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Eighty years on, Thessaloniki Holocaust survivor recalls cart of trampled bodies
Eighty-four-year-old Rina Revah was nearly four when she was sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in northern Germany with her parents in 1943. She would spend the next two years of her childhood there and witness events that would stay with her forever.
The last Greek Jewish Holocaust survivor
Eighty years after the first trains departed Greece on their way to the Nazi death camps in Germany and Poland, the last Holocaust survivor of Trikala's Jewish community recounts the horrors of World War II.
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The Phones Emitting the Most Radiation (infographic)
The German Federal Office for Radiation Protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz) has a comprehensive database of smartphones
Turkey has great potential to compete worldwide: CEO
Turkey has a great potential to compete worldwide, particularly in the textile, auto, and machinery sectors, according to the CEO of Hannover Fairs Turkey, which handles the Turkish operations of one of the world's largest fair firms, Deutsche Messe AG.
Croatian Auschwitz Survivor Branko Lustig Dies
Hollywood film producer Branko Lustig, who survived internment in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, died early on Thursday morning at the age of 88.
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German city elects ethnic Turkish mayor for first time
Voters in Hannover, Germany have elected an ethnic Turkish politician as mayor for the first time in the city's history.
Prime Minister of Lower Saxony: There Is Currently no Chance for a Volkswagen Plant in Turkey
Germany's Lower Saxony Prime Minister Stephan Weil is currently ruling out the possibility of a new Volkswagen plant in Turkey due to the Turkish invasion of Syria, German magazine Spiegel reported in an electronic publication.
Weil serves on the Volkswagen Supervisory Board as a representative of Lower Saxony, which holds over 20% of the concern.
German court drops case against Nazi
A German court yesterday said it had dropped a case against a 96-year-old former medical orderly at the Auschwitz death camp because he suffers from dementia, ending one of the last high-profile Nazi prosecutions.
Wheelchair-bound Hubert Zafke had faced 3,681 counts of being an accessory to murder at the concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
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McAllister to become new EP rapporteur for Serbia
BRUSSELS - David McAllister of the European People's Party (EPP) is set to become the new European Parliament (EP) rapporteur for Serbia, Tanjug has learned at the MEP's office.
McAllister's appointment has been made at a closed-door EPP meeting, but it is yet to be officially confirmed by the EP's Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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