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 ...
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The Liberation of Auschwitz—Where More Than One Million Jews Were Killed—Took Place on This Day in 1945
When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...
A photographer walked the railroad tracks that led to Auschwitz and saw the ‘darkness of the past’
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Oded Balilty started with the AP as a freelancer in Jerusalem in ...
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 ...
‘We are united’: NYC Jewish, Muslim community members commemorate Auschwitz liberation
The memory of the Holocaust reminds us that the seeds of hatred must be confronted wherever they appear,” CAM Chief ...
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 ...
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A gift shop at Auschwitz? New films and a graphic memoir explore the contradictions of ‘dark tourism’
He is both impressed by the efforts made by the German curators to focus on “the nexus of German cruelty and Jewish suffering” (unlike the Polish guides at Auschwitz, where he learns “mostly ...
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'We honour the six million Jews and millions of others murdered in the Holocaust'
As readers will know it marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration ...