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Denise Holstein, the Glossary

Denise Holstein (6 February 1927 in Rouen) is an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor and Holocaust witness, who was liberated on 15 April 1945.^[1]

37 relations: Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen, Alois Brunner, Alps, Appellplatz, Auschwitz concentration camp, Avignon, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Canal+ (French TV channel), Diphtheria, Drancy internment camp, Forced labour, France Inter, Gueules cassées, Identification of inmates in Nazi concentration camps, Josef Mengele, Kaunas, Legion of Honour, Lithuania, Louveciennes, Lycée Pierre-Corneille, Maquis (World War II), Mumps, Nazi hunter, Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital, Ordre des Palmes académiques, Quarantine, Revier (Nazi concentration camps), Rouen, Russian Empire, Scarlet fever, Serge Klarsfeld, Sobibor extermination camp, The Holocaust, Typhus, Union générale des israélites de France, Vierzon, Villard-de-Lans.
People from Rouen

Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen

The Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Rouen is a learned society created by letters patent of Louis XV on 17 June 1744.

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Alois Brunner

Alois Brunner (8 April 1912 – or) was an Austrian officer who held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) during World War II.

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The Alps are one of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approximately across eight Alpine countries (from west to east): Monaco, France, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria and Slovenia.

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Appellplatz

Appellplatz (often spelt appelplatz) is a compound German word meaning "roll call" (Appell) and "area" or "place" (Platz).

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Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust.

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Avignon

Avignon (Provençal or Avignoun,; Avenio) is the prefecture of the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France.

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Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle.

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Canal+ (French TV channel)

Canal+ (meaning "Channel Plus"), also spelt Canal Plus and sometimes abbreviated C+ or Canal, is a French premium television channel owned by the Groupe Canal+.

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Diphtheria

Diphtheria is an infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae.

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Drancy internment camp

Drancy internment camp was an assembly and detention camp for confining Jews who were later deported to the extermination camps during the German occupation of France during World War II.

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Forced labour

Forced labour, or unfree labour, is any work relation, especially in modern or early modern history, in which people are employed against their will with the threat of destitution, detention, or violence, including death or other forms of extreme hardship to either themselves or members of their families.

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France Inter

France Inter is a major French public radio channel and part of Radio France.

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Gueules cassées

Gueules cassées (broken faces)Biernoff, S. and Stein, C. (2008); "Les Gueules cassées (review)", in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Volume 82, Number 2, Summer 2008.

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Identification of inmates in Nazi concentration camps

Identification of inmates in Nazi concentration camps was performed mostly with identification numbers marked on clothing, or later, tattooed on the skin.

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Josef Mengele

Josef Rudolf Mengele (16 March 19117 February 1979) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) officer and physician during World War II.

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Kaunas

Kaunas (previously known in English as Kovno, also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life.

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Legion of Honour

The National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, and currently comprises five classes.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.

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Louveciennes

Louveciennes is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

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Lycée Pierre-Corneille

The Lycée Pierre-Corneille (also known as the Lycée Corneille) is a state secondary school located in the city of Rouen, France.

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Maquis (World War II)

The Maquis were rural guerrilla bands of French and Belgian Resistance fighters, called maquisards, during the German military administration in occupied France during World War II.

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Mumps

Mumps is a highly contagious viral disease caused by the mumps virus.

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Nazi hunter

A Nazi hunter is an individual who tracks down and gathers information on alleged former Nazis, or SS members, and Nazi collaborators who were involved in the Holocaust, typically for use at trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital

The Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital is a French teaching hospital in the 15th arrondissement of Paris.

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Ordre des Palmes académiques

The is a national order bestowed by the French Republic on distinguished academics and teachers and for valuable service to universities, education and science.

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Quarantine

A quarantine is a restriction on the movement of people, animals, and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests.

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Revier (Nazi concentration camps)

Revier was a term used in Nazi camps to designate the medical facility for inmates.

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Rouen

Rouen is a city on the River Seine in northern France.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Scarlet fever

Scarlet fever, also known as scarlatina, is an infectious disease caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, a Group A streptococcus (GAS).

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Serge Klarsfeld

Serge Klarsfeld (born 17 September 1935) is a Romanian-born French activist and Nazi hunter known for documenting the Holocaust in order to establish the record and to enable the prosecution of war criminals.

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Sobibor extermination camp

Sobibor (Sobibór) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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Typhus

Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus, and murine typhus.

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Union générale des israélites de France

The General Union of French Israelites (Union générale des israélites de France, UGIF) was a body created by the antisemitic French politician Xavier Vallat under the Vichy regime after the Fall of France in World War II.

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Vierzon

Vierzon is a commune in the Cher department, Centre-Val de Loire, France.

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Villard-de-Lans

Villard-de-Lans (literally Villard of Lans; Lo Vilar de Lanç) is a commune in the Isère department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeastern France.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Holstein

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