Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Saturday 27 September 2014

SPIEGEL ONLINEINTERNATIONAL NEWSLETTER 

Compiled on September 26, 2014, 06:04 PM CET

INTERVIEW WITH EBOLA DISCOVERER PETER PIOT

'It Is What People Call a Perfect Storm'

Almost four decades ago, Peter Piot was part of the team that discovered the Ebola virus. In a SPIEGEL interview, he describes how the disease was isolated and explains why the current outbreak is different than any that have come before.

A VOICE FOR THE DEAD

Recovering the Lost History of Sobibór

Henchman with the Nazi SS sought to cover up the mass murder that occurred at the Sobibór concentration camp in eastern Poland. Archeologists recently uncovered the site's hidden gas chambers and important artifacts that shed light on the victims.

INTERVIEW WITH A SOBIBÓR SURVIVOR

'The Best Moment of My Life'

In an interview, 84 year old Sobibór survivor Philip Bialowitz discusses the importance of the recent discovery of the death camp's gas chambers and his risky escape from the Nazis in 1943.