Lali Sokolov – better known as the Tattooist of Auschwitz, who was immortalised in the 2018 book that has sold more than 13 million copies in 40 languages – has done more to keep the horrors of the Second World War alive than most in recent memory.
World leaders rubbed shoulders with 56 survivors of Hitler's death camp as they marked 80 years since its liberation.
Auschwitz survivors have warned of the rising antisemitism and hatred in the modern world as they gathered with world leaders and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation.
That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of regular Germans—and Europeans more broadly—facilitated or silently accepted these actions.
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, survivor Tova Friedman says she thought she was the "only Jewish child in the world".
World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors joined in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp by the Red Army.
During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys in which they were packed into cramped cattle cars.
World leaders will be in Poland Monday to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80thanniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
The Daily Express and the Daily Mirror both feature a picture of an elderly Holocaust survivor who returned to Auschwitz for Monday's ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of its liberation. The Express captions the image "returning to hell", while the Mirror's headline reads "it is our duty to remember".
Rabbi Neal Katz from Congregation Beth El in Tyler stopped by KETK on Tuesday to mark 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp complex. Auschwitz was a series of concentration and extermination camps run by Nazi Germany in then-occupied Poland.