North Fork

Social Justice

New Fears on Milestone Holocaust Remembrance Day

“You’ll be here maybe six months and then you’ll leave the camps through the chimney,” a teenage Werner Reich was told by his fellow prisoners when he arrived at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp at the height of the Holocaust. He’d never heard of Auschwitz before he’d arrived and he didn’t know what was happening there.

East End

Editorial

Never Again

Werner Reich was a boy in Germany when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of his native country in 1933. Many people who were not alive to grasp the horror World War II believe the Holocaust began after Germany started World War II by invading Poland in 1939. But for Mr. Reich, the Holocaust began within six months of Hitler’s initial election.