
  • In the final analysis, this book is a story that had to be told about the human spirit, love, and triumph.
  • Michael Brown is a retired Hollywood film editor and the winner of three Emmy Awards.

"Poland First to Fight" International History Conference Set For November in Washington, D.C.

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Monday, October 21, 2019

The conference will gather historians, museum curators, educators, politicians, journalists, filmmakers, publishers and government officials.

Key Points: 
  • The conference will gather historians, museum curators, educators, politicians, journalists, filmmakers, publishers and government officials.
  • Professor Krystyna Zamorska, daughter of a prisoner of the concentration camp KL Stutthof, will present the history of German concentration camps in German-occupied Poland.
  • Professor Bogdan Musial will explain the system of murderous repression imposed by the German occupants on Poles rescuing Jews.
  • US film director Stacey Fitzgerald and dozens of other prominent scholars, writers and filmmakers will follow with rich, sometimes shocking, historical presentations.