Herman Janez
Commemoration of Ljubelj liberation calls for peace and end to evil
Ljubelj – A ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the liberation of the Ljubelj concentration camp noted the importance of recalling horrible events in the past to prevent new horrors of war. Speakers at Saturday’s ceremony urged efforts to prevent the spread of evil and called for peace in light of the war in Ukraine.
Idyllic Croatian Island Can’t Erase Grim WWII History
Herman Janez was just a child in 1942 when Italian fascist troops set the village of Stari Kot in Slovenia on fire and took his family away to Kampor, an Italian-run concentration camp on the Croatian island of Rab.