Posts Tagged: Auschwitz
Resolve and Optimism Between Yom Hashoah and Israel’s National Holidays
JNS.org - When I was debating whether to join a command course in the army, my late grandmother Esther told me, “In Auschwitz, we didn’t...
Anti-Israel Protesters Disrupt Holocaust Remembrance Day Event at Auschwitz
Anti-Israel protesters on Monday disrupted an event at Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi concentration camp in Poland, commemorating the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust...
Italian Jewish Holocaust Survivor and Senator Speaks of ‘Deep Melancholy’ Following Hamas Pogrom in Israel
The 92-year-old Holocaust survivor who sits as a senator in the Italian parliament on Tuesday spoke of her anguish following the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom...
British Jewish Teens Place Posters of Remaining Hamas Hostages on Train Tracks Outside Auschwitz
During a tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau this week, a group of Jewish school students from the UK placed photos of the nearly 200 remaining hostages held...
X Deletes Holocaust Denial Posts After Initially Allowing Them as Auschwitz Museum’s Frustration Grows
X, the online platform formerly called Twitter, this week removed multiple antisemitic posts promoting Holocaust denial that were flagged by the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum...
Why Are Jews Attacking Andrew Cuomo?
JNS.org - It’s a sign of just how dumb our community can be that when Andrew Cuomo announced that he intends to fight antisemitism with...
What I Saw as a Jewish Teen Visiting Poland
During Thanksgiving break, I had the privilege of taking a trip to Poland with my father. We visited Krakow, Warsaw, Lublin, and Łódź. As someone...
Halina Silber, Holocaust Survivor Saved by Oskar Schindler, Dies at Age 93
Helen "Halina" Silber, who attributed surviving the Holocaust to being transferred from Auschwitz to an ammunition and enamelware factory owned by the German industrialist, Oskar...
Auschwitz Was Not Bombed Because the World Didn’t Care
On March 5, 1943, the British air force bombed and destroyed a Krupp facility that produced artillery detonators (fuses) in the city of Essen, Germany....
Why We Must Remember the Holocaust Correctly
Three words loom large in our Holocaust remembrance: Arbeit macht frei, usually translated as "work will make you free." Ironically, they had little to do with the...
Israel ‘Bombs Auschwitz’
JNS.org - It has often been said that if only the State of Israel had existed in the 1940s, it could have bombed Auschwitz, interrupting...
In Rare Footage, Israeli Astronaut and War Hero Ilan Ramon Shares Motivation as Son of Auschwitz Survivor
Ilan Ramon — who became the first Israeli astronaut and served a fighter pilot in the Israel Air Force during the 1981 raid on the...
David Dushman, Last Surviving Auschwitz Liberator, Dies Aged 98
i24 News - David Dushman, the last surviving soldier who took part in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in 1945, has...
Children of Polish WW2 Hero Capt. Witold Pilecki Condemn Appointment of Hardline Nationalist to Auschwitz Museum Council
The son and granddaughters of one of Poland's legendary World War II resistance heroes have joined a searing attack on the Polish government's recent decision...
