Auschwitz survivors and world leaders mark 80 years since Nazi death camp's liberation
The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the ...
A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films, memoir explore the contradictions of ‘dark tourism’
The works explore a process familiar to Jewish visitors to the death camps and the former homes of vanished loved ones: an ...
At Auschwitz memorial, survivors see echoes of the past in rising antisemitism
Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of the rising antisemitism and hatred they are witnessing in the modern world as they ...
Holocaust survivor to return German award over far-right role in parliamentary vote
A 99-year-old Holocaust survivor said on Thursday he would return his federal order of merit award to the German state in protest over a parliamentary vote in which support from the far-right was used ...
Oświęcim’s sole Jewish resident reflects on modern antisemitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz camp’s liberation
Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting ...
Auschwitz through Jewish eyes: Lessons and reflections on memory
The Wannsee villa in Berlin, where Nazi officials gathered to decide that the Jews of Europe will be killed, is where the ...
Pittsburgh families tell survivors' stories from Auschwitz 80 years later on Holocaust Remembrance Day
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the families of two survivors who resettled in Pittsburgh shared their stories.
Good Morning Britain apologises after failing to acknowledge 6,000,000 Jews killed in Holocaust
The annual event of Holocaust Memorial Day remembers the six million Jewish people murdered during the Holocaust, as well as ...
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Holocaust survivor speaks to area students
Marks had been just two years old when her mother sent her to live with a Catholic family to hide her from Nazis.
Auschwitz commandant's daughter relives childhood with 'wonderful dad' Rudolf Hoess
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess oversaw the slaughter of around 1.1 million Jews, along with 20,000 gypsies and tens of ...